Seeing was very good this morning, I was still capturing data up until
10 minutes before sunrise. For the last few captures I was manually
guiding as my tracking software had shut down - the sky background was
too bright for it :-) Colour balancing was a bit more interesting than
usual as a result...
This image is the second-last one from the session, 15 minutes before
sunrise. The grs is well placed and some interesting things are going on
in the neb, particularly the large white and red spots. There's also a
prominent whitish zone close to the south pole (bottom), I'm not sure
I've seen it this wide before.
Thanks Mike, it's already had quite a bit of sharpening applied, wavelets + deconvolution + unsharp mask at 5 and 2 pixels, I wanted to stop before I went too far :-)
So much detail, the small red spot following the GRS looks interesting against the background of the faded SEB and the detail within the GRS is interesting. I perceive some blue within the GRS, I think if you were able to image the GRS at the CM in similar seeing then maybe the thin blue line that we saw last year might be visible.
Great shot. The appearance of the Great Red Spot here reminds me so much of its appearance in 1973..very intense red and easily visible an a 6" reflector As a 13 year old the view of this cemented my love of astronomy for life . I've waited a long time for it to become this prominent.
Hi Anthony, wonderful image and very interesting developments in the SEB. I think there are more details in there so I took the liberty of applying a bit of extra sharpening to your image - hope you don't mind
We astronomers 12,000 miles away are blown away but not surprised. We are not surprised because the jet stream situation for Canberra returned to perfection on April 19th. See for yourself if you haven't already.. http://squall.sfsu.edu/gif/jetstream_sohem_02.gif
Yeah very nice. Lovely colors and very sharp. 
