Jupiter Rotation - image data was captured over several months in 2017

Celestron C11, 4x TeleVue Powermate, ZWO RGB FIlter Set, ZWO ASI174MM, Pierro Astro ADC

 

9 RGB image runs taken over several months in 2017 were used to make the image map of Jupiter I used to make this full rotation video.

 

Several small parts of Jupiter were missing (mainly on the poles) so I copied and pasted similar looking detail into those areas, just so that I could complete the map (note: as such the map is not 100% accurate, only about 94%)

 

When the seeing was not as good I have attempted to compensate for those by sharpening those more, and by also blurring back the images captured on the better nights.

 

To integrate (blend) the images together - I used the map tools in Winjupos to initially create a master (with all 9 maps added, just showing their best parts), then manually blended (in photoshop) the parts that varied quite a bit in sharpness/colour and brightness - it took about 1 full day to blend the images for this rotation !

 

Each of the 9 images I captured images were either RGB or LRGB runs vids taken over 20mins to an hour between May-July 2017...

 

Software Used: Firecapture, Autostakkert, Registax, Winjupos & Photoshop

 

Merseyside, UK

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Uploaded on November 7, 2020