Jupiter & Moon Occultation

rogerg (Roger) · #1 19-02-2013, 12:34 AM

What an awesome night!

Perfect weather.

Perfect equipment operation.

Very happy!

Pics: http://blog.astrophotography.com.au/...tion-what.html

Plenty more to be processed tomorrow.

Steffen · #2 19-02-2013, 12:41 AM

Spectacular shots, especially the first two. Well done!

Cheers
Steffen.

lacad01 (Adam) · #3 19-02-2013, 12:42 AM

Super shots Roger

iceman (Mike) · #4 19-02-2013, 06:29 AM

Spectacular, Roger. Well done!

Dennis · #5 19-02-2013, 06:49 AM

A stunning series Roger, really well captured and presented. Thanks for these amazing views; we totally missed this due to rain and clouds.

I love the partially occulted hi-res Jupiter and Galilean moons shot in particular.

Cheers

Dennis

Saturn%5 (Graeme) · #6 19-02-2013, 07:21 AM

Very nice Roger.

Larryp (Laurie) · #7 19-02-2013, 07:38 AM

Great work, Roger!

Solar (Ralph Smith) · #8 19-02-2013, 08:57 AM

A grade result Rodger, you should be happy with that.

RB (Andrew) · #9 19-02-2013, 08:59 AM

Beautiful images Roger.

kenthoi (Kent) · #10 19-02-2013, 09:08 AM

Excellent shots. Very poor seeing condition in Victoria.

h0ughy (David) · #11 19-02-2013, 09:12 AM

great shots Roger - congrats

StephenM (Stephen) · #12 19-02-2013, 09:15 AM

Excellent images Roger!

Cheers,
Stephen

rogerg (Roger) · #13 19-02-2013, 09:40 AM

Thank you everyone for your replies! wow, so many, much appreciated.

I'm glad you have all enjoyed the images so much. It was so much fun capturing them, the night went so smoothly.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dennis

A stunning series Roger, really well captured and presented. Thanks for these amazing views; we totally missed this due to rain and clouds.

I love the partially occulted hi-res Jupiter and Galilean moons shot in particular.

Cheers

Dennis

Dennis - Enormous shame you were clouded out. In 2005 I was 90% clouded out.

I have updated the first shot with Jupiter and it's moons with a much larger version (1500px wide rather than 900px wide) so you may wish to check it out again

Edit: New image is at the same blog entry: http://blog.astrophotography.com.au/...tion-what.html

rogerg (Roger) · #14 19-02-2013, 10:20 AM

I should also add some technical details ....

Scope: Megrez 90
Mount: Losmandy GM-8 (hadn't been used for a year!)
Camera: Canon 7D

Shots are a combination of full frame RAW individual exposures and video using BackyardEOS's planetary mode.

I used my old Tamron 2x doubler between 7D and Megrez 90 to up the magnification. It's probably the 2x which added some chromatic adoration to the mix.

Considering the short focal length I'm really happy with the detail I got on Jupiter.

Regards,
Roger.

SkyViking (Rolf) · #15 19-02-2013, 10:25 AM

Great captures Roger!
I catched the 2005 occultation but misssed out on this one due to cloud and trees.

colinmlegg (Colin) · #16 19-02-2013, 11:50 AM

Nicely done, Roger. It sure was a gorgeous night. I imaged it from the Bell Tower and a few people wandered by and were awestruck by the view

noeyedeer (Matt) · #17 19-02-2013, 03:13 PM

lovely set of pics!

rogerg (Roger) · #18 19-02-2013, 03:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SkyViking

Great captures Roger!
I catched the 2005 occultation but misssed out on this one due to cloud and trees.

Ahh, doh! I did get results from 2005 but was heavily impacted by cloud. I was using a good old QuickCam back then

Quote:

Originally Posted by colinmlegg

Nicely done, Roger. It sure was a gorgeous night. I imaged it from the Bell Tower and a few people wandered by and were awestruck by the view

Good on you for doing some sidewalk astronomy

.. are we going to see a spectacular photo of the occultation including the Bell Tower?

Quote:

Originally Posted by noeyedeer

lovely set of pics!

Thanks, glad you enjoyed them

seeker372011 (Narayan) · #19 19-02-2013, 08:13 PM

Lovely images, great to see.

Retrograde (Pete) · #20 19-02-2013, 09:10 PM

Wow great pics!