Observation by David Arditti: Jupiter February 14

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David Arditti

Observer

David Arditti

Observed

2025 Feb 14 - 17:32

Uploaded

2025 Feb 19 - 01:21

Objects

Jupiter

Equipment

356mm SCT
ASI183MC camera

Location

Edgware

Target name

Jupiter

Title

Jupiter February 14

About this image

This is the first image of Jupiter I have taken with an ASI183MC colour camera I bought at Astrofest this year. With the small pixel size of this camera I am still experimenting to see if it works better with or without a Barlow lens with my Celestron 14. This was without a Barlow.

Files associated with this observation

j2025-02-14_1733ut_DLA.jpg (74.3 kB)

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Jeremy Shears, Callum Potter, Bill Leatherbarrow, Steve Knight, Callum Wingrove, Grant Privett, Geof Lewis, Miguel Araújo, Dr Richard John McKim, Graham Winstanley

Comments

Grant Privett, 2025 Feb 19 - 18:41 UTC

Evening!

I'm just curious as to what software you used to generate the picture.

David Arditti, 2025 Feb 20 - 02:20 UTC

Grant, I use Autostakkert! to stack the frames of three or four consecutive videos of 40s each, then AstroSurface to do wavelet sharpening on the resulting images. I 'measure' these in WinJupos and then use the 'derotate' function to produce one image. That image I then enlarge and sharpen slightly more in Photoshop, adjust colours and add the text. I now do all the capture and processing on a Mac, using a program called CrossOver to run Windows-only applications on the Mac. The process is similar to what I described in the 2023 October Journal.

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