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John K

11-04-2007, 06:32 AM

Well although it was looking very typical to start off with, and I had almost given up by swinging for some low power imaging to the moon, the seeing improved and I quickly swung back to Jove to be rewarded with my best image so far this season.

What appears to be making the difference is that a chilled mirror to ambient using DP's experimental cooler delivers more frames of higher quality. Particularly important when re-sampling to increase image scale. So for this image, 500 frames in R,G,B have been used, which is around 40% of the total captured.

Hope others got out there this morning.

John.

iceman

11-04-2007, 06:35 AM

That's a stunning image, John! I reckon there's even more potential hidden away in that data.

I could see it was going to be nice this morning but I was so tired from work + imaging the night before I couldn't get out again. Now you've made me wish I had! :)

[1ponders]

11-04-2007, 08:53 AM

:eyepop:What a pearler John :clap:

bird

11-04-2007, 08:54 AM

Excellent!

Ric

11-04-2007, 09:01 AM

Very nice John, you have captured some great details and the GRS looks excellent.

great work

matt

11-04-2007, 09:37 AM

Excellent work, John!

Definitely one of your finest.

Really enjoying your images this apparition.

Keep 'em coming:)

Dennis

11-04-2007, 10:58 AM

Another beauty John – a great capture and excellent processing.

Cheers

Dennis

John K

11-04-2007, 12:47 PM

Thanks for all the comments guys. Can't believe we have another 2 years of Jove high in the sky like this. Great stuff!

Mike - Happy to e-mail you some R, G, B, files (sorry but they will be post wavelets)

Attached is a version with more colour saturation and contrast that brings out some of the finer details slightly.

iceman

11-04-2007, 01:08 PM

Sure John, would be happy to have a go.

Another great image.

davidpretorius

11-04-2007, 07:33 PM

you have floored me John, that is absolutely bloody fantastic!

well deserved!

DobDobDob

11-04-2007, 07:49 PM

Hope you don't get sick of everyone going ga-ga over your pics, and even though I'm only an observer, I still readily appreciate the majesty of your work. Top shot :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

bird

11-04-2007, 07:56 PM

another excellent image John!

Bird