All these pictures of were taken using the Meade 2x Barlow with a 10 inch Meade LX200 GPS telescope and a Logitech Quickcam Pro 4000.

Bad seeing - here are 20 percent of the processed results anyway.

Unfortunately Sutherland has its (fair ?) share of fast seeing nights as well.

4 May 2007: 23h06

50 frames out of 300

Plan was to determine how long I could expose Jupiter for with the telescope in Polar Mode.

During the past few days I exposed for 60 seconds - these exposures were for 120 seconds.

Unfortunately the bad seeing made it impossible to determine the correct exposure duration - before Jupiter's rotation started smearing the image.

I also wanted to determine the correct number of frames to stack: 50, 100, 150 or 200 out of 600. I could not determine this because of the bad seeing.

I got two formulas to determine max. exp. time for Jupiter. One answer is 120 seconds - the other answer is 180 seconds.

Doing the polar alignment using Astrosnap was ... a snap.

Doing polar alignment was straightforward using its built in facility ... as shown in this severely compressed JPG screen print.

Ganymede is on the left.

Conclusion: Results inconclusive - bad seeing.

4 May 2007: 23h06
100 frames out of 300

4 May 2007: 23h06
150 frames out of 300

4 May 2007: 23h06
200 frames out of 300