Jupiter with the Great Red Spot 1/3/12 at 19:55 PST
Jupiter with the Great Red Spot 1/3/12 at 19:55 PST
Jupiter with the Great Red Spot 1/3/12 at 19:55 PST
This is a photograph of Jupiter on 1/3/12 at 19:55 PST. The Great Red Spot is prominent in this image, as well as 3 of its moons. From left to right, these moons are Europa, Ganymede and Io.

In this image, North is Up.

Exposure Details
Lens Celestron C-8 SCT at Prime Focus
Focal Length 2000mm
Focal Ratio f/10
 
Mount Schaefer GEM - 7 1/2 Byers Gear
Guiding Unguided
 
Camera Canon 450D - Gary Honis modified
Exposure 205 subexposures of 1/30 second each at ISO 1600
Calibration None
 
Date January 3, 2012 at 19:55 PST
Temperature 53F
SQM Reading
Seeing 3 of 5
Location Pine Mountain Club, California
 
Software Used Images Plus 4.5 for Live View camera control, video processing, stacking, aligning, initial sharpening, and multiresolution sharpening. Photoshop CS5 used for levels and curves, color balance, high pass filter, and saturation adjustments.
Notes This is my first good image of Jupiter using my new 450D with Live View to capture video. I was very pleased how well it worked, although my laptop is only capable of capturing about 10 frames per second. I still need to learn more about processing planetary images, but this seems like a good start.