Pic du Midi rules again

[strongmanmike]

Awesome APOD today (https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170617.html) :eyepop: :thumbsup:

Mike

[gregbradley]

Wow that is truly amazing. How far planetary imagers have come.

Greg.

[strongmanmike]

Seems to me to be completely free of processing artefacts and processing induced features often seen in other mere mortals ground based images. Always wanted to go to Pic du Midi, it has always been at the fore front of the best planetary images taken from Earth, even in the film days!

Mike

[Atmos]

So all I need is a mountain with excellent seeing and a 1m F/17 telescope :lol:

It is fantastic, the resolution is breath taking.

[Saturnine]

Was just looking at APOD before coming here and was wondering, is that the best image of Saturn taken from the surface of planet earth, it is absolutely stunning in detail.

[multiweb]

Another bunch of animations and pretty cool photos (http://www.europlanet-eu.org/pic-net-ground-based-images-press-release/?utm_content=buffer7ba50&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer) from the pic du midi.

[Wavytone]

Thanks for that !

You've just defined the target for the Mak Attack tomorrow night.

I was going to use the moons of Jupiter...

[Saturnine]

They are simply gorgeous images, would love to know how many gigabytes of data was obtained to produce each image, probably more than my old laptop could handle.
Every year when the Tour de France bike race passes through the Pyrenees they always include some helicopter scenic veiws of Pic du Midi Observatory and it is stunning mountain terrain.