The Dutch Observatory

August 20, 2008 on 4:32 pm | In Planets | Comments Off

Having received much advise on proper sampling to arrive at the proper configuration for my imaging setup for Jupiter, I set out to run some test images. 

Jon Wood let me use his old Meade 2x barlow lens which allows the barlow cell to be removed and screw into the nose piece of the DMK camera.  In addition, Jon had a 1/2″ and 1″ extension for the nose piece, which allows 4 different capture sizes.  The results will be put on my website as they are ready. 

Here two images made on Sunday August 17.  One is with the 2x barlow, the second is without but the image size increased 1.5x in Photoshop.  It should be noted that the weather was not good because of clouds.  Some of the image sequences had to be aborted because the brightness faded completely when clouds moved in front of Jupiter.