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Jupiter at Opposition 08/04/2017

Taken with an 8" Ritchie Chretien telescope and Canon 1100D on an EQ6 mount

Top image is a composite of 2 single shots, one exposed to bring out the Galilean Moons, the other to try and maintain Jupiter's cloud detail. They were merged in Photoshop using a layer mask

 

Middle image was captured using Backyard EOS at 5x magnification. 2000 frame video shot, the best 55% stacked using Autostakkert! 3 and tweaked in Registax 6, Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer

 

Bottom image was captured using Backyard EOS at 10x magnification. 2000 frame video shot, the best 30% stacked using Autostakkert! 3 and tweaked in Registax 6, Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer

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Uploaded on April 9, 2017