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J3RRYLIKESCHEESE OP t1_iuc0nr6 wrote

Reply to comment by ZSpectre in A three hour time-lapse of Jupiter I took with my 10 inch telescope by J3RRYLIKESCHEESE

Yes, something like that. Most likely it was due to some thin low clouds passing in front of Jupiter but it could have also been due to wind making the air unstable causing more refraction. Also, towards the end of the time-lapse it was mostly due to the altitude, the lower Jupiter was in the sky, the more atmosphere light had to pass through resulting in a blurred image.

This is also why telescopes are usually on mountain tops, to avoid the effects of atmospheric distortion as much as possible :)

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J3RRYLIKESCHEESE OP t1_iubjk7y wrote

Reply to A three hour time-lapse of Jupiter I took with my 10 inch telescope by J3RRYLIKESCHEESE

Here is my 3.5 hour time-lapse of Jupiter that I captured using my 10 inch Dobsonian from my backyard in Salem, OR between 12 and 3:30am PST on September 25, 2022.

Process: Shot over 70, 90 second videos resulting in over 200GB of data. Then, batch stacking done in AutoStakkert where the best 15-30% frames were stacked. Wavelets and RGB alignment done in AstroSurface, and then final color, brightness and contrast adjustments were done in GIMP using batch image manipulation plugin. Finally, the animation was made using Davinci Resolve video editing software, and converted to GIF using PIPP.

Gear: Skywatcher 10" GoTo Dob, X-Cel 3x, ZWO ADC, ASI178MC + UV/IR cut filter

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J3RRYLIKESCHEESE OP t1_iubcd4k wrote

Reply to Here's a collage of some of my best photos of that planets I've taken with my telescope this year by J3RRYLIKESCHEESE

Here is some of my best planetary work this year put together in this collage. They're not 1:1 scale, but this is their apparent size when viewed from Earth at 5400mm with a 10 inch telescope (except for Uranus and Neptune, I upscaled those by 200% for aesthetic purposes). From left to right: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. All imaged in RGB except for Uranus which is (R)RGB using a 610nm filter to bring out the polar cap, and Mercury and Venus used IR data as well with 807nm filter. To take these images I used my Skywatcher 10" GoTo Dobsonian, X-Cel 3x barlow, ZWO ADC, and ASI178 camera + filters. As well as a variety of software: SharpCap, AutoStakkert, Registax/AstroSurface, and GIMP.

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