First picture of Jupiter and its Galilean moons :)

[Nadine2704]

Decided that I wasn't going to let the fact that I don't own any fancy photography equipment stop me from getting a photo of Jupiter; I'm a bit stubborn like that

My picture is NOTHING compared to the fantastic images I've seen on here.  I'm not even sure if it's what Jupiter is meant to look like, but I put my newbie skills to the test and got this:
 

I used an 8" Dobson with a 25mm EP and a 2x Barlow.  I dug out my old compact Samsung camera, zoomed in a bit, held it to the eyepiece and took an 11 second video... despite my best efforts to stay still, my hand had other ideas!  I downloaded Registax, and have no idea what I did... I should've perhaps read a tutorial on how to use it, but I tend to always go in all guns blazing, so why change the habit of a lifetime!  I messed about with it for a bit, but my image still looked pretty poor once I was done, so I just changed the exposure slightly on some free online photo editor thingy, et voila - I got something that will hopefully pass as an adequate first attempt at photographing Jupiter!

If anyone has any tips on how to get the best out of a compact camera, or how to edit pictures properly, they'd be much appreciated!

[Nadine2704]

Oh dear, just looked at it on my phone and it looks very greeny/yellow.  My computer screen was much kinder!!

[Nadine2704]

Tried de-saturating it a bit.  Hmmm, my photo-editing skills leave a lot to be desired!!

 

[baggywrinkle]

That is still very good.

[Alien 13]

You are getting good at the photography game and its always worth having a go, nicely focused btw.

Alan

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Congratulations, for a short video using a dob that's really very good!

You should definitely be pleased with it.

[tekkydave]

That's a fantastic image and I like your technique.

[rjc404]

Considering you're holding the camera next to the eyepiece that's a great effort. Before I got my camera adapter I could never manage anything resembling a planet if  I tried an a-focal shot through an eyepiece.

[wxsatuser]

If thats handheld........thats very good......well done.

[Nadine2704]

Thanks guys!

I'm incredibly surprised that my camera even managed to pick up any detail on the planet.  I spent about 2 hours trying in vain to take a picture using both my phone and my compact camera, but as you can imagine, all I was getting was a bright blur with four smaller bright blurs next to it.  I was just about to give up when I decided to try taking a video instead, and I was actually shocked when I zoomed in and a couple of the bands appeared very faintly on the screen!  I even managed to get some detail on a video I took using my phone, which I wasn't expecting at all... technology these days!

[Kirscovitch]

For an afocal shot that is pretty darned good.

[iksobarg]

And you were going to tell us which moon was which??

hmm?

Awesome for handheld, even. I doubt anyone would have suspected as much.

Can only get better \o/