Smaller Joop + 2 moons - 11/02/2006

[iceman]

Hi.

I took this image on Saturday morning with the 3x barlow, as the transparency was so bad I couldn't get the 5x to come to focus.

Jupiter was about 65-70° altitude when it was captured, and you can see the difference when you need to align the RGB channels - there is very little shift required when the planet is captured at high altitudes.

Not the greatest images, but got 2 moons and the GRS.. Only had a small number of frames to work with and clouds kept passing over, making the change in brightness difficult to work with.

Anyway here it is.

[Robby]

100 points for determination Mike... Yes, not one of your best, but a grand effort none-the-less considering the conditions!
Me, I would have given up straight away and gone to bed..... \
Cheers

[davidpretorius]

love the shape of ganymede!!!

he is going to be a imaging target in his own right soon, i reckon

a lovlely shot!

[ving]

how do you know ganymede is male dave?

great shot mike :) 2 moons and still heaps of detail in less than favourable conditions.

[bird]

Ganymede is a nice disk in this image. It is one of the targets I want to revisit sometime soon ... the one and only time I got a good image of it last year was a total fluke.

Bird

[davidpretorius]

can't you see the single bump???

dunno, i think of saturn as her, jupiter mars neptune uranus as him, sun as him, moon as her, telescope as her, my pink frilly dress as her???

i am still contemplating the 2.4 barlow in the 5x powermate on the moons of jupiter, seeing better be good i reckon

[ving]

is the powermate a her?
I'd love to see someone try and image ganymede :D

[Robert_T]

seeing will want to be 10/10 for that escapade DP... though I have thought of stacking my 2.5 and 4x powermates just to see what happens of course;)

Great image Mike, lovely though soft detail on Jupiter with the disc of Ganymede make for an inspiring view.

cheers,