1st Jupiter and proud

[TopHouse]

I have to say I am REALLY proud of this, it's my first go at Jupiter, the cloud cleared tonight for just long enough, I did two sets of avi's one has a decent Jupiter and just shows the moons, I altered gain to bring up the moons better for a second, then did a cut & paste job to put my decent Jupiter with my decent moons.

The three pics below show the two separates and the combined version.

[TopHouse]

Looking at all 3 together now, think I might try moving the moons to the better Jupiter so I can keep that nice black sky.

[Ibbo!]

A cracking 1st Jove

and I see you managed to catch the GRS

As Tophouse said regarding the moons and a dark background would look nice

Steve

[TopHouse]

Done a little jiggerdypokery and am happier with it this time :-

[Ibbo!]

Thats the one

What time did you take these and what kit?

I'm just ding some stacks myself

[TopHouse]

I took it at around 1:45 am, and it's using my skywatcher 200p with a skywatcher 2x barlow and a toucam with flashed firmware to spc900.

[ezza123]

Double thumbs up! impressive

[lukebl]

Really nice images. Far, far better than my first images with the same kit!

[jgs001]

Excellent images, much better than any of my Jupiters to date.

[Demonperformer]

XLNT images ... i look forward to your next offerings

[Clayton]

Very nice first image. I reckon your setup will handle a bit more scale (3x Barlow, or extension tubes) seeing permitting

[TopHouse]

Excellent images, much better than any of my Jupiters to date.

I consider that VERY high praise John, I've only had my laptop a little over a week and this is probably about my 5/6th ever toucam capture and I credit you with a lot of my learning, especially with regards moon.

Thanks for the other comments guys.

[Gy Stargazer]

Very nice. I like the jiggerdypokery pic when all combined.

[nibber]

Very impressive,i am patiently waiting to use my Celestron NextImage ccd for the first time,just loaded the software on the laptop and had to download the Philips SPC 900 software to run it on Windows 7 (as per Celestrons instructions) so it would recognise the camera (must be a Philips camera/clone i assume).

Regards nibber

[TopHouse]

I highly recommend you install WcCtrl though as the philips control interface is awful, it doesn't give any actual figures for shutter speed etc, WcCtrl does AND it allows you to save multiple templates of settings so you can have base settings for say moon, and planets pre configured. It's free and very good. link here :-

http://www.burri-web.org/bm98/

[LukeSkywatcher]

Looking at all 3 together now, think I might try moving the moons to the better Jupiter so I can keep that nice black sky.

Sounds like a plan.

Ah i see you have already done it. It looks great.

[Black Knight]

Excellent stuff. I'm still waiting for the opportunity to try my hand at Jupiter. All this waiting for a clear night is starting to get tedious now . If my first attempt were to turn out only a fraction as good as yours, I would be grinning like a Cheshire cat

[TopHouse]

My naked arm waving screaming dance didn't go down well with the neighbours so the grin might be a better idea

[rawhead]

First try

Plenty of detail, well done

Cheers

Jon

[msinclairinork]

Thats a cracker! I would be proud of that too!

[TopHouse]

I even just caught GRS which was a bonus, the cloud was thick last night and my comp is next to a window, I keep looking out and tutting, then last night, i looked out and saw this lovely bright 'star'. Instantly the scope was out and the laptop on a dining chair, no scope cool down even, total time outside before the cloud came back was about 1 hr 15 mins, so it makes it even more of a bonus that it came out as well as it did.

[Specman]

Fantastic picture. You should be very proud of it! Not even had a peep at Jupiter yet due to all the cloud and poor seeing conditions!

Well done you

Clear skies!

Mark

[Polar Bear]

Excellent images. I managed an hour on Jupiter last night before the clouds came (again) my first good view of it through a scope and it looked beautiful. Great that you caught it so well. One night for you to remember.

[Clayton]

Great Shot!

I had a little play (I hope you don't mind?)

I notice there are 4 other things that look like moons as well .

One at 4 o'clock one at 10:30 and one at 12 o'clock and one at 1 o'clock. If you can check the ephemeris you may be able to confirm this and identify them.

Although another play reveals that the last 2 have trailed and may be stars?

[Psychobilly]

Excellent first shot or not it's magnificent

Peter...