Tonight the sky was supposed to be really good for Boulder in terms of transparency and seeing (shakiness/"twinkling") so I got to the telescopes 20 minutes before the undergrads were arriving for a lab and hooked my camera up. I love the 7D's video capability. :love: I took about 2.5 min. of video at 30 fps at HD resolution. ISO 500. I ended up using 76 of the 4524 frames taken, so a total of about 2.53 seconds averaged together. The moons were done at ISO 2000 for 30.6 seconds and I ended up averaging 51 of the 918 frames (1.7 seconds). After LOTS of processing on the planet to try to bring out some detail, I superimposed it in place of the super-saturated version in the moon shot. Rotated and labeled and this is the result. It's still not as sharp as I want it, but I think at this point I'm limited by optics and by Boulder's turbulent atmosphere.
wow! that's pretty impressive that you can still manage to get the banding of jupiter to be prominent. my internal space-geek really likes this one.
