Here's my double transit tonight before the clouds came to kill the show. This is a rough image and I will do more processing later, must get going to a friends house for dinner. Pretty happy with the image, seeing was 7/10.
I won't repeat here what I sent in my e mail (jealousy is a cruel thing), but this is a very nice shot. I too saw it, but through semi thick, high cloud. Well done.
Paul, Your back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!
(insert Circus music here) Terrific! and with a fantastic pic as well!
That shot is so clear. Wierd how the Moons shadows are twice as big as the Moons themselves. Must be something to do with the angle the shadows hit the surface.
Last edited by ballaratdragons; 17-06-2005 at 08:42 PM.
While my above posting may not have eluded I too partook in this fine spectacle. I had taken possesion of a new scope, an Intes Micro MN76 (yes another one), and we were fooling around just on dark. There was high cloud, and rain due later. The moon provided a very pleasing first light, and then Jupiter. Scope etc was put away, and I considered the evening finished especially with the impending weather. I took another look about 1 - 2 hours later and to my surprise it wasn't raining, and was actually clearish, well clear enough for another play.
Scope/mount etc was out in quick time, and Jupiter again the centre of attaention. Though the cloud was a pain the seeing was pretty good, and it was apparent that the double transit was happening (even though I didn't know about it prior to looking). I quickly set up for a rushed avi, and the cloud made it's presence known. I need 1/25th second, with the brightness at 50% and the gain at MAX!!! I took a sequence anyway, and got the slave to look at them today. So So, but better than I expected.
Roll on some decent weather
Gary
Fantastic image showing a wealth of detail in Jupiter! I hope you don't mind, but I used Corel Photopaint to copy your post and selectively bring out the two moons to make them more visible. Here is the result.
What is interesting, is that one of the moons definitely appears larger than the other, in spite of the enhancement that I performed being the same for each moon. This must mean that you have captured the actual extended discs of theses moons.
Cheers
Dennis
PS - Attached image is a copy from Paul's original post
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good pic to me.
