Seeing condition was pretty good (Alpo seeing 6/10) when I took this picture with my 7″ Orion Maksutov Cassegrain.
I spent 30min collimating the telescope before shooting Jupiter. I used a quality eyepiece at x350 to get pretty symmetric diffraction rings on a 2nd magnitude star. It was I think time well spent.
I am still very surprised by what this small telescope is capable of !
Image processing:
- Registax v5
- Photoshop CS4
- Astra Image wavelet plug in
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