Images from this morning (14th April)

[bird]

Here's the first image I've processed from this mornings magical seeing at Murrumbateman. It's taken me all day cause I was trying to get rid of some nasty artifacts that were showing up on the bright limb, but in the end I gave up, they seem to be in the raw data and nothing I could do would remove them... in any case it's hard to see in the final image so I needn't have worried (look close at the bright limb and you an still see the problem).

This image was taken at 5.43am, well into morning twilight, just before high cloud ended the session. This was the last image taken, and I've processed it first because it's kinda interesting.

I'll have more and better images to follow - the seeing an hour earlier was spectacular, easily the best I've ever seen :eyepop:

regards, Bird

[matt]

That is terrific, Anthony.

I can't believe how crisp and easy to see Io is against the planet's disc.

The shadow is also very nice.

If you've got better stuff than this from this morning, bring it on!

I'm heartbroken that I had cloud at the same time as you had seeing like this.

Ah well... there'll be other nights.

[Dennis]

Yawn - not yet another superb, world class, gob smacking image.:thumbsup:

Gee, you are getting tedious with this constant stream of amazing images - give us a bad one every now and then - I've run out of superlatives and also have a sore bottom from falling off my fit ball too many times whenever I open a Jupiter post from you! ;)

Cheers

Dennis

[davidpretorius]

my god..................bird has used an emoticon......mods, please check to see if this is allowed.

love the polar detail on io, reminds me of one of mr peachs'

the super run continues...................

by the way, we have just had dinner with your wife..the two Lisa's got on like a house on fire and my two girls just wanted Leisa's attention all night........apparently you were coming for a visit tooo.........but got sidetracked by the seeing for two weeks!

leisa wants to know if you want any food bought back from tassie......hopefully you are getting enough sleep and food to eat.......the integration back into society company are on standby as soon as the seeing goes below 8/10 :rofl:

[[1ponders]]

Jeez Louise. Fare go bird, leave some photons for us mortals, you must have sucked them all in by now. :lol:

What a stunner bird, seriously words fail. :clap:

[bird]

So *that's* why it was so quiet round the house today...

ok, Leisa was amused...

[bird]

We wants all the pretty photonsss, they are preciousss to us...

[[1ponders]]

:lol:

[matt]

Oh Lord!!!!

It's Birdy Gollum:rofl:

[[1ponders]]

This image immediately came to minds

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=9105&d=1138752485

:rofl:

[John K]

Another excellent image Anthony, extremely detailed and nice and smooth.

[Ingo]

Excellent Image, nice and big and sharp.

I wonder why I only see the shadow of Io. :shrug:

[bird]

Io is there, it's just hiding :-) Consider it a challenge...

Bird

[bird]

Here's one more, from earlier in better seeing...

Image capture: 50 seconds each channel in R,G,B
Scope: http://www.acquerra.com.au/astro/lexx.html

regards, Bird

[matt]

Good work, Bird:thumbsup:

[Dennis]

Wow - that is so Hubble-like! Awesome.

Cheers

Dennis

[bird]

I've reworked that last one a bit, I think this is a bit better. I can't delete the one above cause I've sent out links to it in email, hope nobody minds me re-posting it.

Curious to know whether other people like the revised one too?

cheers, Bird

[davidpretorius]

i get an "invalid link with the last one" ??????????

[bird]

probly cause I just replaced it - is it there now?

[Ric]

Fantastic images Bird.
The quality is amazing.

Cheers

[davidpretorius]

# 2 just.

bit more gamma?

[bird]

no, took out some contrast which was over-exposing the image a bit around the GRS, and reversed the order of my unsharp mask & smoothing steps.

[Ingo]

Planetary objects playing peek-a-boo with me is not fun :lol:

[bird]

One more...

Bird

[davidpretorius]

i really like this one!

[iceman]

Amazing images Anthony, very well done. I prefer the 2nd GRS one, but I think I like the first image best of all. Although the later ones are perhaps a tad smoother.

Well done on a continuing trend of :eyepop: images from you.

[Ingo]

I see Io now!

Well done.

[bird]

...another one...

[davidpretorius]

yup, very very nice!

[iceman]

You must be sick of seeing bitmap files!

[bird]

yup.

processing about 2000 files for each channel... and resampling them up by 2x just makes things so much slower...

We have a server at work that I want to bring home :-) It can write to disk at > 100Mb/second. That would cut my processing time by 2/3, but sadly it's in a server room 1000km away...

each of these images is being processed a little differently as I try and find the right magic set of options, and I keep extending the command set of ninox a little each time to add new things, so it's not all bad...

Bird

[Ingo]

Get some 15k Raptors :thumbsup:

[bird]

Ingo, that's the sort of drives I will get as soon as we are in our new house and I can set up a server near the scope...

Bird

[bird]

Best image so far... also the most processing effort went into this one but I think it paid off. It's taken almost a full day to process it :-)

This was resampled 5/2 in ninox (ie 2.5), and about 1800 frames stacked in each channel.

regards, Bird

[davidpretorius]

bird, the fine blue wisps snaking their way across the planet are amazing!

[Dennis]

The details, colouration and contours between the various Jovian systems are just stunning – an awesome image Anthony, simply awesome. Well worth the hard day’s slog invested!

Cheers

Dennis

[iceman]

Excellent final image Anthony.. I love the detail around the GRS and in the NPR. Very well done.

[Satchmo]

:eyepop: :thumbsup: