First time capturing the Great Red Spot.

[Nigella Bryant]

Not seen the Great Red Spot since I was 15, that's well, a long time ago, lol. Anyway the weather was not the best with gusts of 30mph. I'm still getting to grips with the camera, scope, mount and settings, etc, etc. That's my excuse on this planetary imaging journey, lol. C11 plus 2.5x powermate, Zwo Asi 462mc. 10,000 frames with 20% stack. Software used, Autostakker3, registax6 and photoMS for colour tweak. 

 

 

 

Edited November 29, 2023 by Nigella Bryant

[Sunshine]

Wonderful images! the details are creamy and abundant, the spot looks like a spot!

[Roy Foreman]

I too saw the GRS for the first time last night. Have yet to process my images but I doubt they will be as good as yours. Excellent work.

[Nigella Bryant]

3 hours ago, Sunshine said:

Wonderful images! the details are creamy and abundant, the spot looks like a spot!

Thanks Sunshine, a new learning curve for me but some of my solar imaging techniques are transferable thankfully. 

[Nigella Bryant]

2 hours ago, Roy Foreman said:

I too saw the GRS for the first time last night. Have yet to process my images but I doubt they will be as good as yours. Excellent work.

Thanks Roy, much appreciated. Get those images processed and posted, lol. I've still yet to process several others. Hopefully get around to doing a few derotated and stacked in Winjupos. 

[Mr Spock]

Lovely images. GRS stands out quite well 👍

[carastro]

Great results.

[Nigella Bryant]

1 hour ago, Mr Spock said:

Lovely images. GRS stands out quite well 👍

Thanks Mr Spock, much appreciated. 

[Nigella Bryant]

36 minutes ago, carastro said:

Great results.

Thanks Carole, still getting to grips with planetary imaging, not my area of imaging but now I've got everything working after soooo long getting equipment together. Getting the Eq8 R Pro was worth every penny for my C11. 

[geoflewis]

These are excellent Nigella. Your processing is very good, with good colour balance and lots of detail coming through.

[JeremyS]

Excellent work Nigella 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

I hope you will be sharing your work with John Rogers of the BAA Jupiter section.

[Nigella Bryant]

19 minutes ago, geoflewis said:

These are excellent Nigella. Your processing is very good, with good colour balance and lots of detail coming through.

Thanks Geoff, much appreciated. 

[Nigella Bryant]

1 minute ago, JeremyS said:

Excellent work Nigella 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

I hope you will be sharing your work with John Rogers of the BAA Jupiter section.

Thanks Jeremy, much appreciated and encouraging. Yes, I'm going to share with John Rogers. Not sure they're up to some of the standards of the Jupiter section though, lol. 

[dweller25]

Great image  @Nigella Bryant was that taken 25/11/23 around 19:45 ?

[Nigella Bryant]

46 minutes ago, dweller25 said:

Great image  @Nigella Bryant was that taken 25/11/23 around 19:45 ?

Hiya, no, it was 27th @ 23.51UT. 

[Space Cowboy]

Wow! Nigella these are the best Jupiter images I've seen on this forum in 2023! The natural detail is simply awesome! Its been mentioned about oversampling at f25 but its certainly not done you any harm.

Couldn't resist another tweak on your colour balance (auto rgb balance in registax) and also enhanced colour vibrance in image analyser :

 

 

[Nigella Bryant]

54 minutes ago, Space Cowboy said:

Wow! Nigella these are the best Jupiter images I've seen on this forum in 2023! The natural detail is simply awesome! Its been mentioned about oversampling at f25 but its certainly not done you any harm.

Couldn't resist another tweak on your colour balance (auto rgb balance in registax) and also enhanced colour vibrance in image analyser :

 

 

Thanks, much appreciated, I'm still practicing, lol. Much better colour.