Best Shot of Jupiter Yet

BESTYET

I have a new set of students doing their 3rd year projects on the telescope and they are very good.  I will post some of their stuff soon.  However, tonight I was out on the roof with them and after even the most enthusiastic one ran out of steam, I still felt like having a go at Jupiter, just a quick go, so I stayed up alone.

Two extremely frustrating hours later I managed to spend about 34 seconds getting this.

I’m supposed to do the following official bit now, people complain when I don’t so here goes:-

3000 shots at 83 frames per second, best 50% stacked, 2.5x televue barlow, skyris 618c, Celestron C14, about a million Zeiss lens wipes and an awful lot of bad language.

The students got some awesome images too, including an object we’ve never seen before.  I’ll report this soon, but I need to give them a chance to analyse their data first… (I’ve done a sneak analysis.  It’s awesome data.)

2 thoughts on “Best Shot of Jupiter Yet

  1. Nice one!And good weather in London.
    May I ask if I could also use the telescope if I’m not a student doing project here? BTW, I’m a fourth year student at King’s and have some experience playing with my own 80/600 refracting telescope (not a goid one :p )

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