thought I'd share a pic I took of Jupiter from the side of the road on the way to the park. I setup my scope had some nice Baja wine while waiting for
dark and had a beautiful view of San Quintin and its volcanos some 45 km to the west.
My camera is B&W but I can shoot through red , green , nd blue filters to get a colour image that I can later combine in Photoshop. This time I
just shot monochrome, but the details turned out nice. Maybe a bit underexposed. The view in the eyepiece was really really nice! Jupiter has the most
detail out of all the planets and due to its fast rotation (under 9 hours) you can see new details rotate into view quite quickly.
Ken Cooke - 1-30-2012 at 09:36 PM
That's great! I love the image!Mexitron - 1-30-2012 at 09:38 PM
Spectacular!Ateo - 1-30-2012 at 09:40 PM
Love it. Thanks!KaceyJ - 1-30-2012 at 09:44 PM
How far is Jupiter from earth?
Thank you for the amazing photo!
Wish I had time to know a fraction of what you do.
Size difference between Earth and Jupiter
David K - 1-30-2012 at 11:16 PM
David K - 1-30-2012 at 11:18 PM
Quote:
Originally posted by KaceyJ
How far is Jupiter from earth?
Thank you for the amazing photo!
Wish I had time to know a fraction of what you do.
Because both planets orbit the sun, the distance varies, since at some times both will be on the same side of the sun, but at other times, on opposite
sides.
When Jupiter and Earth are closest, Jupiter is 390,682,810 miles (628,743,036 km) from Earth. The Earth is 93,000,000 miles (149,668,992 km) from the
Sun. Jupiter is 483,682,810 miles (778,412,028 km) from the Sun. At our most distant, Jupiter is 576,682,810 miles (928,081,020 km) from the Earth,
when the two planets are on opposite sides of the Sun. Measured in Astronomical Units (AU), the distance between Earth and Jupiter varies from 4.2 AU
to 6.2 AU.
Way cool... thanks for sharing ...bacquito - 2-2-2012 at 08:07 AM
Wow, great shot and to think you did this while enjoying a great Baja wine. I admire you
[Edited on 2-2-2012 by bacquito]astrobaja - 2-2-2012 at 11:58 AM
Thanks everybody, I attached a reworked image. Brighter than the 1st one.
bacquito no idid my "one" glass waiting for dark and appreciating the sunset!
After that its one hand on the laptop and the other controlling the scope
My main empahsis that night was on capturing the moon, heres one of the shots, smallest details are in the 3-400 yard range, no flag sorry even Hubble can't do that (lots of people ask that one)
And the camera is really a high speed digital camera with high sensitivity and dynamic range. I shoot a short uncompressed movie of say 1000 frames in
90 seconds and then the sharpest individual frames are stacked in software and processed in Photoshop. The video files are really big, the one I used
for the moon shot was 3.6 gig so you need a fast laptop with a USB2 connection.
Real interesting, AstroBaja. Nice to add some thing different to the fray. Post more as you do them, pleasewessongroup - 2-6-2012 at 11:49 AM
Thanks much astrobaja ... really cool setup ... and great photos and links...
Have a Celestron NexStar 8 SE ... not even close ... but, its fun.. have it set up to work off my computer inside .. with the scope outside... no
camera attached yet...
And ... after your pictures ... may just pass.. yours are so, so nice...
A great place ya got to see things... out "there" ....
Wouldn't mind a energy saving proclamation ... all exterior lights off at night .. except traffic etc... would sure make viewing things a bit easier
in Southern Cal... remember growing up in the 50's sleeping in the back yard... seeing the milky way very clearly at night... not so anymore..
[Edited on 2-6-2012 by wessongroup]astrobaja - 2-8-2012 at 10:26 AM
Wessongroup:
A C8 is a fine scope! Lots of people take very nice pictures with them! Remember I've been at this for years, but you could get some good images of
the moon if you got a adapter for your dslr. San Diego has a good astronomy club http://www.sdaa.org/ They have meetings and get together at their dark sky observatory towards the Laguna Mts. www.cloudynights.com has a great forums area if you ever have any questions.
no idid my "one" glass waiting for dark and appreciating the sunset!
After that its one hand on the laptop and the other controlling the scope 