Jupiter tonight (Page 2): Amazing photos of Jupiter, a couple of the moons, and the Great Red Spot, a hurricane-like storm but more powerful, that has been around since man started...

Sunnely Loc: Wisconsin

Ballard wrote:

The first shot of Jupiter was taken around 10:30PM (July 12th 2019). The second one was taken around 12:30AM (July 13 2019) 2 hours later. Note how the moons have moved and the red spot has rotated into view. The moon closer to the planet in the first image is Io, in the second picture the moon closer to the planet is Europa. Both of these shots where made by stacking frames from 4K video taken though a 11" Schmitt Cassegrain telescope.

Amazing photos of Jupiter, a couple of the moons, and the Great Red Spot, a hurricane-like storm but more powerful, that has been around since man started peering through the telescope.

Thanks for sharing.

Ballard Loc: Grass Valley, California

Guzser02 wrote:

Beautiful shots.
I like the "stacking" idea because that helps arrest the digital noise inherent in most celestial photographs.
Very well processed.

I the case of higher magnification as in these planet images it also helps remove a lot of the noise created by atmospheric turbulence.

phlash46 Loc: Westchester County, New York

Wow!!!!!

Guzser02

Image processing is a fundamental step, but when it comes to Cosmologic photography, 3 major challenges come to mind:
1) Digital noise
2) Chromatic aberration [magnification]
3) Atmospheric ambulance noise [you mentioned]
To repeat, Beautiful shots.

Wallen Loc: Middle Earth

very nice

alawry Loc: Timaru New Zealand

Love looking at that. I have a 100 refracter, Jupiter is one of the most lively objects to look at and track the moon, especially recently when it's in opposition(ish) and for us it winter so dark at 5 o'clock to help viewing. I've not bothered with astrophotraphy at all I just don't want to make the investment to results woth looking at. No telescope is big enough and yet low powered binoculars are plenty for education. Thanks for sharing your work.

VTMatwood Loc: Displaced Vermonta in Central New Hampsha

Very cool

J-SPEIGHT Loc: Akron, Ohio

Ballard wrote:

The first shot of Jupiter was taken around 10:30PM (July 12th 2019). The second one was taken around 12:30AM (July 13 2019) 2 hours later. Note how the moons have moved and the red spot has rotated into view. The moon closer to the planet in the first image is Io, in the second picture the moon closer to the planet is Europa. Both of these shots where made by stacking frames from 4K video taken though a 11" Schmitt Cassegrain telescope.

Excellent set of images.

Bayouguy Loc: From Chauvin living in North Carolina

Ballard wrote:

The first shot of Jupiter was taken around 10:30PM (July 12th 2019). The second one was taken around 12:30AM (July 13 2019) 2 hours later. Note how the moons have moved and the red spot has rotated into view. The moon closer to the planet in the first image is Io, in the second picture the moon closer to the planet is Europa. Both of these shots where made by stacking frames from 4K video taken though a 11" Schmitt Cassegrain telescope.

Outstanding.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

Nice!

FiddleMaker Loc: Merrimac, MA

Ballard wrote:

The first shot of Jupiter was taken around 10:30PM (July 12th 2019). The second one was taken around 12:30AM (July 13 2019) 2 hours later. Note how the moons have moved and the red spot has rotated into view. The moon closer to the planet in the first image is Io, in the second picture the moon closer to the planet is Europa. Both of these shots where made by stacking frames from 4K video taken though a 11" Schmitt Cassegrain telescope.

WOW - Excellent !!

Richard Engelmann Loc: Boulder, Colorado

That is wonderful.

Jim Plogger Loc: East Tennessee

Excellent images!

tcthome Loc: NJ

ELNikkor wrote:

Wow! Great shots and explanation!

mikedent Loc: Florida

Beautiful! All we have had here is cloud cover and rain...