Jupiter 2nd Feb 2007

[davidpretorius]

Hi Guys,

Jumped out of bed at 5.30am, thinking I had missed an imaging session. Lucky everything lined up and within 5mins of getting outside, the dob driver was tracking nicely.

Took three vids, 1 in optimized colour and two in raw. The raw were actually after 6am local time.

Very quiet on this side, and I have seemed to have missed any of the STrD disturbances.

Well, just like last year, i was out of the blocks, mike had cloud, and we were then hit by Rob and Dennis awesome images......then it was Mikes turn.......Will History repeat itself???

:screwy:

[iceman]

Beautiful Dave, you're only days away from a ripper i'm sure.

[matt]

That's a goodun Dave.

You can see the progressive improvement in the images with each little increase in latitude.

Would be an interesting exercise to do a build-up mosaic and have them all lined up in one image showing how it improved from early in the season to opposition.

[davidpretorius]

thanks mike,

well this will be the last jupiter season with the current setup, so i am keen to see what can be squeezed out of a 10", actively cooled, tracking scope with a toucam.

Then, i look at APERTURE, camera, computer controlled focussing, computer controlled collimation etc etc

[davidpretorius]

spot on

rob T did the mars one a while back. I am keen for a progressive show. be the images good or bad, it would be an interesting exercise

[davidpretorius]

oops,

forgot to update the CM's

CMI=258.1 CMII=285.9 CMIII=138

according to http://www.acquerra.com.au/astro/software/jupiter.html

thanks bird

[bird]

Improving DP, for sure.

I'll be watching your images closely this season, expecting good things :-)

cheers, Bird

[davidpretorius]

hee hee, just wait til i build a 16" er and then you blast me away with a 50" galaxy killer!

[RB]

Nice one Davo, I like the colours too.
It's getting better and better mate.

:thumbsup:

[Ric]

Great image David, i love the colours and banding.

Cheers