Jupiter on August 25th 2022 with The Great Red Spot (GRS)

Here is Jupiter on the night of August 25th, 2022. Just about 1 month away from Opposition. The Seeing was about a 3.5-4 out 5.  Jupiter’s max altitude was 50 degrees and this image was taken with frames from 40 degrees up to 50 degrees Altitude.

Equipment used:

Apertura AD12 12″ Dobsonian Telescope 

iOptron CEM70

ZWO174mm

ZWO LRGB Filters & a 5-Position ZWO mini filter wheel.

Baader Q-Turret Barlow extended out for about 4x Magnification

Rigel nStep Auto Focuser.

Programs Used:

FireCapture: for the image capture

PIPP: to Center and Quality order the frames

AutoStakkert 3: to stack the individual channels of Red Green and Blue (RGB)

Registax 6: I used the Wavelets to bring out the details

WinJupos: I used 10 sets of 60-second exposures per Channel.

Photoshop: I used to combine the RGB channels and further Post Processing to get the Final image.

Each Channel Consisted of about 12,000 to 15000 Frames each and I stacked the best 12% of them in Auto Stakkert 3.