Jupiter

Averaged with Autostakkert!3 from best 2500 or 5000 subframes from 10000 subframes. Wavelet sharpened with Paintshop Pro 2021.

Jupiter, Io and Great Red Spot

10/05/2023 00:30:44 EDT

Jupiter with GRS and Shadow of Europa
10/2/2023 23:49:33 EDT

10/2/2023 23:54:27

10/2/2023 23:57:40

Recent Lunar Images 10/03/2023

The following lunar images were taken of the waning gibbous Moon just after midnight. Optical configuration Celestron 8 + diagonal. ASI178MC was camera used at 800x600 RAW16 space at 60fps. Each image was averaged with Autostakkert!3 from the best 2500 of 5000 frames taken. Wavelet sharpening done in Paintshop Pro via script by this writer. In the future 800x600 RAW8 will be tested for a higher frame rate. 

Cauchy, Lawrence, Da Vinci craters area.

Cyrillus and Theophilus craters.

Fracastorius crater area

Hercules & Atlas craters

Hommel crater area

Janssen crater area

Leaky crater area

Lyell & Franz craters area

Miraldi crater area

Montes & Pyrenaeus craters area

Moretus crater area

Posidonius crater area

Piccolomini crater area

Tarantius & Zahringer

Vitruvius & Gardner craters

Jupiter with Callisto and Saturn

Jupiter with satellite Callisto and Saturn imaged on 10/3/2023. Averaged from best 2500 or 5000 subframes of 10000 subframes with Autostakkert!3.  Post processing including wavelet sharpening with Paintshop Pro 2021. 

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Saturn 22:35:59

Jupiter 11/9/22

In this series of images Europa followed by Ganymede transit. You can just begin to see a a dark light pattern on Ganymede's surface. Following the two satellites is the shadow of Europa. Times in DST label each image. Io emerges from Jupiter's shadow late in the sequence.

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Jupiter 11/8 and 11/9 2022

The goals for the two nights were to image Galilean satellite and satellite shadow transits. In the past I would magnify planets with a 2x Barlow but have decide to eschew Barlow in favor of prime focus with shorter exposures and higher frame rate. The planetary critical planetary sampling formula yields a focal length of  2349 mm a bit longer than my Celestron 8's 2030 mm. Considering typical mid Atlantic seeing prime focus is good enough. What follow are images of Jupiter acquired over 90 minutes and 2 hours on the two dates. Unfortunately, on the 8th Jupiter was just beginning to slide behind a nearby tree as the shadow transits took place. 

11/8/2022.

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