Jupiter June 18 2019

[Natty Bumpo]

This is my first attempt at planetary imaging.

Captured with Nikon D810 behind a 12.5 mm KK Orthoscopic mounted in my Meade LXD75 8 SCT.

1/8 second ISO 800

[Tommohawk]

That's very nice! Is that a single image? Have you tried stacking multiple images?

[Natty Bumpo]

This us a single frame. 

I use CS5 to add a 1 pixel  blur to smooth the image to taste and increased saturation a tiny bit.

I did capture about 20 frames but at this point I  am stacking by hand and the stack did not look as good as the single frame. I realize more data and stacking will help. I also need to improve my focus. The sky would not tolerate more magnification than the 12.5 KK would provide. Which was around 160X  if my calculation is correct. It may be a tad more with the camera.

The sky was mitigated by the moon on this night as well as mediocre seeing conditions.

 

Thank you for looking and commenting

 

 

[Pete Presland]

Superb single frame capture!

[Natty Bumpo]

Jupiter 7 13 2019.

Meade LXD75 8

NIKON D 810

PRIME.

[MarsG76]

Very good start... better than my first results... keep imaging and honing your skills.