I need a little help on enhancing these blury images of Jupiter. I got photoshop 8 and can use it but cant find how to enhance this image.

Please help.

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You can see clearly that the red and blue are shifted in your image. This is caused by the atmosphere when imaging something near the horizon.

Jupiter is too low to the horizon to get a good image right now.

Suggest you shift targets. Mars is a very easy target in the morning near sunrise.
The moon will be full later this week and will be visible most of the night.

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Just curious- I know there are specific factors that must come into play, but what is the ballpark cutoff date for good imaging of planets? Surely the camera, telescope, conditions, etc make a difference, but at what altitude is it generally not possible to get good pictures?

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Just responding to you aeolus, my telescope is a 700mm fl bushmaster telescope, and the camera is a kodak CX7430 digital camera.

you sure it s jupiter i suspect it maybe venus if you see two bright abject around 9 facing west the highest one is jupiter

and even if it s low its at 16 deg should be ok ,, you should be able to get a pic

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I think that this is the effect of a simple barlow lens you used, or not-so good eyepiece (used for projection, I guess).
You have to have those things sorted out before starting to think about enhancemet software. Also, it is always a good idea to have everything close to optical axis (I presume this image was near the edge of the frame? And, was the camera moutded properly (that means, with adapter so that the objective of the camera was aligned with optical axis of the telescope?) All of those thing matter a lot..... :-)
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