First image of Jupiter this season

[ejwwest]

Taken with DFK21AU618 with a 2x Barlow on Celestron EdgeHD 925. Stacked with AS2 and crudely used wavelets in Registax 6.

Jupiter by ejwwest, on Flickr

[Atlas]

Great first shot, keep em coming.

[JamesF]

Looks pretty good. A touch too much gain, perhaps?

James

[Atlas]

Looks pretty good. A touch too much gain, perhaps?

James

He may have done that to get the moon in the same shot.

[JamesF]

Good point. It probably wouldn't be possible to pick that up otherwise.

James

[ejwwest]

Looks pretty good. A touch too much gain, perhaps?

James

Thanks. I was trying to maximise the frame rate at around 60 fps but maybe I need to optimise around differemt settings. I'm still trying to get the hang of the various camera settings and the stacking and image processing software. Hence the colours and the artefacts on the image may be someway away from objective reality! But the detail seems to be vastly better than at the tail end of last season when I'd just bought the DFK and Jupiter was a smaller object. I'll keep trying over the next few weeks assuming the weather isn't as wet as it has been since April!

[Freddie]

Try RGB align in R6 and that should help to remove the red and blue offset on the edge of the moon and planet.

[JamesF]

Thanks. I was trying to maximise the frame rate at around 60 fps but maybe I need to optimise around differemt settings. I'm still trying to get the hang of the various camera settings and the stacking and image processing software. Hence the colours and the artefacts on the image may be someway away from objective reality! But the detail seems to be vastly better than at the tail end of last season when I'd just bought the DFK and Jupiter was a smaller object. I'll keep trying over the next few weeks assuming the weather isn't as wet as it has been since April!

Yes, the current weather doesn't really lend itself to much experimentation

James

[ejwwest]

Try RGB align in R6 and that should help to remove the red and blue offset on the edge of the moon and planet.

I did try that in R6 (the "estimate" function anyway) and it really messed things up! At midnight I wasn't too keen on too much playing around, but will try again.

[ejwwest]

Here's another one from last night:

Jupiter by ejwwest, on Flickr

[ejwwest]

And without a Barlow showing Callisto, Io and Ganymede:

Jupiter with three moons by ejwwest, on Flickr

[sologuitarist61]

Very nice image