Jupiter with Io Eclipse and Europa

Jupiter
All Images Copyright Steve Cannistra

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Characteristics:
Image scale:  0.12 arcsec/pixel
South pole at top, rotating from right to left

Photographic Details:
Dates:  April 15, 2016, 8:17 PM
EDT (UT 00:17), video capture from 10:30 to 11:30PM EST
Scope:  Celestron 9.25" (235mm), native focal length 2350mm, f10 (used at f25 with Televue 2.5x 1.25" Powermate, with a functional focal length of 5875mm)
Camera:  Skyris 132 monochrome video camera, pixel size 3.5 um, with Starlight Xpress USB powered 5 position filter wheel for 2" filters
Filters: 
2" mounted Baader LRGB filters
Seeing conditions:  Poor
Location:  Needham, MA
Post-processing: Video capture in FireCapture, video stacking in AutoStakkert!, further stacking in Winjupos, wavelet processing in Registax, final processing in Photoshop (LRGB combine) using a combination of Astraimage, Topaz denoise, and unsharp masking
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