Jupiter and Galileans 14 Sept 9pm

[Nik271]

This is yet another attempt at Jupiter, not easy for me as it rises over a roof at culmination (about 8:30pm) and the thermals make it dance.

This time I was using the Skymax 180 without a barlow and the image is small, so I decided to make a composite with the Galilean moons.

The moons are a single overexposed frame on Canon 250D so are a bit bloated while Jupiter is from the best 30% of 2000 frames stacked in AS!3 and then sharpened. I used Gimp to make the composite and judged the tilt of Jupiter by eye, so it may not be 100% accurate. Anyway here it is. It's pretty close to what I can see at the eyepiece at around 150x 

May this clear spell continue!

Nikolay

[MarkAR]

Superb image Nikolay.

[maw lod qan]

Very nice! I try to explain to friends how amazing it is to see those 4 moons and the way they travel, almost before your eyes!