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Old 02-05-2008, 11:47 AM
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Jupiter - Friday, May 2, 1516UT, Brisbane

Conditions were again unfavourable this morning.

Brisbane seems to be continually parked under the jetstream. I thought there were restrictions on how long you can remain parked in the one place. You can never find a good Jetstream Parking Cop when you need one!

Regardless...I'm on holidays...so I set up again, ignoring all the maps and evidence to the contrary.

There was plenty of wobble on the screen and detail was hard to make out during capture...making focusing tricky.

I decided to use the 2.5x Powermate instead of the 3x barlow, and I think I made the right choice. Happy with the level of detail in this one, despite the conditions and loss of image scale.

GRS looks particularly nice, with detail within. Plenty of activity on the SEB. Also in the North Polar region. Some nice wispy festoon activity in the Equatorial Zone.

Unfortunately, the processing introduced an 'onion ring' at the right limb. Ah well...
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