Jupiter and Ganymede in great seeing, my best this year!

[iceman]

Seeing was great this morning, 12th May local time, the best I’ve had all year. Ganymede was approaching Jupiter, soon to begin transit.

Here’s one of the 11 images I captured from this morning - the first one to be fully processed and one of the best from the session. The others are still at various stages of processing - more to come in the next day or so - plus an animation of course!

There is an NEB outbreak setting on the bottom left, as well as a large rift on the NEB rotating into view on the right. Ganymede has a number of albedo markings too, including a bright spot on the southern tip.

After the shocking run of seeing I’ve had this year so far, finally the good seeing is starting to come. I can’t tell you what a joy it was to process this image after the rubbish I’ve been processing for months!

More details to come when the final images and animation are ready.

Jupiter + Ganymede (http://www.mikesalway.com.au/2009/05/12/jupiter-and-ganymede-my-best-this-year)

Thanks for looking.

[rogerg]

Amazing to see so much detail on the moon of another planet, great shot Mike :thumbsup:

[cookie8]

Great capture!! Seeing is KING :thumbsup:

[matt]

Very nice Mike....especially the detail Ganymede.

There's no doubt the difference good seeing makes to an image. Very happy you finally got some favourable conditions...

Now send some some my way!!!!:lol:

[jjjnettie]

Very nice detail on Ganymede Mike.
Thanks for getting up early, so we don't have too.

[sheeny]

Top stuff Mike. Your best Ganymede?

Al.

[bird]

Nice one Mike.

cheers, Bird

[JD2439975]

Love that Ganymede detail, truely awesome.

[Quark]

Top stuff Mike,
Amazing job on Ganymede and lovely detail on Jupiter.
You had better seeing then me this morning.

Regards
Trevor

[spearo]

well done
Amazing capture of detail on Ganymede
well done indeed
frank:thumbsup:

[Lester]

Good to see Mike. The detail is very nice, plus Ganymede. That GRS is still hiding.

[seeker372011]

like everyone else love the detail on ganymede

[h0ughy]

nice results Mike

[starfinder]

Beautiful work.

[Screwdriverone]

Fabulous stuff Mike,

Its amazing how much detail you can get in these shots, especially considering that Jupiter is over 750,000,000 km away! its almost like you are in orbit.

Superb!

Cheers

Chris

[reeaal]

Beautiful image. Thanks for sharing it Mike.

[iceman]

Thanks guys, i'm very happy to have finally lucked out with the seeing. It may have even got a little bit better, but I had to stop at 5:30am to get ready for work and catch a 6am train!

I can't wait for the Sun to start rising earlier again!

The GRS has definitely been very elusive, but i'm out here again this morning and the GRS is right at the CM. Unfortunately the seeing isn't very good yet but hopefully it will improve before the GRS sets.

The peltier cooling was an absolute necessity yesterday - temps dropped to about 4deg here near Gosford, but I had the cooling turn on automatically between 1:50am and 3am and when I got up at 3:30am, the mirror was already within 0.5 of ambient.

Cheers again, i'll hopefully post the final images and animation later today.

[troypiggo]

Already commented on POTN, but again - outstanding image. I've been getting up early the last couple of days and noticed you "online" here. Now I realise you've been imaging while we all sleep. Well worth it :)