jupiter near opposition 2023

jupiter is bright in the evening sky now.  well positioned for northern hemisphere viewers, it transits just before midnight at an altitude of almost 70 degrees from my location.  

here's jupiter on halloween night, shortly before opposition, the seeing wasn't as good as i'd hoped, but managed to salvage something:

  

Jupiter 11/1/2023 06:53 UTC
little red spot
just above center?

imaging details

eastbluff, CA

11/1/23 06:43-0658 UTC

CM1 37.8, CM2 196.6, CM3 233.7

celestron 11" Edge HD

ZWO ASI 290MC (one shot color camera)

2x barlow

ZWO ADC

baader IR/UV block filter

best 5  of 90 second captures from 06:43-06:58 UTC

FPS (avg.)=27-110

Shutter=3.174ms

Gain=351 (58%)

Histogramm=32%

inadvertantly put the ADC after the barlow

resulting in massive over magnification on a night of mediocre seeing :(

interestingly, learned that displaying the very large image during capture on my laptop monitor slowed the capture rate

viewing at 25% improved the capture rate

downsampled to 37.5 % :(

software:

firecapture

autostakkert

winjupos

registax

photoshop