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Jupiter and the Galilean Moons 26/3/2017


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Last night was a beautiful night to image Jupiter and it's moons. After I took low exposures to get more detail on Jupiter (1/625 seconds) I bumped it up to 1/10 seconds to get the moons.

I took the images with a Celestron 114 LCM 4.5" reflector and a Neximage Burst as the camera.

The image is 2000 frames and was stacked and processed with Registax 6.1.

Thank you and clear skies!

Adam

jupiter17 pro.jpg

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10 minutes ago, knobby said:

Very nice, if you use the histogram in capture software, aim for about 70% fill and you should see more detail on planet surface, all down to personal taste obviously.

Hi Knobby, Thank you I will definitely try out the histogram feature. Next time I'm out.

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Nicely presented image :) As mentioned if you want to get the planet and the moons in the same shot you can use short exposure video to get detail on jupiter, and then use a longer exposure video to get the moons, stack and sharpen separately then combine the two in post processing.  What software are you using?

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Hello and thanks Craig, I am using Registax 6.1 for stacking and processing. I am looking at maybe switching to Autostakkert for stacking but I might stay with Registax for the moment as it's easy to navigate through for beginners like me. I do have images such as my profile image currently that are focused on detail for Jupiter which could be used for the short/long exposure combo. But I want to try out the histogram feature that a fellow user mentioned above as it is said to up the detail on planets. Is it big difference if you use the histogram or not?

Thanks and clear skies!

Adam.

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