Jupiter, January 11 + Red Jr

[bird]

The seeing this morning was truly awful, maybe 1 or 2/10. A fire was burning about 10km away at lake george, and I was looking right over it.

Last night was amazingly hot - at sunset the temp was 35C, and at midnight it was still 28C. The minimum for the night was 21C at about 5am.

And it was followed today by our 2nd hottest day ever - 40.5C. Yowzers!

Anyhow, here's an image of Jupiter from this morning at about 5:11am local time. Features to note are the transit of Io, and Oval BA (AKA Red Jr).

Scope details: www.acquerra.com.au/astro/equipment/131-powermate.html

Image capture: 60 seconds each channel @ 35fps.

cheers, Bird

[matt]

The hat is well and truly off to you, Anthony.

Great stuff.

I can't believe you got any detail in this morning's conditions.

Imagine what you're going to capture when it's almost overhead in a pitch black sky:eyepop:

[h0ughy]

well its a start, I can't promise perfect conditions at lostock but hopefully the evenings will be a bit cooler and steady! BTW the detail you have kicked off with - not bad. I am looking forward to this seasons efforts from you and mike et al!

[davidpretorius]

well done bird, first view of red jnr i have seen, congrats mate!

i had a feeling he was around this side this morning.

I was imaging at the exact time you were with those disgusting results. there was not way any frame even had a shadow let alone red jnr.

Tonight looks ok down this way and I hope to catch io coming around the other side, GRS may be ok tonight fingers crossed depending on if it is still aprox 1 hour out of whack with starry night. Just did some line ups and collimation with a perfectly cooled mirror....gee it makes a huge difference.

[Meade bloke]

Very nice capture, understand your smoke problems , no point even looking here the burnt smell tells you no go .

Cheers Spud

[bird]

Davo, try this page for GRS calculations, let me know if it's any better than the Starry Night estimate:

www.acquerra.com.au/astro/software/jupiter.html

It's a mangled version of the page from another astronomy site, with updated algorithm and more recent GRS longitude.

Bird

[davidpretorius]

thanks bird great link

[iceman]

Great image Anthony, first shadow+transit of the season!

[ving]

great stuff birdy :)
:thumbsup:

I havent seen as many saturn shots as i thought i would tho :(

[jjjnettie]

NIce one Mr Bird.

[Ric]

Hi Bird, thats a great image especially with the spot and the transit as well.
I think you have done a great job with the conditions you had to work with.
I certainly was a warm night.

Cheers