Astrophotography Help

[UnboxingReviews1997]

vHi Folks,

 

Had a good session last night with my Celestron NexStar 130SLT last night. I took my point and shoot camera and mounted it to the scope and took some cool pictures, but it wasn't quite able to pick out the small details. If you look very closely on the jupiter pics you can make out faint and i mean faint rings and you can see andromeda on the other pictures but that is extremely faint (you can see M31 in the middle of the screen). Anyways I just wanted to ask could i use any photo editing software to bring out the details on the pictures to make them more visible, or do you recommend any settings on the camera to change to bring them out better. I am using a Mac computer. Links are below to see the pictures.

 

M31 Galaxy:-

- Pic 1 http://bit.ly/OeocNg

- Pic 2 http://bit.ly/1kbuOau

- Pic 3 http://bit.ly/1cPoaBr

 

Jupiter:-

- Pic 1 http://bit.ly/1fQvnXO

- Pic 2 http://bit.ly/1iubzvq

 

Regards,

 

Ben

[knobby]

You could try an image editor to maybe boost the contrast or adjust levels maybe ?

[Davey-T]

Was this through an eyepiece ?

Dave

[Langy]

I would have thought that Jupiter you may get a little more detail out but not much.

With Andromeda I think you will really struggle, if they are RAW images you can gain a bit more, but I think you need longer exposures and by the looks of your galaxy images you have a lot of LP to start with.

Webcam will be by far better on Jupiter.