re: Question for telescope owners

The reason your eye can see it but not the camera is due to the exposure. Jupiter is really bright, and your eye will adjust to where you can see the bands and the moons simultaneously. But you should have a pro-mode on the camera where you can adjust it down and capture the bands & GRS.

The best astrophotography images are done with a DSLR without the lense and an adapter hooked up to the eyepiece, to where the telescope essentially becomes the lense for the camera. Thousands of images are taken and then stacked using software to produce a high resolution image. This same process can also be done with red, green, and blue filters to produce color images of nebulas, etc.