Jupiter 2004/3/2
Jupiter Image Information
- Date: 2004.03.02 23:15 PST
- Above average seeing with high and low clouds
- Images taken from driveway
- Three Jupiter moons from left to right are Io, Callisto and Europa.
- Great Red Spot
- Apparent equatorial diameter: 44.5
- Apparent polar diameter: 41.6
- Apparent magnitude: -2.50
- Azm: 154° 36'01"
- Alt: +50° 45'21"
Photo Information
- CAMERA: Meade LPI camera
- EXPOSURE: 0.354 sec
- GAIN: 50
- OFFSET: 50
- TRACK: on
- COMBINE: on
- SAVE EVERY IMAGE: off
- DARK SUB: off
- MIN QUALITY: 50
- EVALUATION COUNT: 10
- MONO: off
- KERNEL FILTER: EdgeEnhancedHard, Apply after 10 images
- HISTOGRAM BLACK: 0
- HISTOGRAM WHITE: 255
- HISTOGRAM LOG: off
- ROI: off
- OBJECT: Jupiter
- IMAGES: 25 images stacked
- FILE TYPE: BMP
- TRACKING: on Io
Imaging Equipment
- Telescope: Orion Argonaut™ 150mm Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope,
f/12 focal ratio, 1800mm focal length
- Barlow: Tele Vue 2x Barlow
- Telescope Mount: Orion EQ-3 mount with EQ-3M dual-axis DC motor drive on
Celestron vibration suppression pads
Imaging Processing
- All image stacking was done automatically by Meade LPI software.
- Cor Berrevoets Registax Version 2.1.14.0 beta, wavlett processed.
- Adobe Potoshop Version CS, unsharp mask, levels, and crop.
The below image is the cropped output of the Meade LPI software before RegiStax and Photoshop processing.
Use Test patterns to calibrate monitor brightness, contrast, height and width
© 1998-2004 David Haworth
