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Trevor, I can't stress the importance of good seeing... without good raw data there's no chance to produce these sort of images.
But much better images are possible even with this raw data... at the moment we limit ourselves to 3 minutes or less of data on Jupiter because of it's rotation, this is only a problem because we're stacking images onto a 2D surface. If there were a stacking program that let you capture (say) an hour of data and stacked it onto a 3D model of Jupiter, with each frame in the right place, then a huge improvement would be made. I keep talking about this, and maybe one day I'll write something if nobody else does :-)
Also I have plans to use two scopes simultaneously - the 13.1" and 16" - with different filters sets. This would give me 2x the data and using different filters (eg CMY on one scope and RGB on the other) also reduces the noise.
Maybe next year I can try some of these things and see hpw far we can go...
cheers, Bird
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