Jup Sept 8th in good seeing.

[Quark]

Hi All,

Had been checking up on the progress of the high pressure system crossing the county all day. It arrived last night and provided very good seeing.

I planned on capturing RGB's for every 20 degrees longitude CMII but as the seeing was so good and I wanted as much coverage of the Wesley Impact remnant as possible, I imaged every 10 degrees of the Impact region.

The live feed to my laptop looked great and apart from a few hiccups all went well.

I have posted 7 high res RGB's plus an animation of the last 2 1/4 hrs of my imaging session.

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/uploads/20090908JupAnim.gif


I have also put together a Polar Projection animation of the transit of the Wesley Impact remnant. The impact remnant is the two dark strands in the South Polar region.

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/uploads/20090908JupPolarAnim.gif

Learned something new last night, it pays to pull the MotoFocus cable out of the remote hand piece when it is not in use, right in the middle of all this great seeing the cable tightened up on the focuser and shifted Jupiter out of the field of my capture screen, wont happen again.


Thanks for looking.
Regards
Trevor

[multiweb]

That's a pretty awesome serie you got there. Very very sharp. Top work :thumbsup:

[DavidU]

Beauties ! Well done. I hope that High pressure cell comes here

[Matt Wastell]

Hi Trevor

A super series of images - pic 6 is my favourite, really nice colours, tone and detail - well done on a top night!

Sweet!

[kinetic]

Absolutely outstanding stuff Trev....

I'm just loving how those polar anims are turning out...
Agreed, pic 6 is a cracker!

We have the high but have had high cloud for days now! :(

Steve

[Lester]

Fantastic set of consistantly sharp images there, Trevor.

I tried again tonight, but still getting fuzz balls.

[Paul Haese]

Lovely work, we have had lovely seeing here, but cloud refuses to move. You are having a good year.:thumbsup:

[Quark]

Thanks Marc, I had some pretty stable air to image through, even the live feed looked good. I think I have had times previously when my processed imaged didn't look as good as the live feed did on this night.



Thanks David, isn't it the 11th commandment that high pressure systems shall avoid Melbourne.:whistle:



Thanks Matt, it was a most satisfying capture session indeed.



Thanks Steve, your tip regarding adding a few copies of the first frame to create a pause at the start of the animation works a treat.



Thanks Lester, sorry to here that, I thought this high might have done the trick for you.



Thanks Paul, thats a bummer when you know full well that there is stable air overhead but the cloud doesn't co-operate. Yes I have had a good year, from Jan through until the middle of July I was able to record Saturn data for Georg, pretty much well on a weekly basis and since I have switched my attention to Jupiter I have managed a steady stream of data for it as well.

I reckon it must have a fair bit to do with how my geographic position relates to the path that the high pressure systems cross our continent.
In 2008, when tracking the major electrical storm on Saturn, I was also able to supply data on a very consistent basis over an extended period.

[starlooker]

Terrific pics! :thumbsup:

[Paul Haese]

Trevor that is an interesting point about the high pressures. Anthony and I have been searching for some time for the ideal location for the 2018 apparitions of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Your site is looking like an ideal position for a camp there for a couple of weeks. I know it is a long way off but I was considering going to Far north WA for that time.

[Quark]

Thanks Duc glad you enjoyed them.



Sounds like a plan to me, albeit a long term one.

[Rigel003]

Beautiful images, Trevor. You're on a roll there while the rest of us just look at the clouds.