Contains:  Solar system body or event
Jupiter Great Red Spot and Io shadow transit, Tej Dyal

Jupiter Great Red Spot and Io shadow transit

Jupiter Great Red Spot and Io shadow transit, Tej Dyal

Jupiter Great Red Spot and Io shadow transit

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Description

This is my first ever capture of a Moon transit and quite chuffed with it, although I think I pushed the magnification too much using the 2.7X APM barlow as it was windy and not best seeing, 2X barlow would have probably given me a sharper result. I waited for both, the Great red Spot and the Moon shadow to both appear in the short 20 min window before IO shadow exits the transit.

Date: 25th March 2014

Camera: Canon 650D

Image capture type: 2 mins 5X Live View video capture mode

Prime Focal (2.7X APM barlow projected)

Frames per sec: 10

OTA: Celestron Nexstar 8SE (8inch Schmidt Cassegrain)

Mount: Nexstar Alt-Az Goto

Filters: None

Seeing: decent (67% humidity)

Wind: 15mph

Post processing: Stacking 10% best frames, wavelets sharpen, RGB Balanced in Registax

Levels, smart sharpen, Gaussian Blur in PS5



Pre-shoot prep: Focus using Bahtinov Mask and Live View

Location: Dulwich Sports fields, London

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Jupiter Great Red Spot and Io shadow transit, Tej Dyal