Re: New "DSI Pro" and Wireless AutoStar from Meade!

In article <mk8o51hqfkm8o81fmsc00pb0hibstcq809@xxxxxxx>,
Chris L Peterson <clp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Just the opposite, you probably have better seeing conditions than I do.
>The better your seeing, the shorter the period available for imaging
>Jupiter (given a peak smearing rate at the equator of 1" every 257
>seconds).

I'd have thought the rotation of Jupiter wasn't _that_ difficult to
model by (OK, paying careful attention to sub-pixels) rotating all the
images back to a reference time; OK, you'll lose a little on the
limbs, and you might need quite careful metrology on the image to get
the region rotated precisely right, but I shouldn't have thought long
exposures of mid-disc regions of Jupiter were entirely impossible.

Am I missing something? I know Jupiter doesn't rotate as a solid body,
but I think that's a second-order effect.

Tom

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