Jupiter 31/08/09

[Sorarse]

Thought I would have a go at imaging a planet for the first time. Like so many astronomical objects, it's not easy.

Viewing conditions weren't brilliant - lot of movement in the air, and I was racing to beat some cloud cover that was coming in. Still, it was a lot of fun.

Like so many things though, this attempt has just spurred me on to try and do better next time.

Hope you like it.

http://www.88qv.com/net/Jupiter.jpg


ETA
This was a single exposure at 1/125s and ISO 1600.

[Adrena1in]

Looks pretty good to me...what were you using? Plus did you have to composite the moons in separately?

I'm still awaiting a Meade LX200 10", which I'm hoping is going to be ideal for viewing and imaging Jupiter. Picking that up from Kent actually.

[Sorarse]

This was through a 9 1/4" Celestron.

The moons were in the original photograph, but have had a bit of individual attention to help them stand out.

[mlc]

This is excellent - I still aspire to getting moons and surface detail in the same image using my Celestron 8" (only had it a couple of weeks and not had many decent nights in that time!). The issue I find most challenging is focus - what camera did you use and did you use liveview. I have tried both liveview and running onto a pc. Using a PC is easier but I am now thinking I should make myself a bahtinov mask. I would be interested to know what techniques you use.

[Sorarse]

Thanks for the kind comments mlc. This was taken with a 40D and I used live view to get the focus as good as was possible in the seeing conditions.

[Tendy]

Hope you like it.
Oh yes, i do!!