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Jupiter from July 10th.

Here is one of my better captures of Jupiter.

Two of it's moons can be seen--Io and Callisto (from right to left).

Shot with a Canon Rebel XSi (450D) and an 11" Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope (CGEM-1100) with a 2x Barlow lens for 5600mm focal length.

Final image was stacked with Registax.

I've got some more videos if you guys are into this kinda stuff. Check out my youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/Basard100

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Added: Oct-8-2010 Occurred On: Jul-10-2010
By: Basard
In: Other
Tags: jupiter, astrophotography, telescope, celestron, space, amateur
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  • awesome video

    Posted Oct-8-2010 By 
    LostSomewhereInSpace (2539.50)  
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  • Awesome, thanks for the upload, alot of us would never get the chance to see this otherwise.

    Posted Oct-8-2010 By 
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  • very nice image.

    Posted Oct-8-2010 By 
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  • great! Thanx!

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  • My local park has an annual astronomy night. They set up half a dozen serious telescopes, computers, etc. and they have experts explain stuff.
    Great fun.
    Good post. Great to see an astronomical post on LL that does NOT refer to aliens or Alex Jones!

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  • Nice. Jupiter always reminds me of the messy ball made by collecting all the leftover bits of plasticine.

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  • A corking bit of footage, nice one.

    If Io and Callisto are observable with your equipment I assume Ganymede is too?

    Posted Oct-8-2010 By 
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    • Europa and Ganymede are also visible, but were off to the right on that night. The four main moons can be seen with cheap binoculars--I can pick em all out with my 9x50 finder scope.

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  • Nice Basard, I'm shooting for a Meade LX-200 12" at some point in the future, I'd love to play around with some galaxy shots using some of that CCD technology out there.

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    • Will be easy with such aperture! I live in high light pollution, so I've been shooting planetary nebula--no auto guiding though, so I've only got 45 second subs so far.

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    • Trust me, the light pollution here is horrible. I'll have to travel at least an hour from my current location to get outside the fog of wasted energy, I hope the standard motors on the LX series provide stabalized tracking to get the most out of the CCD setup. Nice post, enjoy our nearby neighbors as well.

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    • I've got some pretty decent light pollution going on over here as well (in the "red" area, with some white to the north). I was pretty surprised to be able to see some smaller planetary nebula (magnitude 7-9ish) in the eyepiece. M57, M27, The Cat's Eye are all bright enough to bee seen in the eyepiece--some shorter exposures bring out decent detail as well. These SCT's have enough focal length to get decent image scale on those targets as well.

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  • Good stuff man. Thanks for sharing.

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  • Awesome~ can you actually see Jupiter's rotation?....I swear the giant red spot/storm was moving towards the center? and the Galilean moons to the left! ....I've seen this view many times thru my 13" newtonian, not nearly as clear as this layered image though! Great stuff!

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    • It's hard see the rotation (unless you watch for half hour or more), click my name, I've got a .gif of a 30 minute chunk of it's rotation.... Jupiter rotates once every 10 hours.

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  • Hmmm it's still missing that equatorial belt then.

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  • nice mate

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  • Is Jupiter still a planet or did the "scientist" take that one away from us too?

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  • awesome vid Bas', used to be into astronomy when I was a kid, seeing these images rekindles an interest, will certainly check out your YT page. Thanks for posting this material, it's important stuff cos it's real, it's our Solar System.

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