Jupiter Photos and Info

• 2009-Sep-02 - ToUcam image of Jupiter with Great Red Spot - Meade LX10 OTA at f/20 (with 2X Barlow), Philips ToUcam, from Saline MI (seeing 9). A stack of the top 300 of 900 frames. Processing: K3CCD (capture, 1/25th second exp., 5 fps, gain 25%?, brightness 30%?, saturation 40%?, gamma 30%?, "raw/full frame", brightness meter ??), Registax (alignment, stacking, wavelet processing, color channel alignment), Paintshop Pro (cropping). Animation including 2 prior videos (similar conditions but best 200 of 600 frame videos).

• 2007-Jun-22 - ToUcam image of Jupiter with Great Red Spot - Meade LX90 OTA at f/20 (with 2X Barlow), Philips ToUcam, from Anza (seeing 8). A stack of the top 200 of 1200 frames. Processing: K3CCD (capture, 1/25th second exp., 5 fps, gain 25%?, brightness 40%?, saturation 40%?, gamma 40%?, "raw/full frame", brightness meter ??), Registax (alignment, stacking, wavelet processing, color channel alignment), Paintshop Pro (cropping).

• 2004-Mar-27 - ToUcam image of Triple moon shadow transit - Meade LX10 OTA at f/40 (with 4X Powermate), Philips ToUcam, from Oceanside (seeing fair to OK). An animation the top 500 of 1000 frames (first 4 frames, about 10 minutes apart) and top 500 of 2000 frames (last 4 frames, about 5 minutes apart). Processing: K3CCD (capture, 1/25th second exp., 5 fps for first 4 frames, 10 fps for last 4 frames, gain 25%, brightness 50%, saturation 50%, gamma 50%, "raw/full frame", brightness meter 90-100), Registax (alignment, stacking, wavelet processing, color channel alignment), Paintshop Pro (cropping, alignment of animation frames).
• 2003-Jan-04 - HX916 image of a four frame animation of Jupiter - (f/40, Meade LX10, each frame a stack of 5 0.40 second images for each LRGB, unbinned, STV guided, from Anza (seeing 9, transp 5, tracking 0.8X, 0.9Y @ 1.0 sec)). Processing: AIP (dark calibration, unsharp masking (radius 6.0, contrast 10.0), stacking), MaxIm (default color combination, linear brightness and contrast stretch, scale 50%, convert to JPG).
• 2003-Jan-04 - HX916 image of Jupiter - the last frame of the animation at the native resolution (f/40, Meade LX10, a stack of 5 0.40 second images for each LRGB, unbinned, STV guided, from Anza (seeing 9, transp 5, tracking 0.8X, 0.9Y @ 1.0 sec)). Processing: AIP (dark calibration, unsharp masking (radius 6.0, contrast 10.0), stacking), MaxIm (default color combination, linear brightness and contrast stretch, convert to JPG). NOTE: The individual images sorely need flat framing but I made the bad mistake of not taking any. There are lots of little donuts and specks in the individual frames.

• 11/25/00 - Jupiter stacked - a stack of 5 shots of Jupiter with STV in zoom mode. Processed in CCDOPS using the "crop image to planet limb" alignment technique with each image sharpened twice with the CCDOPS medium planetary sharpening filter. Taken at f20.

• 11/25/00 - Jupiter stacked - same as above but processed with AIP4Win (Astronomical Image Processing for Windows) using automatic planetary centering, average combine of multiple images, and then sharpened with several moderate unsharp mask.

• 11/25/00 - Jupiter and Ganymede - a shot of Jupiter on the morning of 11/25/00 with Ganymede visible in the lower right. Notice the dark upper-right quadrant visible on Ganymede. This isn't a fluke, as it also showed up on photos taken by Pat Knoll taken the same time (and in better detail and resolution) so I think it's actually surface detail. This is a stack of 2 images at f20 with the STV in zoom mode and resized 2X.

• 11/5/00 - Io/Red Spot transit sequence - a series of STV shots the morning of November 5th showing Io and its shadow transiting in front of Jupiter with the Great Red Spot leading the way.

• Sept 30, 2000 at f20, best-sharp for a few minutes w/ 0.050 second exposures, STV in "zoom" mode.

• 10/24/00 - Three shots of Jupiter the morning of September 24rd, 2000 (Image 1, Image 2, Image 3), all at f10 at prime focus using the STV's "best-sharp" feature for a few minutes w/ 0.020 second exposures in STV "zoom" mode and then I expanded it 4X with Paint Shop Pro. All three of them are much better than the August 26th shot. Visually, Saturn was outstanding just before dawn on the 24th. The Cassini division was stable and easily visible all the way around the ring and the crepe ring was distinctly visible!

• 8/26/00 at f10 at prime focus, best-sharp for a few minutes w/ 0.005? second exposures, STV in "zoom" mode.

• Jupiter and four moons Prime focus of LX10 with 2X barlow and eyepiece projection adapter as extender. 1 second exposure (grossly overexposing Jupiter).