Friday night was forecast to clear before midnight so I made the trip over to the observatory to setup the Celestron 9.25″. Right on cue, the clouds cleared (first time that’s happened in a long time) and I got quite a few 3 & 4 minute videos with the webcam and a narrow band IR filter (742nm). This is the result from the last video of the evening at about midnight, 800 frames stacked in Registax 5 with some additional processing in GIMP.
This image shows more detail than I’ve captured before and I put this down to the better than average seeing and a slight tweak to the telescope collimation. Jupiter is very close to opposition and has an apparent diameter of almost 50 arc seconds at the moment. The Great Red Spot is just creeping into view just below the equator on the left hand side.