Jupiter with moons 03 Jan 2012

[speckles]

A clear night after the storms, so had a first go of the year at Jupiter before it disappears for a while.

19:30 U.T. 03 Jan 2012

Mak 127 SLT, SPC900

Jup_20120103_1930_30c_moons.bmp

[pixueto]

Well done! That's got to be one of the best Jupiters I've seen. How do you manage to get the moons? Any tips?

[si@nite]

Nice detail well done.

[tich]

Superb shot

[speckles]

Well done! That's got to be one of the best Jupiters I've seen. How do you manage to get the moons? Any tips?

Thanks - I admit I was rather pleased considering the wind was still blowing quite strongly.

When I set up the exposure in WxAstrocapture, I could see that the moons were being recorded, although faintly - my main concern obviously being not to overexpose Jupiter. After processing through Registax and Photoshop as normal the moons were not visible.

I ran the avi file through VirtualDub with increased contrast / brightness settings to show the moons on the output file (with a bleached-out Jupiter). Used Registax on this avi to produce an image which I then put into Photoshop and erased Jupiter. Copied this image and pasted it into a 'difference' layer on top of the good Jupiter image. There was obviously a bit of tinkering about on the way to get it looking more or less right, but that's pretty much it.

[Clayton]

Nice result