Jupiter (plus Callisto's shadow), 6/6/2020 00:40 (GMT+3)

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I recently got back into Astronomy and planetary astrophotography (now thinking about taking a dive into deep-sky by getting a HEQ5-Pro and Evostar 80ED).

This is my best attempt so far at Jupiter.

It was taken from my front-yard. The seeing conditions weren't ideal, but not the worst.

The black dot on Jupiter is a shadow being cast onto it by Callisto.

Equipment:

• Telescope: Skywatcher 250p FlexTube (manual dob)
• Camera: Canon 550D (T2i)
• 2X Barlow

Process:

1. I took four 20sec videos of Jupiter using Movie Crop Mode (50fps) while trying to keep Jupiter in frame.
2. Using PiPP, I aligned the videos so that Jupiter is actually centered in each frame.
3. Using Registax, I stacked the best 42% of the frames, and played around with the wavelets and RGB balance / align.
4. I did a tiny bit of noise reduction in Photoshop.

Clear skies to all!

[tooth_dr]

Awesome. 

[Uplooker]

Very well done, great image👍

[Kyle Allen]

Very nice image. It’s not easy with a manual Dobsonian 👍

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Thank you, all! 😀

[MarkAR]

Excellent image. Well done.

[Pete Presland]

Lovely capture, a transit and the GRS visible.