Saturday, 12 September 2009



September marks the start of new observing season for those of us in the south west of Scotland, and by about 9:00pm it's getting dark enough to consider imaging.
A spell of unusually fine weather is all the cue I need to get out to a dark sky site and grab that first image.
What better place to start than Jupiter, now well placed for observation, if a little too low to produce a really good quality image (at least for me).
This image is a stack of about 1500 frames captured through the 8" Newtonian on a web-cam, (with a variety of extension tubes to get a reasonably sized image) and processed in Registax. The image was taken at 22:50pm on Friday 11th September.

Seeing was not particularly good, so I hope to produce better if the weather holds.

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