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Jupiter 11 June 2006 SPX 200


Nick Smith

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Now that's got me going Steve. With the OMC140 I can see a very wobbly image with slightly more detail than Nick's image, with the Newt I can see quite a bit more detail. Neither of them will let me do imaging within a mile of Nick's images though. I think that my eyes are doing the image stabilisation / adaptive optics thing and I really want that technology attached to my DSLR. I find it VERY frustrating when I am lining the 'scope up and I can see marvelous views, grab the camera and it won't focus, the image wobbles and deforms and the image just doesn't happen.

I guess I'm a "trophy" kind of guy, I want to be able to remind myself of the event.

What kind of 'scope were you using Steve?

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What kind of 'scope were you using Steve?

Reflectors, refractors, maks and SCTs - the largest being a 10" Newtonian.

I put it down to Jupiter being low - I have never seen thru the eyepiece the same level of texture/swirls between the belts as shown in Nicks image.

Does anyone?

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Twice. Once, with the 24" Clark on Mars Hill at Lowell. Stunning night, "private" showing. Once through a 10" Mike Spooner scope at the All Arizona Star Party south of my house, at the feet of Kitt Peak.

Both were absolutely stunning, knock yer socks off views. The 10" was actually better. :scratch: Both showed more detail than Knick's image, (sorry), but we were able to crank up the power over 700x too, so no big deal.

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Has anyone seen detail similar to Nicks image 'thru the eyepiece'?

Steve, the Skywatcher 8" reflector gave as good views using it at Breakon(SGL star party) iam sure Caz would agree? and this was with the Meade Zoom eyepiece. As with all Astronomical objects experiance at the eyepiece helps.

James

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