Jupiter with a 80mm F5 Frac

[OXO]

Setup the scope for Jupiter last night under pea soup conditions the sky was Orange with the glow from the lights below and mixed in with the high clouds and mist hehe.

But as seeing anything our days other than clouds i thought i would look at Jupiter with the Celestron 80mm Frac. Watching the Moons do there dance over a couple of hours was Fun so i managed to get this image after observeing.

Toucam Pro2 Sc1.5

2X Barlow(Orion shorty 3-Element)

Frames 200

Photoshopped

Quite pleased with the Result esp for the 80mm Frac

James

[russ]

blumming heck :shock: thats superb. the image scale and complete lack of false colour are amazing for the type of scope. In fact you have less false colour and larger scale than i had with 100ED and 5x powermate. I've seen some images taken with the 80ED and they can't match that.....nice job! And you have a gem of a scope.

Russ

[OXO]

Cheers Russ, the image scale was gained by pulling the 2Barlow out of the Diagonal(About half way) also the Diagonal was out of the Focuser 1/4 of the way too he he this helped greatly with the image scale. False colour was beaten by lowering the Saturation in the Camera settings and Manually setting the White Balance to an acceptable level of colour.

Should also add i was imaging at 5FPS this really does help(At least me) with the resulting image from the stack certainly more defined and resolution is better, you do lose out on the amount of frames to stack but the ones you capture are better ones and i guess thats what matters?..

The Scope is deff a little Gem..

Thanks

James

[Jamie]

Told ya that scope in the right hands was a belter.

[geppetto]

Agreed

Given the scope and conditions, you nabbed a realy fine image James

Love the colours 8)

[OXO]

Thanks Jamie/Geppetto,

The scope is excellent never fails to impress me be it imaging or observing 8)

James

[Naz]

Belter James, superb result from that scope.

naz

[OXO]

Thank you Naz

[OXO]

[OXO]

Thank you Caz

Yes the colours worked well

James

[Jamie]

Do you reckon that one of the darker spots in the middle of the image

is maybe a moon shadow?

[OXO]

Could be Jamie, i'll have a check later the positions of the Moons that should let us know..

Well spotted mate.

James

[MartinB]

Amazing James. Great tremendous detail for a little scope. sometime murky conditions can provide good seeing.

I've tried doing a comparison between 5 10 and 15 fps but none had enough detail to allow a comparison.

[OXO]

Cheers Martin

Iam convinced about the 5FPS imaging every image i have ever got has been better at 5fps than 10fps and 15fps just ends up blocky with poor resolution imho..

James

[GazOC]

Quite pleased with the Result esp for the 80mm Frac

James

I'm not surpised!! It's a damn site better than I get with my Mak.... :)

[OXO]

I'm not surpised!! It's a damn site better than I get with my Mak....

:shock: Just bad luck matey thats all

James

[Rob]

Nice going there James. Very impresed with that result.

[GazOC]

I'm not surpised!! It's a damn site better than I get with my Mak....

:shock: Just bad luck matey thats all

James

Grrrrrr.......

[OXO]

Thanks Rob

Gaz, i'll swap ya for ya Mak then

[GazOC]

Gaz, i'll swap ya for ya Mak then

Get your own!! Oh, you have.......

[OXO]

:)

[Mick.G.]

Great image James.The colour really stands out well+plenty of detail.

Mick.

[OXO]

Thanks Mick

James :jupiter:

[mark RD]

great pic James and even better edit :jupiter:

RD

[OXO]

Thank you Mark

Hope to get some views of Jup's at the SP next week

James