Jupiter + Ganymede, Europa and Io

[iceman]

Hi all

Here's one more processed sample from the 23 avi's taken in superb seeing last Friday. It's the last of the 23 avi's. Transparency was dropping very fast, as my mirror was covered in dew (the scope was pointing straight up!).

I captured 1 minute of Luminance (no filter) at 30fps, and 20 seconds each of R,G,B channels at 15fps. I stacked 850 frames for the luminance, and 290 frames for each colour channel.

I recombined the colour channels in AstraImage, and used Photoshop to do the layering, plus adjustment of saturation, colour balance, curves and levels.

I'm really happy with this image, with good detail on Io and Ganymede and Europa's nice and bright as it's about to egress.

There's a lot of detail around WSZ on the NEBn too. It's a shame I couldn't keep imaging until the GRS transitted but the scope wanted to do a meridian flip any minute now and I didn't have time to set it all up again.

I've finished running all 23 sets of avi's through registax, now it's a matter of combining them all.. animation coming today or tomorrow I suspect.

Thanks for looking!

[iceman]

Here's the result of avi 21, it's even better than the one above!

Io is just peeking out from behind Jupiter. The colour of Io is off because it moves so fast and it was barely visible in the red channel and had come out quite a way in the blue channel.

[sheeny]

Nice detail there Mike!

Al.

[Dennis]

Just superb Mike, quite a breathtaking composition. An awesome image of Jupiter, its systems and Galilean moons. The image looks very natural and pleasing too, not over processed.

Cheers

Dennis

[spearo]

Mike,
this is just awsome
crisp and clear, just amazing to me
inspirational
frank

[DobDobDob]

It's really hard to find the most appropriate words to describe your image, saying great, awesome, fantastic and so forth just doesn't seem to cut it. However seeing words are all I have, I would just like to say that the image is simply superb, in fact given the equipment and budget, I dare say most non-astronomy general public people would say it obviously came from NASA or Hubble :P

[janoskiss]

Mike, you are getting so good at this that it's beginning to scare me.

[bird]

Nice work again Mike.

Bird

[RB]

Michael, Michael, Michael............:rolleyes:

What are we going to do with you ???
Leave some photons for the rest of us, fella !!

:lol:

Great work mate. :thumbsup:

[davidpretorius]

bloody awesome!!! i reckon you could get away with a nude strut at work...it is honestly that good!!!!

[h0ughy]

Dave, that might not be a good idea:whistle:

[ving]

cheryl said: "woohoo!"

[davidpretorius]

did she like the jupiter and moon images as well????

[ving]

oh dave, what are we gunna do with you? :P