Jupiter

[Rjhere]

Yesterday, I got my T2 mount for my Nikon DSLR to mount on my telescope. After an hour of fiddling around, and stacking the pictures together, I got this:

What do you think? Note that the scope only have a 90mm lense (refractor design) and I do not have any tracking nor compensation for Earth's rotation. Between the DSLR and the scope is a 10mm projection piece for additional zoom.

To be honest, I am a little disappointed with the result as I don't think there's much more I can do to improve the pictures. Zooming more is pointless due to the small scope's resolution abillity.

Camera: Nikon DSLR D3200, Scope: Sky-watcher 90mm, 910mm focal length.

[check]

What camera settings did you use and how many frames did you take?

Also, is your refractor collminated correctly? You've also got a lot of chromatic aberration which filters could help with.

Edit:

I cleaned up the image in photoshop and scaled it down to 30%. Looks a touch better.

Edited March 21, 2014 by check

[jwenting]

not bad at all. Wish I had more opportunities to use my telescope, it's mostly sitting idle for lack of clear weather (and for me being asleep after dark most of the time too, lol).

This is the best I've got so far, and that was half a year ago. Not been able to use the darn thing at all since november

Celestron 125mm reflector with computerised motor drive.

Edited March 22, 2014 by jwenting

[Sillychris]

Totally righteous!

[Motokid600]

Watch in the highest def and for instances of clear seeing.

Taken through my cpc1100 a few years back. Out of all my pictures this video is my favorite. Probably because of the audio.. that was a nice night. And it was my first endeavor into astrophotography. I just took a small SLR and stood as still as I could. The seeing that night was perfect. It was the shadow of one of the moons that made me take the video. I couldn't tell you which one it was casting the shadow. The bright yellow one is obviously Io. My favorite of the four Galilean moons. I mean to registax this video once I get back into the hobby.. there are a lot of clear frames I could use.