Submitted by: Michael Baughman (Gzeppman@aol.com) [28 May 05]
Attached is an image I captured of Jupiter, Io on the left, Ganymede on the right and Ganymede's shadow on the upper right top of Jupiter, suitable for your Guest Planetary Astrophotography. Taken 5/24/05, Littleton, Colorado, 10:30 pm. ETX-90, LPI imager, 12A Yellow filter, 9 exposures, 0.25 sec, no post-processing. A decent image for low magnification (208x) and no special processing.
Submitted by: Ryan Andrews (randrews@netwalk.com) [28 May 05]
Thanks for the great site Mike. This is my first attempt at Jupiter. I used Registax after taking a 30 second AVI (640x480, 10 frames/sec) with a Canon Powershot A95. I'm pretty new at this but happy with it.
I wanted to send another Jupiter photo. I'm very happy with this one, only having the telescope and camera for one week!
Submitted by: fredrick@pi.net [28 May 05]
Please find attached a combination of two pictures I took of Jupiter. Jupiter itself was taken with a 3X Barlow, the moons were fotographed without the barlow and then combined in the picture. It shows that with a ETX 70 one can make rather nice pictures, although of they can, of course, not compete with larger ETX telescopes.
I just got in from taking some pictures of Jupiter and it's moons, being badly prepared (I was actually watching football; German cup final as I saw how clear it was outside) I expected to see more that just one moon. Since the sky was so clear I decided to take some pictures with the LPI and my ETX 70, and to set the quality used to stack images at 90%. The attached image is a stack of two 50 image stacks, one of Jupiter and one of the one moon I could make out. Got inside looked at the Sky & Telescope's Jupiter moon Applet, and found that the one visible moon had to be Ganymedes. Since Calisto was too close and Io was crossing the surface. Then I looked at my fresh images and I was amazed! Unless I'm imagining things, I could clearly see Callisto, but the most amazing was that I could sort of make out the shadow of Io, on an ETX 70! (Please let me know the level of my imagination since I'm scared I'm starting seeing thing (that are NOT there...)!)
Submitted by: Bruce Pipes (bevnbruce@comcast.net) [20 May 05]
The photo below shows the Great Red Spot and Io and its shadow. It is not the best Jupiter pic taken with an ETX-125, but it is not too bad for a rather old and simple digital camera. See details below. The particulars for the pic are as follows: Date and time: 4/10/05 at 9:30 pm EST Telescope: ETX-125 Photo method: afocal Eyepiece: Meade 4mm Plssl Camera: Canon S110 in movie mode (640X480 pixels, 20 fps) attached with Scopetronix Digi-T Processing: 1186 frames stacked with Keith's Image Stacker and processed with unsharp mask, wavelet shrinkage denoise and level adjust. Brightness and contrast further adjusted in Photoshop Elements.
Submitted by: chasiotis elias (elias_chasiotis@stendor.coo.gr) [14 May 05]
Submitted by: Christoph Jansen (CJansen@uebersetzungsbuero-jansen.de) [14 May 05]
another Jupiter from tonight. Recorded on May 12 2005, 20:37 UT in Bad Zwischenahn (Germany) using an ETX 125 with 2x TeleVue Deluxe Barlow (focally) and a ToUCam Pro at 10 fps. Seeing 4 of 10, Transparency 10 of 10(!). N = up, E = right.500of 1000 images stacked and processed using Registax 3.0.1.23. Very ugly waves kept me from getting better detail. The moon visible to the left is Europa, its shadow is on Jupiter. To the left Io is visible, which begins its transit at 21:00 UT. I had intended to wait for Io's transit and the shadow transit, but the seeing worsened.
Submitted by: chasiotis elias (elias_chasiotis@stendor.coo.gr) [14 May 05]
This is a photo of the latest apparition of Mercury which is unfavourable for Northern latitudes. Despite the low altitude, seeing was relatively good but there was a color distortion due to atmospheric dispersion.
Submitted by: chasiotis elias (elias_chasiotis@stendor.coo.gr) [10 May 05]
Submitted by: Thom Tapp (ttapp@comcast.net) [7 May 05]
I am continually amazed at the results of my ETX-90 RA. I took this photo of Jupiter on April 22 at about 9:40 PM EDT. It clearly shows the shadow of one of the moons of Jupiter on the surface, and the moon itself on the limb. The Great Red Spot is clearly visible, as are many belts and details. This was shot using an old Logitech VC Webcam attached to the eyepiece holder. All I can say about the scope is "WOW!" I am one happy camper!
