Jupiter's Rotation

Time lapse of Jupiter's rotation over a 2 hour period. Taken with an 8" LX200 Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope and Meade LPI camera. Dew heaters were not applied until midway into the imaging session, resulting in uneven brightness.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Space
• astronomy
• astrophotography
• Jupiter

[Zorack10]

I have a Dew Buster did you have yours behind a dew shield or without?

[messierhunter]

I have a dew shield but I didn't have it on at the time because I wasn't planning on being out for more than a few minutes. I put some Kendrick heaters on halfway through when I realized I was already getting dew, but it took the rest of the imaging session to beat it back.

[vomit49894]

How did you animate? This is what I want to do (I have an LX90/LNT and the LPI). Nice work!!!

[messierhunter]

I manually created the animation frame by frame. If I had it to do again I'd start with a polar alignment, not an alt-az alignment - trying to manually de-rotate the entire sequence of images is nearly impossible.

[solidsnake1972]

hey, awsome vid. so do you like the lpi cause i might get one. oh also did you use a barlow if so which one did you use.

[messierhunter]

I used a 2x Celestron Ultima barlow.

[papabone61]

Great imaging