Jupiter from Lostock

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Here's a Jupiter image from Friday night / saturday morning. It's still very affected by the morning sun, but getting better!

Capture details: 1 minute each filter @ 35fps, FL=11000mm

Scope: http://www.acquerra.com.au/astro/lexx.html

cheers, Bird

[davidpretorius]

yes i was watching the brightness / gamma /gain.

it seemed to change very suddenly over 1/2 hr.

this is still very nice image and very exciting as there are some great nights ahead.

I looked thru starry night and March will be an absolute feast for moon activity!!!

[iceman (Mike)]

Hey that's not bad Anthony, great detail for the conditions. Did the Friday data turn out better than the Thursday?

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Mike, I had a hard disk die while I was at teh camp - I lost the thursday night data, and most of my data from November 2006 onwards :-(.

Turns out it was the external usb enclosure that's faulty, not the drive, but it's too late now to recover the data, it got thoroughly scrubbed while I was trying to recover it. I think the drive was writing empty sectors :-(

Anyway, I think the friday night data was better...

cheers, Bird

[iceman (Mike)]

ah what a bummer!

I'll process my Jupiter data today, maybe it will be ok. I'm doing my Thursday Saturn now, it's not bad.

[ving (David)]

good on ya anthony. best of the season so far?

[Gasman]

Excellent image Anthony. Hope it looks as good when it starts rising over here in the UK.
Steve