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Old 25-03-2008, 12:43 PM
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Exclamation Jupiter + Ganymede + Io + GRS in excellent seeing (+ Animation!)

Hi all

On the morning of the 19th March I had the best seeing i've had this year and captured loads of data which I've only just finished processing.

The seeing started out average when Jupiter was only 37° but improved throughout the 2 hours of the session when Jupiter rose to 60° right before dawn, and the seeing was excellent! Transparency was mostly good throughout, but dew on the mirrors reduced transparency in the last few runs and the last avis of the session had to be recorded at 15fps.

A 14-frame animation of the 2 hours can be downloaded here (1.1mb gif):
Jupiter + GRS + Ganymede + Io Animation

Attached are 4 images from the session, separated by approx 30 minutes each. Captured at 30fps with the DMK21AU04 and my 12" newt.

Thanks for looking.
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