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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
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Esther Hanko

@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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Esther Hanko

@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.
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