Jupiter on March 4, 2014

Post date: Mar 05, 2014 1:26:32 PM

I took my best yet photo of Jupiter on the evening of March 4, 2014 10:58 CST (March 5, 2014 4:58 UT)

Jupiter

Meade LX-90 ACF 8 inch F/10 with eyepiece projection using a 15mm Meade Super Plossl eypeiece, yielding approximately 6x, for a total EFL of 12,000mm (F/60). Nikon D5200 camera.

Captured in MOV video format 1080p at 30 frames per second.

Planetary Imaging PreProcessor 2.3.2 to convert 4,500 frames to AVI

Registax 6.1.0.8 - Stacked, ~4,000 frames with 2x drizzel, gamma adjusted, sharpened and +4 saturation.

Nikon ViewNX 2 version 2.8.2 used to crop and convert to JPEG.