first Jupiter for 2008

[bird]

Jupiter is just high enough to clear the walls around my scope, and although the seeing was very poor there were a couple of opportunities to get something recognisable before the pre-dawn thermal effects killed it off.

60 seconds in each or R,G,B
captured with Coriander for Linux, camera was a PGR Dragonfly2

regards, Bird

edit: original image was reversed horizontally, fixed now

[davidpretorius]

it is a starter :D, still vey nice

was this 5:10am this morning?

[iceman]

Very well done, lots of detail visible and the best iamge of Red Jr i've seen this season. It really has shrunk!

[Lester]

Very nice Bird.

[peter_4059]

Plenty of detail in there - well done.

[bird]

Mike, I think you got red Jr in your image from a couple of days ago, didn't you?

ps my image was reversed laterally, fixed now. The GRS was just coming into view when I took this.

cheers, Bird

[iceman]

ah well that changes things :) It's not Red Jr after all.

Yes I captured it the other day - it really had appeared to be much smaller and less intense than last year.

[davidpretorius]

phew, i thought i was going mad.........i measured GRS transitting around 6:30 and was wondering how you had imaged at around 8.30am?

:D

[bird]

:-) You can thank Registax for saving .fits images upside down. I'd forgotten about that, I always have to remember to flip images before I post them...

cheers, Bird