Jupiter, Jul 16th

This is a joint venture shot.
Taken along with my cousin, who was told how to set the DMK's IC Capture parameters and took care of capturing, whereas I did the processing. Nice one, since he never did anything like this.
I parked my G-11 and C11 on his Monte Redondo, Leiria country side home where we were able to glimpse an almost perfect sky, just 20km away from my urban polluted and poor seeing sky. Remember the famous "Oh my God, it's full of stars...!"? Right! We could even see the Milky Way... Amazing sky.
We celebrated this session with this Jupiter picture:

(c) JC - Jul/09

Jupiter & Ganymede animation Jul 8th

First time out since Lymax Cat Cooler purchase and clear skies, on July 8th.
Mirror was brought to ambient temperature just as advertised and Jupiter was just there, waiting to be captured.
This my first ever animation, done in good transparency but not enough to push it to f/20.
C11 FR 0.63x, DMK 21, barlow 2x, Astronomik IIb RGB.
@60fps, exp: R&G at 1/60 sec; B at 1/54 seg.
Registax v.5 e CS4.

(c) JC/09