Jupiter from last night

[iceman]

My first imaging run in 2 weeks!

I had to battle very hard though, the platform is now working, but it's slipping and so Jupiter would just shoot off the FOV at times when I least expected it. I had to struggle to find patches along its motion where it stayed put.

Captured 7 avi's, but the seenig progressively got worse, starting from around 5/10 and ending up at 3/10.

I had the fan running, ambient was around 11.3° and the mirror was within 0.8°.

As much as I tried through processing, I just can't get any more out of this image. The blue channel was overexposed as I had the light meter at around 230 but the transparency must've got better and it creeped up to 240 without me realising it.

Anyway it's good to be tired again, hopefully some better seeing will come my way soon..

Captured @ 5fps for 125 seconds.

[jjjnettie]

Nice shot.
Still plenty of detail concidering how lousy the seeing was.

[davidpretorius]

at least you got some data, it is still a worry that the wheel slips.

is the wheel a roller blade wheel that many guys make these platforms out of? if it is worn down, then maybe a new one in order?

I peeked at this same view thru the eyepiece before the clouds rocked in.

Nice to see the temps under control, excellent

[ving]

slipping wheel? doesnt sound too good :(

nice image tho mike :)

[Robert_T]

Hi Mike, still a pleasing image nonetheless. My last run was Sunday night and I had a similar trouble trying to coax something from the avis... haven't got round to finishing and posting either :P

[Lester]

Good one Mike, Plenty of detail there. Can't wait for excellent seeing conditions there is going to be some sepurb images posted.

[asimov]

Thats a good image considering the conditions mate. Well done. (insert thumbs up smilie)