Todays Jupiter graze of the moon late this afternoon

[5ash]

Took this picture with a homemade focal reducer using the lx90 and LPI. All pics stacked with autostarsuite on capture at 70% quality. First pic shows moons limb with jupiter, second pic just jupiter without the focal reducer . Note you can see two satellites and the great red spot in broad daylight!
Philip :D

[CometGuy]

Here is the moon at 4:07pm from Brisbane:

http://www.pbase.com/update_image/44876746

Beautiful in 15x70 binoculars due to transparent sky :)

Terry

[CometGuy]

Sorry wrong link:

http://www.pbase.com/image/44876746

Terry

[ving]

well caught. I looked up and saw it at about 5pm but by then they were seperating.
:)

[[1ponders]]

Good one guys. I'll post mine as soon as I learn how to make an animated gif. It was a complete occulation here as well and I managed to get about 20 short avies.

[tornado33]

Hi all
heres my effort, 6 inch F3.6 Cometracker Schmidt Newtonian, 2x converter, EOS 300d, 2 x 1/100sec. ISO 100 shots extracted from RAW files and processed in Photoshop.
http://scottalder.fotopic.net/p16363386.html
taken from Wallsend, Newcastle at 5:31 pm AEST
Scott

[Dennis]

Hi

Wow - what a fantastic collection of daylight Jupiter/Moon images. It would have been unthinkable to attempt these a few years ago. It's incredible how technology has changed our hobby, and opened up so many different opportunities.

I mostly watched at the eyepiece of my Vixen 4" refractor and plugged my LPI in for a short period, with a TeleVue x2.5 Powermate, when I captured Jupiter just "touching" the Moon.

Well done everyone!

Cheers

Dennis

[toetoe]

Fantastic shots from you all.

[h0ughy]

great shots fellas, here is my effort, my poor little pentax *istDS, 50-500 with 2 times teleconverter, circular polar finter and a little bit of photoshop taken newcastle King Edward Park

sorry slipped the sun in there too!! :D

[iceman]

Excellent pics everyone, Dennis yours is amazing!

[seeker372011]

way cool folks

narayan

[[1ponders]]

My first animated gif :D I've done it in greyscale to keep image size down. Total time about 8 min. Individual shots of 15 sec duration.

Capture Equipment
Celestron 102EQ refractor
Phillips ToUcam 380x240 res

[slice of heaven]

Excellent stuff Paul.

[h0ughy]

great shots Paul!! :2thumbs: :2thumbs: :2thumbs:

[[1ponders]]

Unfortunately I missed most of the exit. I was looking in the wrong spot :P plus had a few mount issues but managed to get 4 shots to put together

[iceman]

Way cool Paul, top stuff!

[[1ponders]]

I learnt a lot from it. The biggest thing I learnt was to make sure your setting up 2 hours before the event to make sure everything is spot on and equipment is functioning fully. Not 3/4 of an hour and be rushed. BIG lesson to learn :D

[h0ughy]

Nice thought Paul but very hard to achieve sometimes :D

[gbeal]

Well we both learnt from this then Paul, as I had the same headaches, which I won't go into. Your shots, as with all the others, are superb. Well done.
When is the next one??
Gary

[trufflehunter]

I didn't know about it until too late :(
Great shots, guys! Was it a complete occultation in Newcastle, Houghy?

[h0ughy]

No missed it my miles! :D would have looked great if it did I left work early to get the beginning and it was worth it. The Circular polar filter I have on the sigma lens was worht it as i filtered out the extra light to reveal Jupiter and a reasonable shot of the detail on the moon. The seeing wasn't all that great even though it was generally clear, it was very turbulent.

[ErwinvdVelden]

Hi everyone,

Looking at all those fantastic images you had all a ball of a time.

Dennis of course had to pick the most dramatic moment when Jupiter was just touching a lunar mountain on the rim, I wouldn't expect anything less :D

I'm in the middle of a removal and my telescope was packed up that day, but I still managed to make a snapshot.

Looks familiar, Dennis? :rofl:

In case you all wonder, I plucked a C9.25 from the shop (No, not an XLT with carbon fiber tube :ashamed: ) and plugged a Neximager in primary focus.

When I'm settled at my new place I'll process the other 7480 frames.....

A boxed cheers,

[h0ughy]

great stuff erwin :2thumbs:

[Dennis]

Hey Erwin

Wow – what a great image! At the prime focus of a C9.25 – hmm, must get myself one of these. We seem to have synchronised our image capture times! Your image shows Jupiter in the same position as my effort. I may have to look at the Neximager, as I stood on my LPI yestrday and broke it - ouch!

Maybe Mike from Bintel will sell the LPI at a special Qld Astrofest discount?

Cheers

Dennis

[Gordon]

A magnificent animation Paul. Congratulations.
My attempt wit the C-8 was not nearly so good but enough to at least make a record of the event.

[h0ughy]

Dennis PM me if you would like a vertually brand new LPI used twice, I don't like it. make me an offer. original box, extra long cable and software! I will be there in August, unless you would like it before then?

[atalas]

Yeah great shots guys !keep up the good work .


Louie :2thumbs:

[ErwinvdVelden]

Hi Dennis,

Sorry to hear about your LPI, I'll take the Neximager to Astrofest, if you want you can test it.

Cheers,

[von Tom]

Late to this thread :D Some fabulous shots and animations here (wow Dennis! :) )

I rushed home from work to get to see it, and used a Canon 300D (lens removed) handheld at prime focus of an Optex 6 inch Newtonian. 4:16pm 16th June 2005, Brisbane.

Tom