Submitted by: chasiotis elias (elias_chasiotis@stendor.coo.gr) [3 May 05]
Submitted by: Dieter.Wolf@DNSint.com [3 May 05]
having seen many beautiful photos of Jupiter from our colleagues, I can't resist to send you one of mine. It is nothing 'special' - no GRS, no moons or shadows, but as Elias said 'each day Jupiter reveals different and impressive features'. 2005-04-15, 23:00 CEST, ETX-125AT, 2x barlow, ToUCam pro at prime focus, 450 out of 2300 frames (seeing was not so good) Most prominent the NEB & SEB, where the SEB shows a dark separation line. Some dark spots in the EZ and the STrZ, a dark streak in the EZ and some white spots in the southern belts.
Submitted by: Paul Campbell (iamzoup@yahoo.com) [3 May 05]
A meade etx 125 that was super charged by Dr. Sherrod I use this scope in polar mode only. My camera is a sac 7 ccd . All the photos are avi's right around 2min. at 1/25sec. The photos were taken at prime focus. I process them in registax 3 and clean them up in adobe photoshop 6.0 Thanks Paul F. Campbell
Hi group here is a new photo of Saturn. Taken with a Meade etx 125 and a Sac 7 ccd camera. It was shot in avi mode. Avi's are short movies. This photo was 2min. long at 1/10 sec. 1,900 frames were processed and stacked in registax 3 and the final photo was cleaned up in adobe photoshop 6.0. I think this is my best Saturn photo yet. Enjoy later.
Submitted by: geheniau@xs4all.nl [26 Apr 05]
Here a new Jupiter. 23 april pretty good seeing.
Submitted by: chasiotis elias (elias_chasiotis@stendor.coo.gr) [26 Apr 05]
despite ETX 125 is considered a small instrument, it's worth trying to find it's limits. These days Mars is a challenging object for the telescope (angular size only 6.5"), but also it is unfavourably placed low in the morning sky. On April 23rd i tried to find out if any details of the planet could be visible. The result photo was very interesting. As you can see the south polar cap is visible on top. The very small white patch below is Hellas basin. On the bottom of the photo appears Syrtis Major. And to the left, Arabia is visible large and very bright.(The fact that Arabia was as bright as the polar cap made me wonder if it is something usual or not. How can we find out?).
Submitted by: Kaustav Bhattacharya (kaustav@kaustav.uk.com) [26 Apr 05]
I delved in to CCD photography for the first time recently, so here's my second attempt from a few days ago. Prior to taking this I had no experience at all in doing this sort of stuff. I hope my feeble attempt is received well by those more experienced. If anyone has any suggestions, do let me know! http://www.popastro.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=2629#2629
Submitted by: Mike Snowden (mike.snowden@btinternet.com) [22 Apr 05]
I've attached one DSI Image from mine. Shame about a close and bright moon: Naked-eye was down to about Magnitude 3.5, but even so, I would have hoped for better.
Submitted by: Christoph Jansen (CJansen@uebersetzungsbuero-jansen.de) [22 Apr 05]
her comes another Jupiter. Recorded on April 21 2005, 20:14 UT in Bad Zwischenahn (Germany) using an ETX 125 with 2x TeleVue Deluxe Barlow (focally) and a ToUCam Pro at 10 fps. Seeing 6 to 7 of 10. N = up, E = right. 450 of 620 images stacked and processed using Registax 3.0.1.23. Great transparency, but still some ugly waves crawling over the sky. I had to stress the processing a little to get the details, causing the ringing effect at the planet's rightmost edge.
Submitted by: chasiotis elias (elias_chasiotis@stendor.coo.gr) [22 Apr 05]
Each day Jupiter reveals different and impressive features. This picture was captured on 20th April 2005, 20:33 UTC.
Submitted by: chasiotis elias (elias_chasiotis@stendor.coo.gr) [18 Apr 05]
Just before a while i captured a photo of a full Venus two weeks after superior conjunction. Elongation is now 4.1 degrees. No special filter was used - there wasn't large glare around the sun. I put the telescope below the shadow of a wall and i was very cautious. I would wish Venus was close to inferior conjunction in such small elongation and show clearly extended cusps. Unfortunately a Venus crescent won't be so close to the sun until 2012!
