Jupiter and Saturn Feb 5th from Melbourne

[John K]

I am quickly finding out why the Great Melbourne Telescope in the 1860's (at the time the worlds largest steerable telescope) was a white elephant. Melbourne's weather!

Anyhow, the clouds cleared for a while last night, here are the results:


JUPITER (Fully Processed)

http://www-us.flickr.com/photos/johnkazanas/95512963/

http://static.flickr.com/32/95512963_12fdfb9735_o.jpg (larger original size)


JUPITER ORIGINAL (Registax & Wavelets)

http://www-us.flickr.com/photos/johnkazanas/95512964/


SATURN (Registax & Wavelets only)

http://www-us.flickr.com/photos/johnkazanas/95512967/

http://static.flickr.com/40/95512967_d3ddd79862_o.jpg (larger original size)

[davidpretorius]

great saturn!

what time did you have a go at jupiter.

for me saturn was a mess at 1pm, not even worth a shot, whereas 5 hours later at 6am, it was great

[John K]

Hi David,

I think I captured Jupiter at 5.15am. By then the wind had died down and the seeing has improved a bit (the advice on the forum helped! thanks guys!)

[iceman]

Wow, both really nice shots! Heaps of detail on Jupiter, especially for 4/10 seeing!

[acropolite]

DP Wrote Would have been daylight here then, did you see it in daylight???

[ving]

the sun would have been up for atleast 1/2hr by 6am here!!!

anyhow, great pics john :)
we are seeing some really good jupiter pics now :)

[davidpretorius]

yup finished imaging at 6:14 and then had a 10 minute play with venus and then was just able to pick jupiter thru the finder scope and then spent say 10 - 15 minutes viewing at 250x, 500x, 1000x.

It was so nice and steady, 500x was very nice (12.5mm series 500 through the 5x powermate), 1000x (6.5mm through the powermate) was poor.

So i finished up at around 6:45am i estimate.

I have been packing up the imaging gear as soon as the sky starts to brighten, but i will not do that anymore! Jupiter is transitting at around 7 to 7.30 am, so it is worth a look from sat 6am onwards at the moment

[EzyStyles]

hey david, with the 5x powermate, how clear is that compared to a 3x barlow? curious as i might get one of these. Since the magnification is greater than a 3x barlow, are images more distorted/blurrier? thanks.

Nice pics john well done :)

[Robert_T]

beautiful Jupiter John, equisite detail despite the poor seeing - imagine if you had imaged this at 7 or 8/10 :)