Via Flickr:
The Solar System's largest planet imaged through a deep red filter. This is my 1st acceptably sharp picture of a planet! Next time, I'll shoot it in colors.
Instrumental setup: PL1-M camera equipped with a deep red filter, Celestron C14 scope and Celestron Barlow lens (2x magnifying power). Effective aperture is approx f/26. The scale is 0.11" per pixel.
Processing: flat-field correction (somehow, there were many dust spots on the Barlow lens), frame stacking with Avistack2 (40 best frames out of 520).
Post-processing: Lucy-Richardson sharpening and wavelet enhancement with custom IDL scripts. Vertical flipping, cropping and light curve with Photoshop.
I hope you enjoy the sight of the two equatorial storms and the turbulence patterns inside the dark cloud belts.
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
Deep red Jupiter
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