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Jupiter on June 4, 2019, JDJ

Jupiter on June 4, 2019

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging
Jupiter on June 4, 2019, JDJ

Jupiter on June 4, 2019

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Imaged Jupiter on the night of June 3/4, 2019. Main objectives of this observing session were to collimate the scope and watch Io exiting from Jupiter's shadow (GRS was not visible from my location this evening). Seeing varied from poor to average. I was able to take advantage of some moments of good seeing to perform an out of focus collimation on the scope before imaging Jupiter, but seeing deteriorated before I was able to work on an in focus collimation. Unfortunately, seeing deteriorated by the time Jupiter was visible above the tree. I grabbed a series of image sets with UV-IR Cut and IR 685 nm pass filters before collecting images of the Io transit using just the UV-IR cut filter.

Imaged with a C8 Evo, custom Siebert 2x barlow, ZWO ADC, Baader UV-IR Cut/Baader IR 685 nm Pass filters, and ZWO ASI224MC. Imaging train was configured to give me ~F/20. Image capture using Firecapture with gain set at 300 and exposure at 8 ms. Stacking in AutoStakkert3 (best 25% of ~20,000 frames captured over 180 seconds.). Color balancing and Wavelet sharpening in Registax6. Derotated and combined three images for each filter in WinJUPOS. Final sharpening and color saturation tweaking in Registax6. Composite image generated using GIMP.

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