Jupiter this morning March 10, 2007 and one of my best ever

[John K]

Well conditions were nearly perfect this morning at 8/10 here in Melbourne and with the mirror having cooled down to 1 degree above ambient I have captured one of my best ever images of Jupiter.

This is one of 5 AVI's that I have processed using my standard routine and I have not yet looked at the other AVI's nor devoted time to better processing. Back to bed to get some sleep now!

Hope others had a go at Jove this morning.

Enjoy.

John.


p.s. also took some images of the moon and first ever of Mercury so they're coming!

[matt]

Great stuff, John.

Was clouded out here. No doubt something to do with the new DMK having arrived:lol:

[iceman]

Wow that's spectacular!

Great stuff John, very well done. What a difference 786km makes. I was up this morning was well and seeing was worse than 3/10 :(

Incredible image, can't wait to see more.

[Astroman]

very nice John

[beren]

:thumbsup: great stuff, detail and scale well done ......good luck with the other AVIs :) I have a whole heap as well from this morning to go through :thumbsup:

[Rigel003]

Fantastic detai, John, and an enormous image scale. Well done. Looks like you did get that Adelaide seeing from the previous night.

[RB]

Fantastic work John.
Great detail and image scale.

:thumbsup:

[Dennis]

Lovely image John, just lovely.

Cheers

Dennis

[sheeny]

Excellent Joop! Love that detail!

Al.

[DobDobDob]

Great shot John, almost as good as being there :P

[John K]

Thanks again for the comments guys.

Have reworked one of the AVI's as attached. Slightly softer example.

[alan meehan]

very good shot john ,every time i see jupiter there is always something different,the detail is fantastic well done.

[DobDobDob]

Okay here is a question that your image has inspired me to ask, I should research it elsewhere but seeing it's come to mind just now, here goes.

The planet as shown, has predominately two main colours i.e. shades of white and shades of rust red (brown). Is it fair to say that the planet (as observed here) is white with large red bands or red with narrow white bands?

Are the colours displayed here purely artificial as produced by the software and display on the viewing device (computer screen), or are these colours true as occurs in reality?

I hope these questions make sense, I know what I mean but might not have asked very clearly :whistle:

[John K]

That's a very good question and different people will propably answer it slightly differently but in my case I try and match the colour to how I see the planet visually and/or how I have seen the planet as captured by spacecraft/largeer telescopes. Others actually do a colour match with a standard image (e.g. hubble or a spacecraft photo) or even let Photoshop decide for you.

As a comparison compare my image with this link of a photo taken by the Cassini probe
http://www.solarviews.com/browse/pia/PIA04866.jpg

[DobDobDob]

Yes side by side they are very similar, and you got yours at a fraction of the price ;) could you call the colour something like cafe mocha creamy swirl? The detail in the Cassini probe is stunning, the probe must have gone very close to able to actually image that, I would imagine.

[netwolf]

John thats amazing work, you have produced some amazing images this last week.