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Planet Jupiter
Planet Jupiter
Pascal


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Camera: Olympus C-70 / C-7000 Zoom
Location: Kariani, Greece
Date: May 13, 2006
Galleries: Sky, Astrophotography
Date Uploaded: Jan 16, 2010

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 Here is my best effort so far to image this giant planet of our solar system.
The procedure of capturing and processing the image data is quite complicated for anyone without experience, but here follows shortly a description:
I used as imaging telescope the Celestron C8 (SCT) with focal reducer at f6.3 and the camera was hand held (as steadily as possible) over an eyepiece (17mm) at video mode (640x480, 15 frames per second).
The video then was transformed at avi format and processed with Registax v3.
550 individual frames (best out of 650) were aligned, optimized and stacked. Thus the signal to noise ratio was improved by a factor of 23.5 approximately. Furhter processing took place in Photoshop.
Finally a backround of stars (separate photo taken with Takahashi FSQ106 and Canon 1000D) was added as backround to make the whole view more realistic.

Some data about the planet:
Semi-major axis: 5.2 AU (778,400,000 km)
Mean orbital speed: 13.1 km/sec
Orbital eccentricity: 0.048
Equatorial radius: 71,492 km (11.21 x Earth's)
Mass: 1.9 x 10e27 kg (317.8 x Earth's)
Mean density: 1330 kg/m3
Surface gravity: 2.53 (Earth = 1)
Escape speed: 60 km/sec
Surface temperature: 124 K

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 01/16/2010 11:42:24 PM
Very impressive capture Pascal. I have dreams of capturing an image of Jupiter from a telescope. I know there is a lot of work involved here and you deserve serious recognition for this wonderful image!
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