First ever Jupiter Images

[catman161]

I have never done imaging before but last night managed to grab some avis of Jupiter before clud ruined play. Equipment; 200P, NEQ6 Pro, Philips SPC900NC with IR/UV cut filter and TV 2x 2 inch Powermate. So here are all 4 images (The whole set) from my first night attempting imaging. Hope you like them, any advice apreciated. These were all taken from my city centre, light polluted back yard.

First image is the one from the other thread (best 95% of 742 frames)

Second image is 2388 of 3600 frames (I left the camera running and went inside and forgot about it-oops!)

Third image is 1086 of 6000 frames ( did it again, this tme drinking tea-I need to put the frame limit function on I know )

Fourth image is only 137 of 1000 frames

Cheers

[si@nite]

Nice sharp images, think you could of even pushed the fl higher, 2-3mins runs perfectly ok but keep the cam at 10fps is best!

[catman161]

Thanks Yep I kept it at 10FPS. I don't mess with the settings to much at the moment.

[JamesF]

They look very nice to me.

James

[DrRobin]

Very nice first capture, nice and sharp and it is never easy to get the moons and Jupiter without over-exposing on Jupiter.

Which software did you use to stack and did you use drizzle?

Robin

[Memory Bliss]

Wow, they are awesome for first images.

[catman161]

Thanks for comments everyone-much appreciated. I use registax 5.1 to stack and I am not sure what drizzle is so I am guessing I didn't use it

[JamesF]

Drizzle is one of the options in AutoStakkert!2. I've not had a lot of success using it myself. I think it benefits from images that are reasonably high resolution to start with.

James

[catman161]

Cool thanks James

[JamesF]

I've just been reading up on drizzle. What I failed to appreciate about it is that it only works for undersampled images. That is, when the resolution of the camera is not as high as the resolution of the scope. For my planetary images with the 127 Mak I know I am definitely oversampling, so drizzle is unlikely to do anything for me. If you're imaging using a 200P, the chances are that you will be undersampling with an SPC900 unless you're using barlows to get the focal ratio up to around f/20.

James