Photos of the Jupiter with Heritage P130 - 2015

Jupiter Attempts (April 12, 2015) | Further Jupiter Attempts (April 13, 2015) | Jupiter Moons (April 23, 2015)

In April 2015, I tested the combination of the Ricoh A12-50 camera unit with the Revelation DigiScope 32 mm eyepiece and my Meade 10" Dobson telescope. This time, I mounted to camera fix to the eyepiece (projection method). Regrettably, the low magnification (40 x) is not sufficient for photos of planets, as the following photos clearly demonstrate.

Jupiter Attempts (April 12, 2015)

Attempts from April 12, 2015:

Jupiter, 100% (made brighter in PSE)

Jupiter with 3-4 moons (made brighter in PSE)

Jupiter is too bright to make its stripes as well as its moons visible. Here, I made the photo brighter so that the moons appear (with the eye, I was able to see both the moon and the Jupiter stripes in the camera's viewfinder)

Jupiter, 400% (magnified in PSE)

Jupiter with 3-4 moons (made even more bright in PSE)

Jupiter is too bright to make its stripes as well as its moons visible. Here, I made the photo even more brighter so that the moons appear but also the background noise (with the eye, I was able to see both the moon and the Jupiter stripes in the camera's viewfinder)

Further Jupiter Attempts (April 13, 2015)

One day later, the results were even worse:

Jupiter, 100%

Jupiter, 400% (magnified in PSE)

Jupiter Moons (April 23, 2015)

Attempt from April 23, 2015 with - fuzzy - moons (Jupiter gets too bright when you attempt to capture the moons):

Jupiter with four moons, 100%