I took a picture of #jupiter this morning and I think it's my best one yet! The conditions were the best I've ever seen in my backyard in #purmerend, the Netherlands. Gear: Skywatcher Skymax 180 and ZWO asi 224MC-s. #astrodon #astrophotography

@estherhanko

Amateur astronomer, outreacher @ University of Amsterdam, crazy cat lady, edible garden enthuisast.

How are you an "amateur"? This photo is incredible! What is your gear/exposure?

@tio Thank you :) Professonal astronomers do research, and that's something I cannot do. The telescope is a Skywatcher Skymax 180. Planetary imaging is a bit different from deepsky: You make videos with the shortest possible exposure times and then you use software to combine the sharpest frames into one sharpened image. I did that 14 times, combined those 14 stacks as we call them and did a little bit of tweaking.