Jupiter 20121031 @00:09UT

First Jupiter reprocessed.

First 2012 season Jupiter

Average seeing and hazy sky.
C11, TV 3x barlow, DMK21AF, Astronomik IIc RGB
Oct 31, 00:00 UT

Jupiter Oct 29th - improving processing routine

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I am trying out some processing routines so I can improve my planetary images.

The leftmost image was processed in Autostakkert, FitsWork and CS4 (RGB 500 frs per channel). The middle one was processed in Registax V6 (wavelets) and CS4 (RGB 1200 frames per channel) and the one on the right was also processed in Registax V6, but this time I used the de-rotate routine. Final image was combined in WinJupos 9.1.16 and CS4 (R-RGB 1200 frames per channel).

C11 f/20
DMK21AF (icx618)
RGB Astronomik IIc

Jupiter, GRS & Io - 201110292344UT - Reprocessed.

Jupiter reprocessed on Registax V6, with de-rotation.

Jupiter, GRS & Io - 201110292344UT

Jupiter on the evening of Oct. 29th.
Seeing was very good but temperature was dropping steadily which prevented mirror cooling to match seeing.
I also had to struggle against corrector condensation and at some time through the evening, I had to work around it with my wife's hairdryer...
By the time I had it done, seeing got worse. Damn it!
C11 @f/20
DMK21AF
RGB Astronomik IIc
500fr per channel RGB
Autostakkert, Fitswork and CS4

Jupiter, GRS & Ganimedes 201110202215UT

Seeing has degraded over the past few days which makes it clearly more difficult to get sharp images. This one had to be overprocessed...
C11 f/20
DMK21AF
RGB Astronomik IIc
500 fr per channel

Clouds are rolling in and unfortunately, it looks like winter has finally arrived. Hopefully will get some cristal crispy clear nights and good seeing.

Jupiter, GRS & Europa 20111010 at23h49mUT

On the same evening seeing can trick you for sure... after just 5 minutes, seeing was much better than on the previous RGB sequence run (20111010-23h45mUT).

Captured with Lucam Recorder.
Autostakkert, Fitswork, CS4.

Jupiter 20111010 23h45mUT

C11 @f/20
DMK21AF
RGB Astronomik IIc

Jupiter, GRS and Europa
Fair seeing...

Jupiter, GRS & Calisto 20111006 at 00h30mUT

I just cannot believe how good the seeing has been the past days.
As such, I have been taking advantage of it, though some high clouds are rolling in at night, along with some haze. But hey, I am not complaining at all.

C11 @f/20
DMK21AF, RGB Astronomik IIc
500 frames per channel, in Fitswork and CS4

Jupiter 20111005 at 00h42mUT

Another Jupiter.
C11 @f/20
DMK21AF
Seeing was much better than usual... :-)

Jupiter 20111003

C11 @f/20
RGB 500 frames
20111003 @23h58m
Europa is visible just below and left of GRS.

Jupiter 20111003

I decided it was time to give my C11 a go and I did take the borrowed C14 away. I set the C11 up and shot Jupiter for a while.
Seeing was much better than the previous sessions but nevertheless my C11 outperforms the C14...
20111003 at 23h51m UT @f/20
IC Capture 1/23"
RGB - 500 frames per channel
Autostakkert and CS4. Processed on the fly, right after capture, meaning it can be improved, I guess.
My best so far.

Jupiter 20110919

First Jupiter of the 2011/12 season.
Seeing was fair/normal but much better than it has been this year. The weather has been so unbelievably poor this year that I have been hitting the sack really early...

C14 @f/22
DMK21AF
RGB Astronomik IIc
1000 frames per channel (1/30" @30fps)
20110919 00h20m UT

Registax v6. - Jupiter reprocessed

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Last April 2nd Registax 6 was released. Time to go back to my old Jupiter avis I got in January and give them a new shot.
Registax 6 seems to be much better then v5, with its multialignment points and image processing is much quicker.
Great timing since Saturn season is right there.

Jupiter, Nov 4th

Though seeing and transparency were far from good (fair, to be honest), I gave it a shot at Jupiter.

Jupiter, GRS, Calisto & Io

Lots of detail on the planet and on the moons...
Io is transiting and casting a shadow on Jupiter, while Calisto is quietly taking its tour around the planet.
Best picture ever of those moons. :-)

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Jupiter reprocessed (9/9)

Managed to reprocess some "old" files and came up with this "new" picture...
Image #1:
reduced to 80%
still needs some work over right limb and Io (not shown).

image #2
original processed image (reduced to 70%)

Jupiter, Sep 28th

One lucky shot between the clouds...
C11 f/30
TV 3x
DMK21AF icx618
RGB Astronomik IIc
Leiria, 23h45m UT

Jupiter & GRS, Sep. 9th, 2010

High clouds and low transparency ruined what could have been a very good night.
Io is on the upper right corner, kind of escorting the GRS.
Autostakkert & CS4.
Image is resized to 80%.

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Jupiter & Io - Sep. 8th

Rain is gone but clouds are still around...! :(
I was able to get the gear out and set it up for a Jupo shooting session, but the seeing was not that good.
Stack of some 700 frames per channel, in Astrostakkert & CS4.
Time is UT.

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