dawson Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 After a fun afternoon playing with my telescope and the moon, I had a quick look at Jupiter at about 18:30 whilst the sky was still light. I thought there was a dead fly on the optics as there was a black dot on the disc of the planet in the 8mm EP, but as I moved the scope I realised it must be a moon transiting. As I blew my ZWO camera up last night (don't ask), I decided I'd have to have a crack at imaging this transit with the DSLR. Canon 6D on a 1.25" 2x Powermate at prime focus on C11; seeing was pretty good and there was a fair amount of mist evolving in the air which didn't seem to hinder things. 150 seconds of video at ISO 400, 25 frames per second. Massive video cropped in PIPP and best 80% of frames given to Registax which stacked the next best 80% of frames (about 2400 in all). Fiddle with wavelets and unsharpen mask in Photoshop CS2. It transpires Io is the moon to the left of the planet with its shadow to the left of the Great Red Spot; Ganymede is the moon to the right of the planet (data from: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/javascript/jupiter#). It's not a S@N winning image, but I'm pleased I captured it. Just need to get onto ZWO and try and resolve that issue! JD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red dwalf Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 nice image James, come on tell us the story of the zwo, is there something we need to know about, do they explode if plugged in to long ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheila Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 nice one James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catman161 Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 Nice one dude I took a few Avis this evening. Will process at some point tomorrow. Misty all night though so am not holding out any hope. Looks a nice image for dslr shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnnyaardvark Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Superb James. Love it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawson Posted March 12, 2014 Author Share Posted March 12, 2014 The shadow on Jupiter belonged to Ganymede, not Io. JD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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