Jupiter
2021 Opposition Imaged Through a Vixen VMC260L 10.6 Inch Modified Cassegrain Telescope
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Jupiter Information and Data courtesy of
The
Nine Planets website
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Time and Date: 05:25 UTC August
24th, 2021 |
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Jupiter's Great Red Spot is very prominent at lower right of planet.
Other smaller storms are visible along the North Equatorial Belt of
Jupiter. Planet Earth would completely fit inside the Great Red
Spot storm. |
Image
Details:
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- Instrument:
Vixen VMC260L 260 mm Modified Cassegrain Telescope @ f/11 (3000mm
native focal length). Dawes Limit of Telescope: 0.45 arc-seconds
- Mount:
Rainbow Astro RST-135 Mount in Alt-Azm Mode on Innorel RT90C Carbon-Fiber Tripod
- Image Scale: 0.17
arc-seconds/pixel
- ADC
Unit: ZWO ADC tuned
for atmospheric dispersion compensation
- Camera:
ZWO ASI178MC color video camera shooting in 16-bit
.Ser file mode and 800x600 ROI mode
- Filters:
Integrated IR/UV Cutoff Filter on Camera
Chip's Protective Window
- Exposure:
.Ser file webcam capture, 3000 frames total in 16-Bit OSC full-color @
90 fps
- Software:
FireCapture V.2.6 capture software,
Auto-Stakkert V.3, Registax Wavelets Ver. 6, Topaz Labs DeNoise AI, Topaz
Labs Gigapixel AI 1.5x enlarge, final processing in Adobe Photoshop CS6
using its Unsharp Mask and other tools
- Location:
Little
Rock, AR., El. 300ft
Date:
05:25
GMT August 24th, 2021
Page Last Updated: 8/30/2021
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Wade Van Arsdale
