A clear sky at home so I had to go, but found streaky cloud at the observatory. This restricts photography greatly, so I experimented with various configurations of telescopes, hopeful of using the information later. But I usually forget anyway. However, Jupiter came up and hid behind a tree for a while and was quite high when it came out. So I put the webcam on the Vixen and took aim. But the streaky clouds, heavy haze too, got in the way. This is the best of 4 efforts, all with cloud, the videos were constantly flashing bright then dull, making it difficult to set parameters. The above was from a video of 2000 frames, but when processed in Registax and set to "pick the best 90%", it picked out about 200, so I reset to 50% to get 700 frames into the stack, relying on further processing to get a result.
Is this one better? Taken on Sunday the 21st, after the Water Buffalo above. Io has crept into the scene and it's shadow is on the face of the planet too. I've been inclined to process too aggresively, perhaps less is more in this case.
Oh yes, I've tilted the camera differently too, Jupiter hasn't flipped.
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