Jupiter and Ganymede 1 April 1300 UT

[rumples riot]

450/ 878 frames
f20
seeing 3/10
gain 50%
gamma 0
saturation 100%
brightness 50%
1/33
10fps

Seeing was pretty lousy last night when I captured this, still hand sorting last avi, on screen the image looked very good, but seeing killed the final image. Anyway this is the best GRS I have ever capture. Have started to do softer wavelet processing, think that this give a much better image, and I have noted that all the top planetary imagers do the same thing.

Anyway, looking forward to some cooler nights to image the Jovian king.

[Mick]

Beautiful image Paul, late night hey.

[rumples riot]

Nah this was imaged at 1030-1100 pm last night, I put the UT time for people who like it. Just wish I could get some clear weather with good seeing like I did two weeks ago before opposition is over. Opposition occurs 4 April and will last nearly a week then it will slowly get smaller. And; on top of that Jupiter will be behind my neighbours tree in a month.

Anyway thanks for the compliment. Might post a better image once I have finished with the processing.

[rumples riot]

Here's a better version with hand selected frames from about 20 minutes later. You can see some fine detail in the GRS. A swirling of the cloud formation. Better seeing would help.

[Mick]

Yes 11pm thats late for me. :) Clouds here at the moment I hope they clear later so I can get a look at jupiter.

[iceman]

Nice one Paul, the 2nd one is one of your best jupiters for sure! Nice and large too, so close to opposition.