Crosshairs on Jupiter

[ebb]

rogn one of my customers owns 6000 acres just east of the thoroughbred training center on Hwy 76 out side of Indiantown. He has been burned so many times buy hunters, trespassers and poachers, he won't let anybody hunt on his property and it is covered up with hogs. You could kill a bunch of them even with a Creedmoor.

 

[T-shooter]

Nope, mine is a stack of frames taken from a video recording. There is free software out there that will analyze video, then stack the best % of frames into a single image. In my case since I was using a mono camera with filters, I took three 24 second videos (one for each RGB filter). Stacked the best 50% for each filter. Then combined them in editing software to make the rgb image.

There is free software that will do this. I used a program called AutoStakkert. An other one is called registax. They both stack video. Then you would use a photo editing program for post processing.. like sharpening, boosting saturation, pulling out faint details, etc. For stacking single exposures, DeepSkyStacker is another free program that I've used for deep sky objects (Nebuals, Galaxies, etc).

You could do the same with your camera.. except you just need one video file. Jupiter's rotation is pretty fast so you'll want to keep the recording under 2 mins.

The moons are probably there in the 1/30th image. With editing software you can mask Jupiter to protect it, then boost the brightness by stretching the histogram to pull the moons out.

When I'm not pulling the trigger I'm out taking pictures of the night sky

Some of my stuff can be seen here: https://www.astrobin.com/users/JamesR/

Thanks for the info. I usually just do everything in Photoshop and usually shoot in RAW and then process later. I never tried working from video. I think I tried the Registax or a program similar to it. I also use a small red dot sight on the camera. It's almost impossible to find a small object without it. It's accurate enough to get the object someplace near the center of the frame. I need to get a manual fine adjustment for the tripod too. I've taken a lot of the moon, also Mars, Venus, and a couple of Saturn.

 

[snert]

I am not very rich, so Jupiter is outta my realm. However, Mars (PA) is only 10 miles away, and with a Creedmore I bet I could hit one of the spaceships, dead center. Oh...maybe not. I gave my talisman away after it started turning my chest green and my wife said I was acting twenty again...fearing a heart attack I gave it up.

 

[Gun Smith]

Awesome photo RWH!