Jupiter Oct 9th

[Quark]

Hi All,

Imaged Jup in fair conditions last night, the GFS charts were promising but the seeing never got much above ordinary. Typically in this sort of conditions most of the R channel data looked good but was let down by the G & B data.
Have some nice detail in my IR images which are much less effected by less than great conditions.

Have posted 2 RGB & 5 807nm IR images.

Thanks for looking.
Regards
Trevor

[John Hothersall]

Another good set with strong IR, if only I could get to this standard - anyway I live in hope.

John.

[Lester]

Another good set of captures Trevor. Thanks for the views.

[mswhin63]

Great stuff Trevor, wondering how you go with RGB on Jupiter and the effect on it rotation and the alignment. I must take time to change each colour and then combine or do you have a filter wheel?

[Shiraz]

Excellent images for the conditions Trevor. The seeing down here was much as you describe - very good in R and pretty ordinary in G and B. It was almost like imaging through two different intruments and I was wondering if I had developed some chromatic aberration somewhere in the imaging chain. Wonder what the mechanism is for such a drastic change in seeing with wavelength?
regards Ray

[Quark]

Thanks very much John, the 807nm IR filter really blocks a significant amount of light although it works well with large aperture scopes. A better alternative for smaller scopes may be the 742nm IR filter. I thought you might be interested in this info so have attached a link.
http://www.astronomik.com/en/astronomik_proplanet_ir_742_filter. html



Thanks for your comment lester.



Thanks Malcolm, the rotation is not a problem. My scope is on a GEM, each channel is captured for 50 sec's and I use a filter wheel. Allowing 10 sec's to rotate the filter wheel and start the next capture means that it takes about 3 min's to capture the 3 channels. When all channels are processed I align them on detail within the image, typically using the small white oval storms. This generally means that the G channel will be offset by about 1 or 2 pixels and the B channels by about 3 pixels. The detail on the planet will be aligned but the limbs will have a very slight blue tinge on one side and red on the other. I would think that unless this was pointed out that it would probably not be noticed.



Thanks Ray, it certainly has been an up and down year, thus far. The shorter wavelengths are far more effected by our atmosphere Ray, thats why the Moon appears red during a total Lunar eclipse, the longer red wavelengths pass pretty well unimpeded through our atmosphere, skimming the limb of the Earth and illuminating the Moon. If we have really stable air overhead with no shear or turbulence between layers then we have a higher probability of recording good G & B channel data.

[Clayton]

Very nice Trevor

[Troy]

Nice pictures Trevor, well done :thumbsup:

[Quark]

Thanks very much Clayton & Troy for your comments.

Cheer's
Trevor

[DavidU]

Spectacular as usual Trev.

[michaellxv]

Well done Trevor. Maintaining a high standard as usual.

[Matt Wastell]

Hi Trevor,
These are really good images - well done and thanks for keeping us clouded in folk up to date - 3 weeks now of solid clouds and rain!

[Quark]

Thanks for your most generous comment David.



Thanks very much Michaell.



Thanks very much Matt, just discovered a problem with my peltier cooler, I reckon that it must have been slowly getting worst over the last couple of months. Had a high resistence fault across one of the inline fuse holders so I was dropping heaps of current across the fuse instead of across the pelt. This means my pelt has really been doing buggar all for some time. Now I have fixed the problem I expect to produce higher quality data.