Jupiter, 6th May

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #1 07-05-2009, 12:06 PM

Conditions on Jupiter were the best so far this season, maybe 7/10 on average during this capture. Io and its shadow are well positioned here, and with sufficient averted imagination a dark spot can be seen near the south pole (top) on Io.

Oval BA is very faint, but there is another small storm adjacent to it at the same latitude that's even more visible, and a reddish spot between them. This might need closer wathcing to see what's going on here..

*Note both Io and its shadow have had their RGB layers realigned to compensate for its proper motion while the data was captured.

Edit: replaced original image with one that had an extra align/stack pass on Io and shows more detail.

regards, Anthony

batema (Mark) · #2 07-05-2009, 04:27 PM

Anthony,

Fantastic image. What scope are you shooting through to achieve this and is there any magnification such as a powermate involved.

Mark

iceman (Mike) · #3 07-05-2009, 04:30 PM

Just a beautiful image, Anthony. Great to see things coming together now.

Can clearly see in your image that Oval BA still has a orange ring with white centre, and the small spot to the East of it appears to have an orange ring around it too?

Lovely!

Paul Haese · #4 07-05-2009, 06:33 PM

Nice going mate, great detail and you got a nice Io too. Clouded here, so all I can do is just look on an admire.

Quark (Trevor) · #5 07-05-2009, 07:10 PM

Top stuff Bird,
Io looks almost 3D, lots of very intricate structure.

Well done as usual.
Regards
Trevor

spacezebra (Petra) · #6 07-05-2009, 07:16 PM

Stunning images Anthony.

Cheers Petra d.

Inmykombi (Geoff) · #7 07-05-2009, 08:22 PM

Image size is huge.
Very nice detail.
I never tire of looking at Jupiter and the stunning images that are posted on IIS.

Well done Bird.
Geoffro.

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #8 07-05-2009, 08:54 PM

Wow, incredible detail Anthony.
Thanks very much for posting.

DavidU (Dave) · #9 07-05-2009, 09:17 PM

Excellent shot !

Moonman (Michael) · #10 08-05-2009, 08:28 PM

Thats a great Shot Bird.

Hopefully a good indication of a great season of Jupiter this year. Lot's of early mornings for now for you planetary guys.

cheers

peter_4059 (Peter) · #11 08-05-2009, 08:38 PM

That's an amazing image Anthony - really nicely done. The IO and shaddow are very impressive.

I'm sure this is covered somewhere in the archive but can you explain the meaning of CMI/CMII etc?

Peter

Kevnool (Kev) · #12 08-05-2009, 08:59 PM

Excellent detail in that image, sure is a beauty.....cheers Kev.

Lester · #13 08-05-2009, 09:01 PM

Fantastic detail Anthony.

Hope you get more good ones soon.

Jen · #14 08-05-2009, 11:28 PM

:thum bsup: Beautiful pic Anthony :thum bsup:

Chippy (Nick) · #15 09-05-2009, 04:25 AM

There's no doubt that one's a beaut. Well done!!!