Observation by Ron Morley: Jupiter - Great Red Spot

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Ron Morley

Observer

Ron Morley

Observed

2025 Jan 01 - 20:55

Uploaded

2025 Jan 04 - 12:35

Objects

Jupiter

Equipment

Meade LX200 Classic 10" SCT, 2x tele-extender, ZWO ASI585MC camera

Exposure

69 sec video at 37 fps ( 2,582 frames), exposure 26.58ms, gain 261

Location

Blairadam, Perth and Kinross, Scotland

Target name

Jupiter Great Red Spot

Title

Jupiter - Great Red Spot

About this image

First Great Red Spot image taken in years - I kept missing it - mainly due to bad timing and weather. Difficulties with moisture inside SCT tube fogging up when using dew heater band - corrector plate inside de-fogged with hairdryer. Need to sort humidity in my roll-off roof observatory. Temperature was around -2c at time of imaging with 20mph wind gusts. Seeing was moderate - after the tube currents dispersed. Captured using SharpCap 4.1 (64bit), processed with Registax followed by AstroArt 8.0 (a few iterations of stretch, unsharp mask, Gauss, RL deconvolution)

Files associated with this observation

Jupiter 01-01-2025 20_55_36hrs (UT).jpg (33.6 kB)

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