Planetary Images  (last update: 01/24/04)
(Some Newer Saturn and Jupiter)
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Whoa!  Ken Florentino from the digital astrophoto group processed some of my images using ImagesPlus (http://www.mlunsold.com/) and produced the following results:

Here are a couple of versions of Saturn.  The one on the left is older, on the right is newer.

 Here are some images of Jupiter captured on 1/19/02. Its moon Io is casting a shadow on its face, just below and to the right of center.

Several shots stacked and combined

Stack

Several shots stacked & combined

Another single shot

Single shot

Saturn (STV CCD camera)

Saturn from Jan 19

Jupiter, 1/19/02

Great Red Spot is (barely) visible on upper left area of top dark band.

Moon from STV (old)

Not a planet, included just for fun...

Techniques:  I'm learning how to use Astrostack, and that's what I used for the stacked pix.

Equipment: Olympus C-4040 digital camera, Scopetronix "digi-T" adapter, Takahashi FS-102 telescope, either a UO Klee 2.8x or Celstron 2x barlow lens (or both stacked) and a Celestron 26mm plossl eyepiece.

Planetary Challenges: With planets you need high magnifications, so you need to shoot both through the scope and through a magnifying eyepiece. (All my previous through-the-scope pictures didn't use an eyepiece.) A few more planet pix in the gallery below.

Jupiter

Using an Olympus C-4040 digital Camera

Jupiter, Film

An experiment with 800 film...

Digicam Jupiter #2

Digicam Saturn

Jupiter, film

Kodak E200 slide film, 1/2 sec

Jupiter with Film

1/2 sec, 100 print film

Saturn, film

1 sec, Kodak E200 slide film

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