What a difference a day makes. Nov 17th was clear but the seeing was unusally bad for my area but Nov 18th was a real pearler.
Imaged Jupiter last night in very good seeing. I just knew it would be a good night, earlier in the day I was at my Lawn Bowls Club and the sky was just such a very deep blue. A jet passed overhead at about 30,000ft and the con trail just stayed there for about half an hour without distorting at all.
Have attached 4 RGB & 4 807nm IR images the seeing for the first 3 data sets ( just under 2 hrs) was brilliant and I would estimate it at about 8 to 8.5/10. My final capture, which was at a lower alt over the roof of my neighbors house was not quite as good. I think more the result of heat coming off of the building than a general drop off in the intrinsic seeing level.
They are pearlers alright, Trevor. The weather up here has pretty well crashed for a while. Thanks for sharing.
Tony
Thanks Tony, reckon when those periods of crook weather come in its time to drag out all of the old data and start doing repro's.
Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
They're fantastic Trevor, well done! Beautiful colours and processing.
It's a shame you didn't get the SEB outbreak.
Well done!
Thanks very much Mike, the SEB outbreak is available for me tonight, hope its not expecting to much for the seeing from last night to pop up again tonight.
A good night and love the 3rd RGB with the 2 red spots and the 3rd IR is wonderful in fact all the IR's show so much detail especially around the poles. Have you ever been tempted to use the IR instead of the red channel, I suppose red is always more detailed and smoother? I hate those stubborn con trails that move longways or not at all!
Nice mate. I took a look early on and thought the seeing was not that good visually, then the cloud marched in. Hoping for these conditions tonight and tomorrow night.
Goes to show how 700km can make a huge difference.
A good night and love the 3rd RGB with the 2 red spots and the 3rd IR is wonderful in fact all the IR's show so much detail especially around the poles. Have you ever been tempted to use the IR instead of the red channel, I suppose red is always more detailed and smoother? I hate those stubborn con trails that move longways or not at all!
John.
Thanks very much John, there are 3 red spots in these images, oval BA, the GRS and the LRS in the NNTrZ. Yep, love the IR images but I would never use IR with R or substitute IR for R with Jupiter. My images are used for scientific evaluation and the RGB is a true representaion of the planet, with a synthetic G or R the image might look esthetically better but it is not a true representaion of the planet. There is a program that is used by the professionals that can create false colour from a FIT file but that is mainly used with deep sky images to highlight particular regions within the image. Love seeing contrails that just stay there, means I am in for a bonza night of imaging.
Quote:
Originally Posted by mswhin63
Fantastic detail Trevor, great to see.
Thanks very much Malcolm.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul Haese
Nice mate. I took a look early on and thought the seeing was not that good visually, then the cloud marched in. Hoping for these conditions tonight and tomorrow night.
Goes to show how 700km can make a huge difference.
Thanks very much Paul, I think our geopraphic locations make for considerable differences on a day to day basis, the previous night you made an excellent image but up here the seeing was hopeless. I hope you get good conditions over the weekend and look forward to seeing what you do with it.
Quote:
Originally Posted by michaellxv
Fabulous stuff Trevor. Hope you get some more conditions like that.
Thanks very much Michaell, so do I.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Matt Wastell
Stunning! Fantastic work - your best stuff I reckon!
Thanks very much Matt, yep, the excitment levels in my observatory were exceedingly high this night.
Quote:
Originally Posted by multiweb
As said previously terrific stuff Trevor. Some of your best fo sure.
As said previously terrific stuff Trevor. Some of your best fo sure. 
