Jupiter 20th Jan GRS interaction

[von Tom]

Not too clear an image (I haven't aligned the RGB channels!) but I thought this was an interesting view of Jupiter last night at 7:41pm through poor seeing.

The Great Red Spot is right in the middle of some action with the SEB revival bands with a big black spot on its northern boundary.

Cheers,

Tom

[mswhin63]

Hey Tom, great improvment, small steps and you will get there for sure. I am beginning to think the DSLR can still be a good low cost combination camera now that I have been able to get 22 FPS out of my 450D.

[von Tom]

Hi Malcolm. This time I added another 2x teleconverter to the two 1.4x with the 550D. The seeing really didn't help and with that combination the contrast is starting to suffer. I can't wait to see what a night of good seeing will bring.

[mswhin63]

Jupiter is starting to get low in the sky and this can have an affect of seeing as well. I know that it is going to be difficult for me as the lower elevation leads over the top of the Kwinana Refineries and all the haze spoils the view.

[von Tom]

This evening was clear and I found Jupiter before sunset. At 6:38pm Brisbane time I took about 3700 frames of Jupiter when it was about 40 degrees elevation. The seeing was much much better.

[mswhin63]

Can see a bit more detail in that one. Bit over done on the Waveletts but not bad.

[von Tom]

I posted this in another thread, but here is a 30sec video from the same session as the image above:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vontom/5380817994/