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First light with Astrovid 2000 :

Jupiter w 4 Galilean moons

Jupiter with Galilean moons, 10th November 1999
200mm SCT F/10 . Manual tracking , no motor drive
Astrovid 2000 in prime focus

Jupiter with webcam showing detail and 3 Galilean moons :

Jupiter 3 Galilean moons webcam

Newly processed Jupiter image from the "First Light" evening - no motor drive :

Jupiter First Light

Jupiter with three "eyes" on 11 Nov 1999 , captured from tape and processed sept 2002 :
Note the inkling of the GRS . No motor drive .

Jupiter 3 eyes

Jupiter with webcam - fair seeing :

Jupiter 180102 webcam

See also  "The changing face of Jupiter" with a few more images .

Saturn 15 Nov 1999 , captured from tape and processed sept 2002 - no motor drive :

Saturn 15 Nov 99

C8 , 200mm SCT @ F 20 , Astrovid 2000 , Hi8 recorder
22 raw frames selected from about 1000 , Stacked with Astrostack , including
Unsharp Mask and Deconvolution (Lucy-Richardson)
IRIS processing Wavelet filtering and a little Unsharp Mask
Finally Levels adjustment in Photoshop .

Jupiter w Galilean moon

Jupiter with a single Galilean moon , 09 December 2000
200mm SCT @ F/40 with tracking motor
Astrovid 2000 in prime focus - fair seeing

First light with Philips Vesta Pro Webcam - fair seeing - the Cassini division was well visible on several raw frames :
Saturn  in colour :

Saturn Webcam 1

Solar X-rays: status
Geomagnetic Field: kpstatus


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Last update 21 January 2006 by Jan Andersen.
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