1st Jupiter image

John, that's a good first start considering how windy and poor last night was. I know myself, I was out shooting through my new c80ed for the first time, so that makes two of us

Keith..

John,
Thats a good start, how many frames did you stack?, the more the better.
I had a quick look last night and the seeing wasnt good , so I just kept onm looking and didnt power up the camera.

Out of 300 frames I probably ended up using about 100. I almost didn't bother with the camera last night either, but I reckoned I'd nothing to lose. Besides I find the camera/laptop combination an ideal high power eypiece substitute. The windy conditions dictated an unextended tripod - not a problem with Jupiter so low. I was also trying to shoot this with the object just a few degrees from a sodium street light (that I would dearly love to assassinate).

Nice pic John,nice two main belts...good for first try

Nice work John and full credit to you for capturing such a good first image. Theres more detail in that image than the 2 EQ belts!

I was also trying to shoot this with the object just a few degrees from a sodium street light (that I would dearly love to assassinate).

John, try this : I use one
Keith..

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If anone else using a Philips Pixel Plus/Toucam can offer any advice then it's appreciated - particularly Dave Grennan. Bear in mind that my scope is just a 4" fast refractor, and I'm waiting on an IR block filter.

That is a great image and given the conditions is probably as good as you can expect. One suggestion I would make would be to reduce the exposure time or the gain to ensure that you do not burm out the detail in the brighter sections of the planet. Below is an Image I got last night. I think that it shows a little more detail in the equitorial regions? I find that when recording the AVI the image must be quite faint on the screen.

I abandoned imaging due to the conditions and we spent the rest of the night on the deepsky objects in Sagitarius. Great to see them again (and some of them for the first time)