(yet another) Jupiter, July 25

[bird]

Making the most of the weather while it lasts...

This is from last night, more excellent seeing. This is not the finished image, this is an intermediate that I use to go back and refine the raw data before I make the final image, but I wanted to post it anyway, the end result will be noticeably better :-)

edit: replaced this image with the final one.

regards, Bird

[h0ughy]

Fantastic!! The shadow is very prominent, where is the moon in relation?

[[1ponders]]

Stunning bird, and that's just the intermediate image :eyepop:

I, for one, would love to know some of your processing tips. What do you mean by using it to refine your raw data?

[erick]

Io, I think Dave - something like this?

[bird]

Yeah, the moon had finished transit about 30 minutes earlier and is off to the lower left (outside the scope of the image).

Here's the refined version, made by the "morhping" option to ninox, this is where you provide a reference image and ninox morphs (distorts) all the raw frames so that the major features all line up with the reference image. The end result is a sequence where all the primary features are in exactly the same place.

One day soon I'll write up a page about it, but it's described on the ninox page (http://www.acquerra.com.au/astro/software/ninox).

So anyway, here's the resulting image, not that all these images are resampled to 150% of original size.

This image is larger than previous images because I added more extension onto my 5x powermate last night, getting to about 14.3m focal length. Jupiter almost filled the height of the ccd :-)

regards, Bird

[[1ponders]]

Wow!!!



bird can you check that link. I get "The page cannot be found"

[ving]

nice one birdy! :)

[Rob_K]

Paul, the last bracket in the link has been hyperlinked - you'll have to cut-&-paste.

And amazing stuff Bird!!!

Cheers -

[iceman]

Holy cow! That last one is a bloody ripper!

Just brilliant, Anthony.

[[1ponders]]

still doesn't work for me using
http://www.acquerra.com.au/astro/software/ninox)
or
http://www.acquerra.com.au/astro/software/ninox

[iceman]

btw I get a 404 as well at http://www.acquerra.com.au/astro/software/ninox

but

http://www.acquerra.com.au/astro/software/ppmcentre/

works, but the morphing is not described on that page.

[[1ponders]]

:thumbsup:

[bird]

aah, ok - I'll fix that shortly, looks like an old copy of that page has been put back in one of my updates a while back and is missing some extra stuff.

Bird

[bird]

Ok, it's fixed now.

The morphing stuff has been there for about 18 months, originally written for processing lunar images, but if you have good quality planetary data then it seems to work ok on it as well.

regards, Bird

[bird]

ps weather forecast for Saturday night looks very good, and again on Monday night.

If you don't mind the cold, we have space for visitors, byo scope :-)

Bird

[iceman]

Yeh I saw the High looking good for Saturday!

[IanL]

Gees Oh, That is one of the best earth images of Juipter i have seen.
Bird what was the seeing like and what telescope was used to take the image. WELL DONE!

[rumples riot]

Wow, that last image is spectacular. Well done mate. Considering driving over for the weekend. Will let you know if I am coming.

[acropolite]

Amazing detail and image scale Bird.:thumbsup:

[bird]

Ian, scope details:

http://www.acquerra.com.au/astro/lexx.html

seeing: very very good. shifting between 9/10 and 10/10 for a while.

regards, Bird

[LT_Ng]

Hi Bird,

Were you hijacking Hubble telescpe now?

Your recent Jupiter images are absolutely very excellent. Please don't set the bar so high that we cannot catch up with you.

Thanks for giving me a peek at Juipter with your 13.1" scope. The mirror and the design of your OTA are excellent.

Congratulations.

Clear skies,

LT

[Dietmar]

WHOW!!!
this is breathtaking Anthony!
have you stuck a 200 km vacuum-pipe over your scope???

a w e s o m e ! i think one of the very best images of jupiter ever taken from earths`surface.

[astronut]

Bird,
I've seen plenty of Jup pictures over the years (Observatories included) and this is the best I've ever seen, keep it up. Aussie, Aussie, Aussie oi, oi, oi!!!!:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[DavidU]

:eyepop: WOW ! has Bird got his Newt mounted on the ISS???
I can only dream of doing imaging like this !
Dave (melbourne)

[strongmanmike]

Yes, a fabulous image that Anthony! Looks like a Voyager image as it was approaching Jupiter in 1979 :eyepop:

Mike

[janoskiss]

Cool! I like that photo of your scope, Bird... :whistle: ;)

Awesome Joop too btw! Just wondering why the chromatic aberration looking artefact around the shadow? Perhaps because the moon shadow is moving much faster than the planet's surface??

[bird]

yeah, Io moves so fast that the shadow is hard to track...

Bird

[gregbradley]

That is one of the very best images I have ever seen of Jupiter.

Well done. A masterpiece.

Greg.:)

[akritc]

sweet as image