tried jupiter

1st try at this, 7d 600 f/4 w/ 2x tc heavy crop

just couldn't get focus with my shaky tripod. 2 exposures, couldn't figure how to stack with cs 3 so i just layered and erased the over exposed image. still, i'm amazed for it being around 368 million miles away!!

doug

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Considering the brightness of Jupiter and the image scale using a DSLR,especially a full frame, the focus looks fine. It's just that the planet gets overexposed when you try to expose the moons also.

There are plug-ins for Photoshop to stack images. But to do it, you do like you did, just open each image into a layer on your reference frame. You can use Overlay Blending for each layer, Then adjust the opacity of each to achieve the results you want.

Or you can use Registax for stacking planetary and lunar images.

Jealous of your 600/4 + 2x TC. nicely captured!

Not bad , got a stripe visible barely and picked up three moons . Nice catch .

thanks!! i shot a few stacking a 2x tc and a 1.4x tc but didn't get anything sharp enough to use.

tim, looks like we are neighbors, i'm in new bern. thanks for the info, btw i'm using macs.

doug waters wrote in post #10962288
thanks!! i shot a few stacking a 2x tc and a 1.4x tc but didn't get anything sharp enough to use.

tim, looks like we are neighbors, i'm in new bern. thanks for the info, btw i'm using macs.

Live in New Bern, you're not related to Skip are you?

tkerr wrote in post #10962538
Live in New Bern, you're not related to Skip are you?

OMG!!!! NOOOO!!!! i've been getting that question a lot lately!!

recently found out i'm actually a warters, a great, great .... great(?) grandfather had a falling out with the family and changed his last name, dropping the R. i've been thinking of changing it back!!

Wow! Awesome job!

Nice picture and yes I am also lens envy!