Jupiter from Murrumbateman, 22nd July

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Last night saw some more excellent seeing around here for a short while at about 9pm. I'd estimate that it was very close to 10/10 for about 15 minutes or so while I was capturing.

Here's one of the images, right in the middle of the best seeing.

Scope: http://www.acquerra.com.au/astro/lexx.html
Capture: 60 seconds in each channel of R,G,B @ 40fps

regards, Bird

[Dennis]

Oh my goodness Anthony; that one made me fall off my chair. That is a truly amazing image.

Cheers

Dennis

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Nicely timed image, Bird! The GRS really stands out nicely the way the white band curves around it. It makes the GRS look better than usual.

A very nice image capture too.

Is that a Galilean shadow on the right of GRS?

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Thanks Dennis, it's taken all day to process the data... Ken, that dark spot is a storm of some sort, it's been hanging around the same location (relative to the grs) for a coupla months now. Dunno what's going on there but it's showing up in everyone's images of that area.

cheers, Bird

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Wowsers!!! Great spot Scott!!!

Bird when are you heading up to Qld. I for one could use some processing lessons.

[sheeny (Al)]

Wow! there's some detail there!Excellent!

Al.

[DavidU (Dave)]

That's insane ! geez amazing.

[IanL]

Amazing the detail is superb. Well done!

[Dietmar]

that is an APOD image, Anthony!
send it to the NASA APOD guys.
incredible stuff!

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

Beaut image Bird, well done. Your images just keep setting the standards

[rumples riot]

Superb image Anthony, I would like some of that seeing too. LOL.

Well done.

[davidpretorius]

a blinder bird.........

what a season bird, great to see you have found a great seeing spot so close to home

very happy for you!

[hevelsky]

Excellent image Anthony, Well done
The SEB outbreak is very chaotic
and the NEB is very busy....

[iceman (Mike)]

Unbelievable Anthony, you keep getting better and better. Talk about making the most out of the seeing!

Incredible result, even better than your June 23 shot.

Thanks for giving me something to aspire to.

[acropolite (Phil)]

Fantastic image Bird, I was beginning to think we had seen the last good images of Jupiter this season.

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Thanks guys, I'm surprised too that there are still periods of good seeing in the middle of Canberra winter... This is our first winter at Murrumbateman so I really don't have any history to look at, but there seems to be a trend of stable temperature and good seeing around 9pm every night that lasts about 30 minutes to an hour. After that the seeing goes down the drain in a big way.

So I'm trying to be ready to image at 8.30 each night, and just hang around waiting for the good stuff :-) last night (Monday night) was a writeoff, there was a high haze that never lifted.

Next year is gonna be fun... permanent observatory, two scopes, synchronised capture... mmmm.

cheers, Bird

[Ric]

What a stunning image Bird, the GRS looks like it going to jump right out of the screen.

Top stuff

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

I've made a short set of 3 video clips, for each of red,green and blue from the raw data for this image for those of you who have more bandwidth than you can use :-)

You'll find links to the 3 avi files here:

http://www.acquerra.com.au/astro/gal...ter/index.live

Click on the link to the 20070722 image and you'll see 3 avi files, each one is about 4Mb in size.

ps, I used Xvid as the codec, if media player doesn't understand it you may have to install the free divx player and codecs from www.divx.com

The video quality is not great, but I tried to find a good tradeoff between small size and showing enough detail that you could get a feel for the seeing.

regards, Bird

[little col]

shockingly scarey

[JethroB76 (Jeff)]

Very, very nice