Afocal Jupiter with Europa transit

[george7378]

Hi everyone,

Last night was very dew-filled and the seeing was quite bad, but still, my first astro-photo with my new scope is better than all of my others - this was from about 400 frames of HD video with my Lumix and 250PX:

[beamish]

Good catch !! like it !

[part timer]

Fantastic!

[Altair40]

Ah, I was wondering where that went last night. I observed only three moons.

All below is a BTW, so please disregard:

One day, I'll try imaging. Given enough pure cash!

The best I could do right now is to piggy back an old 'analogue' SLR on my tiny scope and set it to infinity...

So many areas in Astronomy.

Solar film and tinning wires are next after I have some idea of what is proverbally where!

I have done quite a lot of image analysis but pretty much all of it down a microscope.

If you can drive a TEM (Transmission Electron Microscope), you know all about very dark negatives and how to develop the best out of them.

Everyone seems to use digital imaging here, so you can stack and process. That seems to me to be the only way. Loads of data.

[george7378]

Yes - I could only see one moon at one point, then another two simultaneously appeared from in front of the bright disc, closely followed by Io which went from nothing to a bright yellow dot in a matter of seconds as it emerged from Jupiter's shadow - I can't believe how quick the sunrise was. I can only imagine how spectacular it was from Io's volcanic surface.

These images were taken with a £150 Panasonic camera held up to my 10" scope's eyepiece with a £20 bracket - I have no specialised imagers or even a DSLR - it is very cheap and produces some great results - if you want cheap imaging, go afocal and stack videos to get nice results.