After a long time I took out all the imaging gear for taking some images of Jupiter. We had a very clear night with very good seeing and the only bad thing was that wind shaking the mount. On my fast Dell notebook I had installed the latest drivers and imaging programs. It worked flawlessly with my DMK21AU camera.
The only thing changed this time that I switched from Barlow to eyepiece projection. It looks like the barlow lens has some error because here my best ever Jupiter images came out.
I took a number (20 alltogether) of AVI files with and without eyepiece projection. Images are monochrome. Next time I will try colour imaging with my filters again.
All Videos glued to a short sequence showing the rotation of
Jupiter. I had been playing around with different exposure
settings. This results in some flickering of the sequence.
2015-03-10 19:29 UT - 1000 images - 1800mm Maksutov 10mm eyepiece
projection. Image is reduced to 90% size
2015-05-03-10 19:31 UT - 1000 images - 1800mm Maksutov 10mm
eyepiece projection. Image at original size.
2015-05-03-10 19:53 UT - 1000 images - 1800mm Maksutov no
projection. Image "drizzled" for processing. This is my first image
where the moon Ganymede does not appear as single spot but as a
little disk.
2015-05-03-10 19:53 UT The Image from Cartes Du Ciel showing
the positions of the Jovian moons. I should have continued imaging
because the Red spot just appeared on the limb.
Optics : StellarVue Nighthawk Achromat Refractor d=80mm f=480mm (f=1/6) : Intes MK-67 Maksutov Type Reflector d=150mm f=1800mm (f=1/12) Camera : NIKON D7000 DSLR unmodified : The Imaging Source DMK21AU4.AS monochrome USB highspeed camera with FireCapture : Philips ToUcam 740 Color WebCam Filter : IR/UV Cut, Astronomik H-Alpha, Astronomik LRGB add. optics : ED 2x Barlow lens, eyepiece projection : 35mm, 50mm, 135mm and 200mm NIKON lenses available Mount : VIXEN GP with MT1 / Littlefoot Controller Guiding : PHD Aquisition : DELL E6410 i5 Notebook (Windows 7) Image Processing : ImagesPlus, NeatImage 7, PaintShopPro XI, PhotoShop LE 9, Registax 6, AviStack 2.0