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!
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!
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
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?
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;
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.
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!
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.
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?
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.
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;
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