C8 images

B/W Jupiter
Image taken & processed by : Edward Tam, SK Lee & Eric Ng
Date: 6/11/2000 Time: 2:13am, 2:23am, 2:25am, 2:27am HKT
Location: Tai Po site
Telescope: Celestron C8
Mount: Tak EM10
Camera: Starlight Express SXL-8
Transparency: 5/10 drop Seeing: 6~7/10
Exposure: 0.5 sec
Method: Pentax XP 24mm
Processing Method: Unsharp Masking + Adaptive with astroart.

Crater Gassendi
Image taken and processed by: Edward Tam & Eric Ng
Date: 10/10/2000
Time: 00:30 HKT
Location: Tai Po site
Telescope: Celestron C8
Mount: Tak EM10
Camera: Starlight Express SXL-8
Transparency: 5/10 Seeing: 3/10
Exposure: 3/10 sec
Method: 2X ETL2 barlow added
Processing Method: Weak Unsharp Masking + Adaptive

Crater Copernicus
Image taken by: Edward Tam and Eric Ng
Image processed: Mandy Tung
Date: 8/10/2000
Time: 19:30 HKT
Telescope: Celestron C8 SCT
Mount: Tak EM-10USD
Camera: Starlight-Express SXL-8 CCD Camera
Expsoure: 1/5 sec
Transparency: 5/10 Seeing: 5/10
Method: ETL2 2X Barlow
Processing method: weak unsharp a few time + adaptive + Gamma adjustment

New!!! Jupiter short rotation animated GIF

B/W Jupiter
Taken by: Edward Tam, Mandy Tung and Eric Ng
Date: 2/10/2000
Time: 03:07 HKT
Telescope: Celestron C8 SCT
Mount: Tak EM-10USD
Camera: Starlight-Express SXL-8 CCD
Camera Expsoure: 1/2 sec
Transparency: 8/10
Seeing: 8/10
Method: Pentax XP24mm eyepiece projection Processing method: Stacking of 20frames + unsharp masking+ adaptive a few time.

RGB Jupiter
Taken by: Edward Tam, Mandy Tung and Eric Ng
Date: 2/10/2000
Time: 03:20 HKT
Telescope: Celestron C8 SCT
Mount: Tak EM-10USD
Camera: Starlight-Express SXL-8 CCD
Camera Expsoure: 1.5 sec for each RGB channel
Transparency: 8/10
Seeing: 8/10
Method: Pentax XP24mm eyepiece projection
Processing method: Stacking of 9 frames for each RGB channel + linked unsharp masking + gaussian blur. Astroart and Photoshop used.

RGB Jupiter
Taken by: Edward Tam, Mandy Tung and Eric Ng
Date: 2/10/2000
Time: 04: 15 HKT
Telescope: Celestron C8 SCT
Mount: Tak EM-10USD
Camera: Starlight-Express SXL-8 CCD
Camera Expsoure: 1.5 sec for each RGB channel
Transparency: 8/10
Seeing: 8/10
Method: Pentax XP24mm eyepiece projection Processing method: Stacking of 9 frames + linked unsharp masking + gaussian blur. Astroart used.

Processed with weak unsharp masking	Processed with strong unsharp masking

Best B/W Saturn
Taken by: Edward Tam, Mandy Tung and Eric Ng
Date: 1/10/2000
Time: 03:15 HKT
Telescope: Celestron C8 SCT
Mount: Tak EM-10USD
Camera: Starlight-Express SXL-8 CCD
Camera Expsoure: 1 sec X 25
Transparency: 8/10
Seeing: 8/10
Method: Pentax XP24mm eyepiece projection
Processing method: Stacking of 25 frames + unsharp masking. Because of enough frame stacking, no gaussian blur is needed for noise reduction. Astroart used.

RGB Jupiter
Taken by: Edward Tam, Mandy Tung and Eric Ng
Date: 1/10/2000 Time: 04: 27 HKT
Telescope: Celestron C8 SCT
Mount: Tak EM-10USD
Camera: Starlight-Express SXL-8 CCD Camera
Expsoure: 1 sec for each RGB channel
Transparency: 8/10
Seeing: 8/10
Method: Pentax XP24mm eyepiece projection
Processing method: Stacking of 5 frames for each RGB channel + linked unsharp masking + gaussian blur. Astroart and Photoshop used

B/W Jupiter
Taken by: Edward Tam, Mandy Tung and Eric Ng
Date: 1/10/2000
Time: 04: 00 HKT
Telescope: Celestron C8 SCT
Mount: Tak EM-10USD
Camera: Starlight-Express SXL-8 CCD
Camera Expsoure: 1/2 sec for each RGB channel
Transparency: 8/10
Seeing: 8/10
Method: Pentax XP24mm eyepiece projection
Processing method: Stacking of 40 frames + linked unsharp masking + gaussian blur. Astroart used.

C8 Jupiter & Io
Taken by: Edward Tam and Eric Ng
Date: 17/09/2000 03:150HKT
Location: Hong Kong Tai Mei Tuk Observing Site
Seeing: 7/10 Trannsparency: 4/10
Telescope: C8
Camera: Starlight-Express SXL-8 cooled CCD
Exposure: 1 sec
No of Stacking: 9 frames
Capturing Method: Pentax XP24mm eyepiece projection
Image processing method: Stacking and linked unsharp masking with Astro-art image processing software.

R(G)B Jupiter
Taken by: Edward Tam and Eric Ng
Date: 17/09/2000 02:45HKT
Location: Hong Kong Tai Mei Tuk Observing Site
Seeing: 7/10 Trannsparency: 4/10
Telescope: C8
Camera: Starlight-Express SXL-8 cooled CCD
Exposure: 2 sec for each RGB channel
No of Stacking: 9 frames for each R&B channels, the G channel is the average of R&B channel
Capturing Method: Pentax XP24mm eyepiece projection
Image processing method: Stacking and linked unsharp masking with Astro-art image processing software.

Saturn
Taken by: Edward Tam and Eric Ng
Date: 17/09/2000 02:00HKT
Location: Hong Kong Tai Mei Tuk Observing Site
Seeing: 7/10 Trannsparency: 4/10
Telescope: C8
Camera: Starlight-Express SXL-8 cooled CCD
Exposure: 2 sec No of Stacking: 9 frames
Capturing Method: Pentax XP24mm eyepiece projection
Image processing method: Stacking and linked unsharp masking with Astro-art image processing software.