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Old 12-04-2006, 04:28 PM
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Big night for Jovian followers

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Tonight's looking good for followers of Big Jove, with the GRS rising at around 10pm, where Jupiter will still be low but worth a look. Io will be egressing the disc of Jupiter at around 10:30pm.

The action heats up for the next few hours, where GRS transits the CM at approximately midnight, while Ganymede's shadow follows a short time behind.

Red Jr will transit the CM about 45 minutes after the GRS.

Ganymede will skim the edge of big Jove from around 2am - 3am, and should make a very interesting sight.

Callisto will be passing to the South underneath around about 3am.

So, lots of moon action, lots of red spot action! Shame the jetstream looks so bad for me, but I hope someone gets some great views and images!
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Old 12-04-2006, 05:10 PM
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busy night for the gasey one hey!
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Old 12-04-2006, 05:37 PM
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and dead on 100% moon too!
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Old 12-04-2006, 06:08 PM
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thanks ice, forget the jetstream, look after your sick little family, It is not looking good here at all, but i will take a look
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Old 12-04-2006, 08:37 PM
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Thanks for the heads up Mike.

I'm too trashed after 2 consecutive all nighters followed by a mid-nighter to dawn this morning, so I'm afraid I won't be out there tonight, I'd probably do something silly and crash the 'scope, or worse still...leave the lens cap on!

Good luck to those who are able to have a go.

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Old 12-04-2006, 10:00 PM
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Dennis why don't you admit it and just say you are getting to old for all these long nights..
Good luck to all the others I hope you get some good images
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Old 12-04-2006, 10:53 PM
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A family photo

Ok I'll get the ball rolling with a Jovian Family Photo.

Time taken 22:45
ToUcam on 8" meade SCT. Rough and ready through registax and then into PS to make the children look presentable.
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Old 12-04-2006, 11:05 PM
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i have just come in from viewing that exact site.

top image!

Lots of high cloud, but seeing is around 6-7/10
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Old 12-04-2006, 11:14 PM
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Seeing is not too bad here but I've a lot of tube currents atm. Hopefully it will settle down in the next hour.
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Old 12-04-2006, 11:25 PM
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Hot off the presses for the cloud bound

Hot of the press. Somethin' funny going on though. I'm getting what looks like chromatic aberation even when viewing on the laptop. Wonder if that is from the barlow?

Anyway...
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I think I had good seeing tonight

Well it's 02:30 and I gotta go to bed but I thought I'd leave you with a random sample of what I captured up tonight. This is an image from about half way through the stack. Straight of the Registax floor with only wavelets 3, 4, 5, & 6 done and using PS "Save for Web" where I up sized from 640 wide to 800 wide;

I'm happy with it
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Old 13-04-2006, 03:09 AM
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Well, I came in about half an hour ago from a two hour imaging session with Jup (and a little bit of the moon inbettwen). Thanks for starting this thread Mike, or i wouldn't have gone out in the first place.

I had a cracker of a night. I decided to try my had at my first animation of Jupiter. It starts with the GRS in about the middle of jup (the CM isn't it?) until the shadow transit finished. About 14 or so frames I believe (about 30mins of avi to get throug). We're going away for easter, and are leaving home at about 10.30am, so I am trying to get as much done as I can now. I might stay up until I have all the avis on the computer (about half way done now), then get up at 6 to start processing. Might sleep in the car on the trip. =P

EDIT: finally got it all onto the computer. With 100mb to spare, I was pretty lucky to fit it all! One of my first test shots is turning out quite nicely, so I think i've about achieved what I wanted for the night.

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Old 13-04-2006, 05:58 AM
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wow paul, the last one has potential from astra image. The others are great too.

Early in the night as i took the scope out, there was no twinkle in the stars - none at all. later as reported, seing was 6 to 7/10. Not sure what seeing was for the rest of the night due to an obstruction....you guessed it clouds!
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Old 13-04-2006, 06:38 AM
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Looks you all had a great night with Jupiter.

Paul - those images are just fantastic! Msg #11 in particular is simply stunning with the GRS, the moons and the moon shadow, thanks for posting the results so quickly and for the CNN style running commentary.

Ron - yes, the years are catching up I'm afraid, I'm having to pace myself.

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Old 13-04-2006, 07:10 AM
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Awesome Paul, i'd love to have a go at your avi if you send me your best one!
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Old 13-04-2006, 07:13 AM
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Good job Paul
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Old 13-04-2006, 07:16 AM
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I'm going to be busy today and tomorrow and the day after. Good thing rain is forecast for the next couple of evenings. I've got something like 36 or 37 avie (total about 10 Gig) to go through new and I think some of them look better than that last on I posted

Right now I need a refresher on how to use PPM Center, Astra Image and the other deconvolutin' image splittin' maximum entropyin' R L stuff. I'm open to suggestions, bird, Mike, DP, Robert_T, Dennis .........Anyone?????? How's that tutorial goin' DP?
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Old 13-04-2006, 07:18 AM
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Will Do Mike.

Once I give them a going through I'll pick out the best one and send it to you. I might have to go out and buy a DVD burner this morning. My last two nights efforts have shrunk my total HDD on Laptop and Desktop to a total of about 8 gig left between the two of them and I don't want to throw these babies out.
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Old 13-04-2006, 07:27 AM
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Well it's 02:30 and I gotta go to bed but I thought I'd leave you with a random sample of what I captured up tonight. This is an image from about half way through the stack. Straight of the Registax floor with only wavelets 3, 4, 5, & 6 done and using PS "Save for Web" where I up sized from 640 wide to 800 wide;

I'm happy with it

Thanks Paul its wonderful to look at!
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Old 13-04-2006, 08:30 AM
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I was out last night as well, but seeing started at 5/10 or less, and got worse. Terrible conditions, albeit totally clear with a bright moon.

I captured some avi's, but i'm not expecting much out of them. Such a shame, because it looked great through the eyepiece.

Darn jetstream robbed the gaseous one of all detail.
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