Antilhue - Chile
Antilhue - Chile
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| Designation | Jupiter |
| Object type | Outer planet |
| Description | My first attempt at planetary work to get a feel for image scale, exposure times, etc. The jovian day lasts less than 10 hours, so all individual exposures must be taken within 2-3 minutes to avoid blurring due to rotational movement. Jupiter's apparent equatorial diameter was 45.4 arcseconds covered by 220 pixels on the ST-10XE chip. This experience showed that planetary work needs different processing software and skills. |
| Exposure | L 0.1 s @ -15°C, average of 7 selected exposures |
| Camera | SBIG ST-10XE + SBIG CFW-8 + Astronomik IR-reject clear filter |
| Optics | Astro-Physics AP155EDFS + projection by Baader FFC to approx. f/44 |
| Mount | Astro-Physics AP1200GTO |
| Software | MaxIm DL/CCD, CCDOPS, AIP4WIN, Adobe Photoshop 6.0 |
| Location - Date - Time | San Esteban (Chile) - 26Jan2003 - 04:30 UTC |
| Conditions | Transparency 6, Seeing 5, Temperature +17°C |
