Not brilliant, but not too shabby either.This Jupiter shot was taken through my 6" Dobsonian telescope, with a barlowed Televue Radian 10mm and hand-held digital point-and-shoot (Fuji Finepix A800 8.3 Megapixel).
Conditions were pretty ordinary, lots of air movement. I took about a dozen shots just for fun and this one came out the best. I slightly modified the image in Photoshop through image sharpening and curve adjustment. It's decent, you can see a few cloud bands anyway! There's a fair bit of noise in the image and I tried to remove it using Noiseware but the difference wasn't that noticeable.
4 comments:
I would be very pleased with this image :) keep up the good work
Mark
Thanks, Mark!
it does make me want to go get a fancy camera again. I tried CCD-based astrophotography a while back but got frustrated - could have been the camera and software (Meade DSI).
I've got a Celestron NexImage not doing anything that you can borrow sometime to see how you like it.
I might take you up on that, Jeff! I've heard decent things about that imager...
Cheers,
Phil
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