Tiny Jupiter
My first capture of Jupiter came along as a fill in target of opportunity, shot in between the clouds, on the last night we had our gear set up. The skies were just cloudy enough to preclude the ability to collect any deep sky data, so I eventually decided to take a look at Jupiter. I was not properly configured for the largest image, and with clods could not get any color frames captured, but even the little image shot with no Barlow and the 0.62x reducer in produced a recognizable image. It was amazing to see how much better the seeing was than what I had seen up in CO a few weeks earlier. And just by luck, I also imaged when the Great Red Spot was visible, as well as the 2 moons Io (farthest away) and Ganymede (closest) as well.
Equipment:
ZWO ASI1600MM-C Camera @ -20C and Gain:139 Offset:21
Software Bisque MyT Mount
Celestron EdgeHD 800 8" SCT, with
Lepus 0.62x reducer, f/6.2 at 1260mm
Software:
Registax
PIPP
Light Frames:
Luminance: video, best 10% of 5007 frames @ 90 fps, 320 x 240 resolution