Submitted by: Christoph Jansen (CJansen@uebersetzungsbuero-jansen.de) [18 Apr 05]
another Jupiter. Recorded on April 11 2005, 20:53 UT in Bad Zwischenahn (Germany) using an ETX 125 with 2x TeleVue Deluxe Barlow (focally) and a ToUCam Pro at 10 fps. Seeing 6 of 10. N = up, E = right. 550 of 660 images stacked and processed using Registax 3.0.1.23. The moon visible is Io. The transparency was good, unfortunately slow density waves crawled across the sky, blurring out the finer details of the image on stacking. A close look at Io reveals this: it is washed out to an oval of really ugly color.
Submitted by: Chris_ _Yeo (chrisyeojs@hotmail.com) [18 Apr 05]
Would like to share a picture I took of Jupiter a few days after opposition using an off-the-shelf Creative webcam and an ETX90 RA (mounted on a photo tripod because I'm on the equator).
Submitted by: Simon Thomas (small-fish@tiscali.co.uk) [14 Apr 05]
Please find attached picture of Jupiter taken with an ETX-105 and Meade LPI. Picture taken 10/04/2005, location - Birmingham, UK.
Submitted by: James Jefferson-Wilson James (james.jefferson@bbc.co.uk) [14 Apr 05]
Please find attached Jupiter taken on the 11th April 05. Processed In Registax 2.0. Minor processing only so To keep the image as natural as possible. Used 3 X Barlow on Jupiter for the 1st time due to other experiments Didn't work as well as the 2 X Barlow, this time however it turn out nice.
Submitted by: chasiotis elias (elias_chasiotis@stendor.coo.gr) [7 Apr 05]
Submitted by: Christoph Jansen (CJansen@uebersetzungsbuero-jansen.de) [7 Apr 05]
after a long time of bad weather or terrible seeing, here comes my first half-decent Jupiter this year. Recorded on April 5 2005, 21:39 UT in Bad Zwischenahn (Germany) using an ETX 125 with 2x TeleVue Deluxe Barlow (focally) and a ToUCam Pro at 10 fps. Seeing 5 of 10. N = up, E = right. 540 of 600 images stacked and processed using Registax 3.0.1.23. The moon visible is Io.
Submitted by: asakko pakko (passyx@hotmail.com) [7 Apr 05]
I have to thank you for such a great site that got me to buy an ETX a year ago. Im including a picture of Saturn taken from Majadahonda, Madrid (Spain) with an ETX 125EC and a logitech pro 4000 unmodified, treated with Registax. Date: 15th of March 2005 (aprox) I have more pictures at my website http://astro.manino.com
Submitted by: Mark Straley (mstraley@gmri.net) [4 Apr 05]
I have a Jupiter to show off. This was taken 4/2/2005 from Palm Harbor, Fl with my etx-125 using a 3x meade barlow. This is a result of 5 different images stacked in registax. Each of the 5 images were taken with an LPI, each about 60 shots averaged. For each one, I used diferent exposure times ranging from .3 to .75 secs and some flirting with the histogram on each one to get more contrast. Closer inspection shows Io at the lower right of Jupiter. Just a little unsharp masking done in PS. http://www.markstraley.com/space/
Submitted by: Paul Campbell (iamzoup@yahoo.com) [4 Apr 05]
re are three photos that I took 3/30/05 Jupiter is an avi of 200sec at 1/25 of a sec and the Saturn photos are avi's of 200sec. at 1/10 of a sec. Thats 2,999 frames of movie. They were taken with a meade 125 etx telescope at prime focus and a sac 7 camera. Processed in registax 3 and cleaned up in adobe 6.0. They were taken at my home in Washington Pa. at 11.30 pm est.
Submitted by: Chris Newsome (chrisnewsome@derbyuk99.freeserve.co.uk) [4 Apr 05]
Had to share this photo with you - I was stunned at the results. Taken with my ETX-105, Meade LPI and 2x Barlow. Effective magnification 490x. Full details of the images are supplied on the photo.
Submitted by: maxipter@aol.com [4 Apr 05]
Check out latest picture of Saturn from my little 5" scope.