Jupiter 17th April

[Nick Smith]

HI all

No Saturn from last night because it was cloudy early on, but my struggle with Jupiter continues.

Maybe a slight improvement, but there's not much in it.

Details: SPX 200 Newt @ f24, toucam Pro 2 min AVI@ 10fps.

Right I'm off now to swap my ED100 for a C8.

Regards

Nick

[FLO]

Some nice surface detail there Nick

[Naz]

Good one Nick, plenty of detail

naz

[radioactive]

very good image of Jupiter I looked at it myself last night 16-17th through C8 orange tube inspiring stuff

[The Warthog]

Not a bad image at all! Much better than I've been seeing visually. Keep trying until your happy with it, then keep trying some more.

[CELESCOPE]

good one Nick , like the image , nice and smooth and blimey the detail is good mate ,thats the trouble now heheeh we always not happy with our results,

Rog

[OXO]

Nice image of Jupier that Nick!

[Saso]

Very nice image. Lot of details and nice colours.

Saso

[MartinB]

Good image Nick. very difficult to pull any more out I would have thought. Interested that you went for 2 mins. I was under the impression that 45 secs was about the limit with Jupiter because of it's speed of rotation but maybe that's not the case. Would love to go for longer and get in more frames. Also interested that you use 10fps, do you find this the best compromise between number of frames and compression?

[Nick Smith]

Good image Nick. very difficult to pull any more out I would have thought. Interested that you went for 2 mins. I was under the impression that 45 secs was about the limit with Jupiter because of it's speed of rotation but maybe that's not the case. Would love to go for longer and get in more frames. Also interested that you use 10fps, do you find this the best compromise between number of frames and compression?

Hi Martin

You would do well to get anything done in 45secs, especially if you are using RGB filters.

Jupiter rotates about 0.3 arc secs per 60 seconds. The Dawes limit for resolution for an 8" scope is 0.6 arc secs. So, given perfect seeing with an 8" scope you should be able to image for two minutes without any blurring of the features. Of course, we don't have perfect seeing with Jupiter so you could probably take even longer AVIs.

10 fps? I don't know. I have only looked at Jupiter twice this year, and it maybe that using a higher frame rate and stacking more images produces better results.

Regards

Nick

[MartinB]

Thanks Nick. I'll go for longer captures then. So far have stuck to 35 secs with Jupiter and images have been carp

[GazOC]

Cracking pictures Nick, something to aspire to......