Jupiter last night.

[mark]

Taken from my back patio using the 130mm Refractor and a 17+year old (low res by today standards) usb planetary video camera. This was the result of sorting 5000+ frames into the best 2100 frames, stacking them and coaxing the detail out. The software does all of that tedious work now.

Yes, it is small and that is simply due to the focal length of the telescope I own. It is very difficult to push the magnification with a 130mm lens.

Someday I would like to image it with a modern hi res camera and a telescope that measures 430mm.

[jon-nyc]

Wow!

[Mik]

Still spectacular that a home astrophotographer came do that.

[mark]

@jon-nyc Thanks! I did a different version and balanced the color channels. I tried to not be so heavy handed on this version.

[George K]

Very impressive, Mark.

[Jolly]

Neat stuff.

[Copper]

Is that better or worse than what Galileo Galilei saw?

[89th]

Awesome, in the purest sense of the word. Also enjoy the stark blackness it floats in.

[mark]

@Copper said in Jupiter last night.:

Is that better or worse than what Galileo Galilei saw?

Much better. The level of detail captured by the camera is even more than you can see though the telescope live. The two moons that are in the photo, are subdued by my rusty image processing skills. There is a better photo in this data. I just need to learn more about and get a lot more experience with the new tools that allow me to extract it from the data.

I am also looking at a new camera. And getting to use a 17" behemoth of a telescope for my next attempt.

Galileo's optics were very crude compared to modern optics.