I simply had to post this image from last night.
There’s more work to do, but I am amazed that my little telescope can produce images like this. The features are real – they are on two images reduced from video taken 10 minutes apart. Io is the little dot to the left of Jupiter.
This is the best 20% of 3000 frames, about 10ms exposure each at about 100 frames per second. It’s very heavily processed with unsharp masking, but the features are real. I have about a dozen of these videos to reduce; it will be interesting to see if I can produce an even better image by combining them. I have to remember that Jupiter rotates pretty quickly …