Jupiter with 4 moons. Not particularly well focused or exposed, but there's improvement compared to the previous attempt. What looks like an elongated smudge to the southwest (upside-down, remember) is in fact two moons.
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... also known as "the blob". This is Jupiter and its 4 Galilean moons. Taken through a Celestron 130 with a 2× barlow lens. I assure you that with the 10× eyepiece is looked lovely :-)
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First light with the new hacked up webcam. This is Jupiter with all four of the Galilean moons (one is about to transit or duck behind) SE of the planetary disk.
This image is unprocessed.
Conditions were average. Jupiter was not very high in the sky and there is a lot of light pollution in the middle of the city. Wind caused the scope to vibrate a lot, despite being partially shielded by an open car door.
I obviously need to do a lot of tweaking of the camera and image controls, as Jupiter is completely over-exposed. Since I don't have a motor drive, Jupiter transits the field of view in about 30 seconds, which makes tweaking image settings pretty tricky ;-)
The scope still needs more collimation as well; I did a reasonable job by eye, but there are still colour fringes around the disk here and the moons aren't as focused as they could be.
Using a Celestron 130EQ with a modified Logitech 9000 Pro at prime focus. Celestron red filter 25. This image consists of 7 frames processed in Registax.
Pretty awful conditions, middle of the city and a nearly full moon within a few degrees of Jupiter.
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Jupiter with the Hyades and (just) Pleiades clusters on NYE.
Again, pretty bad conditions. The moon had already risen, cloud was drifting over, it was pretty hazy and none of the subjects were particularly high above the horizon.
Taken with a Nikon D80 + 18-55mm wide angle lens. 5x20 second exposures stacked using Deep Sky Stacker.
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