A 3 hours gap in the cloud cover Friday evening had seeing and transparency at “average”. Jupiter was high up and was showing the Great Red Spot leaving the face. The first image run of the night captured a moon shadow but I am not sure if it was Europa or Io yet.
I left the system running unattended for 10 minutes and tracking was not perfect and Jupiter drifted out of the field of view. I have to start researching a method to allow the software to command the scope to keep the target centred in the Field of View.
Image runs were 90 seconds. Exposures were a little high and got worse at times, showing transparency getting worse. Exposure ranged from 40 to 50 ms.
Processing started with replaying the .AVIs and discarding any that had Jupiter move out of the FOV.
Castrator was then used on the remaining to shrink the image down to 400×400 pixels and centre it.
AutoStakkert! was then used to analyze set approx 20 alignment points and processed with the best 75% being used here.
Registax was then used to autobalance RGB and to do wavelet processing using my “jupiter” settings.
Finally, a linux bash script annotated the images with the UT time and equipment notes, then combined them into an animated .GIF and an .MPG video.
This is the animated .GIF below.
20160409 from 01:32 to 02:04 UT