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Jup Oct 29th in Bonza seeing.
Hi All,
Imaged Jupiter last night Oct 29th.
It started out clear and very still with no wind but it had been a hot day and when I commenced my first capture sequence the ambient temp was still 27.2 C. I didn't really expect the seeing to be more than average due to the temperature, however I was most surprised and somewhat elated at the quality of the live feed from my DMK. Even the blue channel looked good and revealed some very nice structure & detail.
Later in the night my imaging was slightly effected by some high level Cirrus that was wafting through, I could not actually see the cloud but its presence was detected by the falling off of the signal in my histogram.
I would rate the seeing at 7 to 7 1/2 / 10 a very nice night and clearly my highest resolution images for Oct, well I was away on holidays for 17 nights early in the month. I must say that nights like this really justify living in the remote Out Back of Australia.
I have attached 4 of the 7 RGB's from this night covering the CMII at 230.3, 250.3, 288.9 and 298.6 degrees respectively.
For these RGB's the data was good enough to stack between 900 & 1000 frames of the available 1200 frames from each channel.
My first image at 10:39 UTC has an interesting view of the GRS close to the Eastern limb, of particular interest is the white feature seemingly streaming out of the GRS surround into the SEB. I note there has already been considerable discussion on this feature but I didn't expect it to appear so prominent so close to the limb. Although the SEB is fading the four barges in this image are still very bright red and there really is considerable detail, overall, throughout this and the other images.
The second of the four images was slightly effected by some high level Cirrus cloud.
I am very confident of being able to extract more from this data, note I am a bit of an old fossil and a command line challenged ex mine worker. These images have undergone a pretty quick processing job so that I could post them today, however I will be putting a lot more effort into this data over ther next few days.
Thanks for looking.
Regards
Trevor
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