Mono DMK Jupiter - Aug 19, Brisbane

[matt]

Hi folks.

It's been a few weeks since the seeing in Brisbane looked reasonable enough to bother.

Sorry about these being in mono. I've just recently sold my Astronomik RGB filter set and am waiting for my new filters to arrive.

Lack of filters notwithstanding....I still thought it looked nice enough tonight to have a crack.

I've included a Mitchell 1.4x resample for the image scale devotees;) It's a little grainy, but shows Ganymede a little better.

I'm happy with the detail, particularly on Ganymede at lower left.

The shadow on Jupiter's surface is Ganymede's, while Io is at the upper right of the image.

These images captured with the C9.25 and 3x Televue barlow. DMK 21AF04, processed in R4.

Thanks for looking.

Oh...Mike. I also captured a few Toucam AVIs...just for you:P

[Rigel003]

Good detail on the planet and smooth processing, Matt. Some surface detail on Ganymede and a crisp shadow too. Well done.

[rat156]

Nice...

Now add the toucam data as colour, spectacular!

Cheers
Stuart

[matt]

Sorry Stu.

The ToUcam data was captured about 20 minutes earlier...so it wouldn't work.

Cheers.

[AlexN]

AHHHH i knew it was nice enough to image but i've been lazy and now its all misty outside :(

Well done Matt... Lots of fine detail

[rat156]

Yeah 20mins is pushing it a bit, that black spot might look a bit funny...

I take one color avi for every five or so mono ones. A flip mirror makes it a no brainer.

Cheers
Stuart

[rat156]

I've always wanted to have a go a resampling my images a bit, Mitchell is the way to go I see, might give it a burl.

Cheers
Stuart

[iceman]

Nice work Matt, some good detail there to be sure. I'm not so much a fan of the resampled one, the scale on the original is just fine to me.

I'm surprised how far Jupiter has moved past opposition looking at the shadow of Jupiter! Shows how long it's been since I've seen a shadow transit.

[Dennis]

Hi Matt

Hmm, you’ve squeezed a lot of that session! I was out until midnight and the seeing just didn’t look as if it could deliver the detail you’ve managed to record and bring out. Very nice work!

Cheers

Dennis

[Garyh]

Very nice Mono image Matt! A wealth of detail showing as well as on Ganymede too!
cheers

[StephenM]

Great image Matt! I was observing visually from about 9:30-10:30pm, watching the shadow transit and Io cross the limb of Jupiter. It looked great, and I was wondering if anyone was imaging it!

Cheers,
Stephen

[pelu]

Hi.

Try to superimpose in Photoshop a layer with the image color in mode
COLOUR. You can even blur a bit. Retain all the detail of
monochrome and add the colour of the Toucam

Greetings

[Lester]

Nice detail Matt.

Well done.

[spearo]

very nice
well done Matt
frank

[Matty P]

Impressive images Matt, lovely sharp detail and great image scale.

Very well done. :thumbsup:

[beren]

:thumbsup: Nicely done Matt, look forward to your work once you have your new filters and FWheel

[matt]

Thanks guys.

I have no idea what these guys are saying, but Jonathan Maron from the DMK Imaging blog put me on to this little discussion on a French website:

http://forums.futura-sciences.com/thread242082.html

Anyone speak Francais??:D

[pelu]

You just remove the desire to make a Jupiter animation to the French colleague :-D

[matt]

Is that good or bad????:lol:

[AlexN]

Matt.... 5000 posts... :eyepop: Not bad mate... Not bad...

[matt]

Cheers, Alex:)

[pelu]

Good for you and bad for him :rofl:

But wait you two o tree years that Jupiter is high when is viewed from Europe and then our revenge will arrive...:wink2:

[matt]

Revenge?

Revenge for what???!!!!!!!:rofl::rofl:

Just joking, Pelu. But that is a funny way to pay a compliment.

You just gotta love the French mentality!;)

Regardless, I appreciate their kind comments and wish them all the best, clear skies in 2-3 years. Merci beaucoup!