Observation by Martin Lewis: Jupiter 8th April 2017

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Martin Lewis

Observer

Martin Lewis

Observed

2017 Apr 08 - 21:32

Uploaded

2017 Apr 11 - 23:37

Objects

Jupiter

Equipment

444mm Dob
ASI174MC

Location

St.Albans

Target name

Jupiter

Title

Jupiter 8th April 2017

Files associated with this observation

J2017-04-08-22-32_RGB_MLe v2.jpg (448.3 kB)

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Comments

Dawson, 2017 Apr 12 - 03:29 UTC

Lovely detail, and even more impressive that you do this with a telescope on a Dobsonian mount. How long do you image for and roughly how many frames do you capture? Do you just keep nudging the mount to keep the planet in the FoV of the camera or is there another trick? It's a great image, well done.

Martin Lewis, 2017 Apr 14 - 09:37 UTC

Thanks James,
The scope sits on a home-built equatorial platform that keeps it in the field. Not suitable for deep sky work but with short exposures used in planetary imaging it works well.

Cheers

Martin

Martin Lewis, 2017 Apr 14 - 09:38 UTC

Just uploaded a version with better colour balance (14-4-17)

Martin Lewis, 2017 May 18 - 20:40 UTC

Reworked image uploaded on 18-5-2017 with better colour distribution

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