Jupiter 2018-05-06

[PhotoGav]

I had a fun session trying to image Jupiter on Sunday evening. Half satisfied with the results, but am working on strategies to improve image quality. Top of the list is to wait until Jupiter is higher in the sky...!

Equipment used - 10" Thomas Cooke refractor & ZWO ASI 120-MC-S. All 90 second captures with 25% frames stacked. Processing in AS!3, Registax 6 & Photoshop CC.

First up - 23:23, Ganymede transiting with Io in the far right

Next - 00:27, the GRS is well placed and Ganymede has moved off the disk

Finally, 00:58, an attempt at adding a 2.5x Powermate into the chain, however the seeing was not really steady enough to get away with it

[Freddie]

Nice. I would add another 60 secs to your capture time as at that image scale you are not going to have any issues with rotation.

[PhotoGav]

19 minutes ago, Freddie said:

Nice. I would add another 60 secs to your capture time as at that image scale you are not going to have any issues with rotation.

Thanks Freddie, I will give longer captures a go next time.

[Pete Presland]

Nice set of images.