Jupiter, 1st attempt

[Steve C]

Hello all, my first attempt at the mighty Jupiter with a Toucam, even got Io's transit shadow. Well, I say my first attempt, I'd been faffing about with the toucam for some time, however on finding a very useful tutorial on this very site, I was determined to give it a proper go.

I ended up with about 16Gb of video! I tried all sorts of stuff, with filters, without, 2 x barlow, 3x barlow etc.

Suffice to say 4 hours went by like a flash, I didnt even notice the cold!

After trawling through what I had, came up with this one, registax'ed accordingly voila.

This one was taken with a 2x barlow using the SPX

Feedback would be most welcome.

[rll1288]

Looks pretty good to me....

my attempt was pretty washed out and brought home to me I need a new mount that can hold the track (manual at the moment )

Roy

[Armsoft]

Looks pretty good to me too, good colour definition which I`m really struggling to get at the moment.

Mark

[rawhead]

First attempt!

GRS, shadow transit and plenty of detail...

Well done

Cheers

[oakwell]

great work

[tooth_dr]

First attempt!

GRS, shadow transit and plenty of detail...

Precisely that he said, that is a fantastic image, nevermind your first!

[Clayton]

Excellent start

[red dwalf]

you look to be a natural at this.

well done lovely colours

[Steve C]

Thanks for all the feedback to date, its really encouraging to read what others have to say about my efforts, I'd like to think it wasnt more luck than judgement!

Should the clouds clear for long enough I think we've got a bit more of Jupiter yet before it gets visual only, fingers crossed.

[spaceboy]

Great image you must be over the moon.... with it.

My first attempt I tried B&W imaging thinking I'd get more contrast ETC but yours has easily come out better than my effort plus the colours make it more pleasing to the eye.

Well done

[Astrokev]

Great shot. Hard to believe this is your first go!