Jupiter 2004/3/28
Jupiter Image Information
- Date: 2004.03.28 00:13 PST
- Above average seeing with high clouds
- Images taken from driveway
- From left to right are Ganymede shadow, Io shadow, Ganymede, Callisto shadow at upper right edge of Jupiter and Callisto moon off to the right of Jupiter. Io is between Io shadow and Ganymede but is not clearly seen in the above image.
Photo Information
- CAMERA: Meade LPI camera
- EXPOSURE: 0.177 sec
- GAIN: 49
- OFFSET: 50
- TRACK: on
- COMBINE: on
- SAVE EVERY IMAGE: off
- DARK SUB: off
- MIN QUALITY: 50
- EVALUATION COUNT: 10
- MONO: off
- KERNEL FILTER: EdgeEnhancedHard, Apply after 10 images
- HISTOGRAM BLACK: 0
- HISTOGRAM WHITE: 255
- HISTOGRAM LOG: off
- ROI: off
- OBJECT: Jupiter
- IMAGES: 40 seconds of images stacked
- FILE TYPE: BMP
- TRACKING: on Jupiter
Imaging Equipment
- Telescope: Orion Argonaut™ 150mm Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope,
f/12 focal ratio, 1800mm focal length
- Barlow: Tele Vue 2x Barlow
- Telescope Mount: Orion EQ-3 mount with EQ-3M dual-axis DC motor drive on
Celestron vibration suppression pads
Imaging Processing
- Image quality selection and stacking was done automatically by Meade LPI software.
- Cor Berrevoets Registax Version 2.1.14.0 beta, wavlett processed.
- Adobe Potoshop Version CS, unsharp mask, levels, and crop.
Use Test patterns to calibrate monitor brightness, contrast, height and width
© 1998-2004 David Haworth
