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.
I would be very pleased with this image :) keep up the good work
ReplyDeleteMark
Thanks, Mark!
ReplyDeleteit 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.
ReplyDeleteI might take you up on that, Jeff! I've heard decent things about that imager...
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Phil