Jupiter

Jupiter / Sol 5

	Taken on the 16th Feb 2002. This image was over processed to bring out the GRS more.
	Jupiter image was 30 frames taken from 500 frame avi.
	Jupiter image was 30 frames taken from 500 frame avi. This image has a Jovian satalite shadow visable lower right.
	Jupiter 20 frames taken on the 25 March 04. 10 Frames per sec . Capture for 10 secs. Gamma 0 Saturation full. Brightness not touched. Auto colour balance. Exposure 125 Gain around 30%
	This one taken 26 March 04. 30 frames from an avi of 100.
	26 March 04 32 Frames from an avi of 120.
	29 March 04 10 Frames for this image. I think I over processed it.
	4th April, 2005 This is an image of Jupiter and its 4 Galilean moons/satellites. Here I tried to keep some detail on the planets surface and at the same time try and capture the 4 moons. As can be seen, using this method you do loose detail. A better method maybe is to capture the planetary detail then lengthen the exposure to capture the moons.
	The four images were taken on the night of the 18 April 2005. These were taken through my 8 2/4" Newtonian with a X4 (BC&F) Barlow lense using the EQ5 mount driven in RA only. Each AVI is 60 seconds at 1/33rd of a second at 10 frames per second. White balance set using the card method. Gama 0 Saturation 100 Colour Auto once the planet is in the centre of the screen then untick it to lock it. Gain was set at 1/4 or 25% 18 AVI captured. The top 90% used in Registax 3. Slight tweak of the Histogram to bring the colours in to line and RGB shift used to bring the red and the blue together.
	Jupiter taken on the 21st April 2005 using a 222mm Newtonian on an EQ5 mount driven in RA only. Here are the best 2 images from a 5 hours stint. The night was misty with a near full Moon so they are not the best but I am happy with the results so far. ToUcam settings. White balance used white card in Sunlight to set it. Gama 0 Saturation 100% Colour balance set up on the planet then unticked so it can't change. 10 frames per second. Gain set at 15% or the image would have been far too bright. As it was I had to drop the brightness level right down. Jupiter is taken from an avi of 90 secs at 10 frames per second. Only used 286 of those frames for stacking.
	Captured on the night of 29 April 2005. Jupiter is 240 frames from a 600 frame AVI of 1 minute. Captured with K3CCDTools. Processed with Registax. Auto white balance. 5fps. Gain 5%. Jupiter still came out very bright but darkened slightly when I applied the Wavlets on layers 4,5 and 6.
	Captured on the 11th May, 2005 Used K3CCDTools to capture and Registax to process. Information is as at left only I used the X2 barlow as the night ws not very stable for the X4.
	14 May 05 Telescope used was my 222mm f/7.2 with a X4 Barlow. 2 minute AVI and the best frames selected to stack in Registax 3. Both images use the figures below but for the larger image I pulled the X4 Barlow out and far as it would go and still be caught with the thumb screw so I think this would be around X5 ? White Balance auto. Gama 0 Saturation 100 Auto colour balance. 10 Frames per second. Gain 15%
	The next 3 images I took on the 17 May, 2005. The first image one is Ganymede in a shadow transit at around the 10 o'clock position. The Moon had just left the planet and is now not visible on this image.
	17 May, 2005 Image 2 is the Ganymede transit with moons. Notice that there seems to be a chunk missing from the planet at the 10 o'clock position. This is Ganymedes shadow. Here I over exposed the planet to capture the Moons/Satallites.
	17 May, 2005 Image 3 is the Moons/Satallites of Jupiter and a second image put over the top of the over oxposed planet to show the moons as well as Jupiter. Remember this is 2 images. The first image capturing the moons and over expose Jupiter and the second to capture Jupiter without the moons.

	8 June, 2005 This image was 100 frames from 200 captured as .bmp's. Stacked in Registax and final a tweak in The Gimp. I used more or less the same settings that I used for Mars capture here. Scroll down to the 5th image.
	8 June, 2005 This image was 100 frames from 200 captured as .bmp's. Stacked in Registax using the X2 Mitchell feature to enlarge the image and a final tweak in The Gimp.
Jupiter for 2006. Jupiter this year will not be very high in the sky for the nothern hemisphere observers. For me it just clears the roof tops at the bottom of my garden but it still runs through the Clementis.
	4 April, 2006 0237UT This is just a quick 30 sec AVI at 15 fps at prime focus. Shutter speed was 1/25 and gain was turned up to 90%. I wanted to try and capture Jupiter with the four Galilean satellites.