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I took a picture of #jupiter this morning and I think it's my best one yet! The conditions were the best I've ever seen in my backyard in #purmerend, the Netherlands. Gear: Skywatcher Skymax 180 and ZWO asi 224MC-s. #astrodon #astrophotography
Colour image of Jupiter, a beige sphere with horizontal brown bands. The bottom band is interrupted by the great red spot, a centuries-old storm that looks like a little oval. The beige band in the middle has blueish gray waves.
#astrophotography #Jupiter #Astrodon #purmerend
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Tio
Tio
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Amateur astronomer, outreacher @ University of Amsterdam, crazy cat lady, edible garden enthuisast.

How are you an "amateur"? This photo is incredible! What is your gear/exposure?

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Esther Hanko
Esther Hanko
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@tio Thank you :) Professonal astronomers do research, and that's something I cannot do. The telescope is a Skywatcher Skymax 180. Planetary imaging is a bit different from deepsky: You make videos with the shortest possible exposure times and then you use software to combine the sharpest frames into one sharpened image. I did that 14 times, combined those 14 stacks as we call them and did a little bit of tweaking.
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posiputt ÖvÖ
posiputt ÖvÖ
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very cool! How many frames are stacked here? I have no practical experience with astrophotography beyond the moon, so I'm not sure this question even makes sense :D
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Esther Hanko
Esther Hanko
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@posiputt It makes a lot of sense! For planetaruy astrophotography you take videos with the shortest possible exposure times (and as many frames as possible) and get software to combine the sharpest frames into one. You then sharpen that one frame. I did that 14 times and then used some other software to combine those stacks into one. I'm too lazy to check exactly but each of those 14 stacks was 25% of about 15k frames.
@posiputt ÖvÖ
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Elton Carvalho
Elton Carvalho
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amazing! Seeing the pic I thought you used at least a 300mm scope, but its an 180! Very sharp, beautiful!
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Gina Intheburg 🇺🇦 🌻 🥥🌴
Gina Intheburg 🇺🇦 🌻 🥥🌴
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Stunning!

My inner 12yo in the backyard with her brand new telescope looking up at the night sky is very, very impressed. And, TBH, more than a wee bit envious.

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Kid Mania
Kid Mania
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An incredible image!
And you even managed to avoid having any Starlink sats in the shot...👍
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