Jupiter from Murrumbateman, June 22

[bird]

First light with the scope now that we have moved in to our new home at Murrumbateman... yay!

It was very cold last night, I was working in subzero temps for most of the night, it was tricky keeping the scope at ambient even with the cooler running flat out.

The seeing was spectacular - almost certainly the best yet for this year. Gotta love these clear winter nights :-)

Here's the very first image of the night, taken at 7.30pm local time - just before I came in for dinner. I have a lot more images, but it takes a while to process them...

Details:

13.1" f/5.5 newtonian @ f/41
Dragonfly Express mono camera
40fps all channels

Processing: the usual 5 or 6 steps - apologies if this seems over processed to some :-)

regards, Bird

[rumples riot]

Lovely image Anthony. Glad you are getting some nice seeing.

[matt]

Nice image, Anthony.

[bird]

...improved version - notice the extra orange areas adjacent to oval BA, they weren't there last time I looked :-)

Bird

[iceman]

What a ripper! Huge impact scale.. beautiful processing.

Congrats Anthony!

[joe_smith]

I agree that second one is very sharp and big - some new color changes going on as well. Well done Anthony :thumbsup:

[John K]

very nice Anthony, and glad someone is having good weather and seeing

[davidpretorius]

top stuff bird, sorry i stuffed up re double moon transit, it is tonight!!!

fairly overprocessed though mate, i reckon the "straight outa stacking - no wavelets" is good! - sometimes even not even capturing it on to the computer is good, just plug the camera into the focusser... :rofl:

[Dennis]

Hi Anthony

Another stunning image – well done! Thanks too, for enduring the cold too to bring us this Jovian visual feast.

Cheers

Dennis

[matt]

Fair dinkum:rolleyes:

[Astroman]

Nice one Anthony, beautiful work. Detail is incredible, definitely one of the best I have seen on here for a while. :thumbsup:

[Lester]

Excellent image Anthony.

Mr. Pretorious you are something else. (LOL)

[Rigel003]

Fantastic image, Bird. Really natural looking with a wealth of detail at such a large scale. Amazing.

[gbeal]

Lovely shot Bird, I am constantly in amazement with what you are turning out.

[Satchmo]

I think this is your bet image yet. The processing and color look very natural and much closer to the gentle pastel shades you see in the Hubble shots, and the image scale is awesome. I wondered if you had processed any images from your Cairns Jupiter photography mission?

[Kal]

That's fantastic! Can't wait to see some more from your captures from the night!

[sheeny]

Beautiful Bird!

Al.

[bird]

Mark, after Damian decided not to come out this year we changed venues, and went to the Grampions in Victoria instead of cairns, it's somewhat closer :-)

The camp was great, and both Paul and DaveP got good images there. I got some good data as well, but we had a lot of rain, more than half the nights were clouded out :-(

Better luck next year...

Bird

[Exfso]

I must admit, I would love to see your images in the seeing that Damien gets. Your images are really quite outstanding Anthony, and between yourself and those that are in your league, it all has to go very well for the Australasian planetary imaging scene. Young, and I repeat, young, Damien should keep an eye out for the Aussie attack....All this aside it is great to see, amateurs getting such amazing images of the planets.

[ving]

top shelf as per usual Ant! ;)_