My second attempt at capturing Jupiter ( the gas giant) with a webcam. This time I used a free software program called Castrator which does a great job of aligning the 2000 images. The next step uses another free program called registax which stacks and enhances the image.
Astrophotography is a lot more difficult than I thought. Its very time consuming aligning the telescope and camera in the dark and cold at 2am. I'm pushing my Meade telescope to its limits and much of the equipment I have is homemade, so to produce images like this which show alot more detail than can be seen by looking through the scope makes it all well worth it.
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