Jupiter 22nd Feb from tassie

[davidpretorius]

Again high cloud obscured the view, the moon and jupiter and venus were able to shine through.

Seeing around 6/10, although at times ganymede was in view nicely, so maybe it pushed 8/10.

This image is an 10 fps optimized colour capture with registax processing by aligning on the moon. Medium wavelets.

Got a couple of raw mode at 5fps as well, so will work thru those as time permits. Also tried a few at 80% and 50% gain to see if there is a difference

Also viewed jupiter and 4 moons right up until 6:50am thru the eyepiece. Could still see it easily thru the finder at this time.

[Robert_T]

Go Dave! Another one to be proud of :) How do you do it though, about one or at most two early mornings a week is all my addled head can cope with otherwise I'm falling asleep at my desk.

This looks very similar to one my recent shots from a couple weeks back also taken with high cloud about, especially the white patches appearing like missing teeth within the main equatorial bands.

Ganymede looks way big in this too- an effect of the transparency?

cheers,

[iceman]

Another nice one DP, look forward to seeing the fully processed version.

[Dennis]

Wow - check out those white ovals and blue festoons - great image Dave.

Cheers

Dennis

[RB]

Beautiful David,

Lovely round moon and those festoons on Joop, amazing.

[acropolite]

Nice work Dave, I know just how bad the seeing was. Put the LX out to cool and did some viewing around 11, then gave up in disgust. Got up at 4:30 to more of the same. :tasdevil:

[robin]

Dave, you might have had 6/10 seeing & high cloud but thats still a mighty fine pic.

[ving]

great one dave. thats an interesting configuration of moons hey :)

[davidpretorius]

thanks guys,

yes ving, i always have a look thru the eyepiece and those 4 moons jumped out at me, so i thought i better grab a lower mag version.

Rob, not sure of the scale of ganymede, the focus was pretty tight, but yes it does look biggish!

[bird]

Thanks DP, nice images!

[Hitchhiker]

Very nice image, as usual, Dave.

You always seem to make the best of the conditions. Well done!

[asimov]

Listen man...How about postin' some of your reject shots for a change, one gets sicka seein' DP-hubble shots all the time!...........................:lo l: :)