First Jupiter with a 2x barlow

[Josh Wilson]

I was able to get my camera problem figured out so you can ignore the topic below about it. These images were taken with a Orion Solar System Color Imager and 2x Celestron Barlow.

Stacked with Registax 6, wavelets done in RS6, and RGB align done in RS6.

[hud549]

Do you have any examples of jupiter without stacking, the images look pretty impressive. I'm looking at buying a new scope?

Thanks

[Josh Wilson]

I do, but the camera makes them look worse than with just your eye through the scope. I'll post a picture from the avi anyway:

[Alan_B]

Glad you got your problem sorted Josh - just read your other post . Did the Orion folk sort it for you ?

Anyhow nice images , I assume you manually tracked Jupiter yourself with your Dob which is all the more impressive well done

[VigdisVZ]

Looks really good to me. Keep up the good work, and thanks for sharing some nice pictures.

[Josh Wilson]

Did the Orion folk sort it for you ?

Anyhow nice images , I assume you manually tracked Jupiter yourself with your Dob which is all the more impressive well done

They didn't even email me back yet actually. But I realized I had to get the exposure bar down to anywhere between 2 and 6. The maximum is 255. I can't imagine what that would be for, Uranus, maybe Neptune.

And yes I did do this with Dobby. I just let Jupiter drift through the FOV because when I track, the final stacked image comes out with ghosts all over the place. I thought of positioning the camera a a different angle to get more frames in the time it takes for Jupiter to drift through the FOV. I've got all the settings right, just need a bit of fine tuning on the processing maybe.

Thanks all for the comments and thanks for looking.

Josh

[hud549]

Thanks for taking the time to upload this single frame, as I'm new to astrophotography it does highlight the difference after stacking.

Looks like a PC upgrade maybe required from my netbook.

[hud549]

Thanks for taking the time to upload this single frame, as I'm new to astrophotography it does highlight the difference after stacking.

Looks like a PC upgrade maybe required from my netbook.

[atmenterprises]

I was able to get my camera problem figured out so you can ignore the topic below about it. These images were taken with a Orion Solar System Color Imager and 2x Celestron Barlow.

Stacked with Registax 6, wavelets done in RS6, and RGB align done in RS6.

That's some nice shooting with a dob!