Jupiter 2004/3/20
Jupiter Image Information
- Date: 2004.03.20 22:36 PST
- Above average seeing with clouds
- Images taken from Hancock Field Station
- Jupiter shadows and moons from left to right:
Io moon shadow is on the upper center of Jupiter,
Io moon is in transit across the face of Jupiter slightly below between the two moon shadows,
Ganymede moon shadow is on the right upper side of Jupiter and
Ganymede moon is to the right of Jupiter.
- Apparent equatorial diameter: 44.0
- Apparent polar diameter: 41.2
- Apparent magnitude: -2.48
- Azm: 169° 57' 16"
- Alt: +53° 09' 44"
Photo Information
- CAMERA: Meade LPI camera
- EXPOSURE: unknown
- GAIN: 50
- OFFSET: 50
- TRACK: on
- COMBINE: on
- SAVE EVERY IMAGE: off
- DARK SUB: off
- MIN QUALITY: 0
- 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: Stacked 30 seconds of images
- FILE TYPE: BMP
- TRACKING: on Jupiter
Imaging Equipment
- Telescope: Orion Atlas 10 reflector (254 mm aperture,
f/4.7 focal ratio, 1200 mm focal length)
- Barlow: Tele Vue 2x Barlow
- Finder: Orion ShortTube™ 80 mm aperture rich-field refractor
(f/5 focal ratio, 400 mm focal length)
- Focuser: JMI NGF-S Motofocus with DRO (Digital Read Out)
- Telescope Mount: Losmandy G-11 mount
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, curves and crop.
Use Test patterns to calibrate monitor brightness, contrast, height and width
© 1998-2004 David Haworth
