As I wrote on my previous post, an exceptionally good weather kept me outside pretty much every night just when Jupiter was at its best.
On April the 7th, during its opposition, I was able to capture a sequence of 4 sets of video captures, each one in RGB. I tried to optimize as much as possible my timings, in order to keep rotational differences between frames under control. This will probably be even easier on a future Planetary Imager release, when I'll implement a scripting interface.
The results are even better than the previous evening.
I was able to take 4 images, and create an animation displaying Jupiter's rotation and its satellites.
A few more summerlike days, and a few more astronomical shots.
It was sunny, and with a very good seeing from Thursday to Saturday night, just in time for Jupiter's opposition, when it's closer to Earth, and then bigger and easier to capture.
But since I wasn't very happy with my previous Jupiter shots, the first of these three nights I mainly took pictures of the moon.
I began by using my newest camera, an ASI 1600mm: it's more of a deep sky camera, not very suitable for planets and moon: 3.8 µm pixel size instead of 2.4µm of my other camera, an ASI 178mm, and bigger pixels means lower resolution. It also has a much wider sensor, which slows down capturing (and fast framerates is a key element to get high resolution images), but this is also an advantage from another point of view: I was able to capture the whole moon disk in just a single shot, instead of the usual mosaic.
This is the result, in my opinion one of my best looking images ever: