Jupiter from last night - 17/08

[iceman (Mike)]

Hi all

This image was captured in variable seeing, never peaking to more than just above average.

We've had clear skies recently, but a continuing run of horrible seeing and it doesn't look like ending any time soon.

Cheers

[Garyh]

Still thats a nice Jup Mike!
Loads of detail and contrast there!
Actually imaged Jup last night as well at about 8:30pm and the seeing sounds the same as what you had..
Don`t know if its worth posting but..lol
cheers Gary

[alphajuno (Dave)]

Very nice pic!! That long diagonal storm is very interesting.

Seeing has still been pretty bad here. I thought it might be OK tonight but no dice.

[Screwdriverone (Chris)]

Beautiful Mike,

Cheers

Chris

[RB (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by iceman

This image was captured in variable seeing, never peaking to more than just above average.

Amazing amount of detail in there though, despite the conditions.

[AlexN]

Sounds like the weather I've been having here Mike, wishie washie seeing definitely dampens my spirits when it comes to imaging... I've not been out in nearly a week

Thats a great image despite the seeing, you've done well to get some fine detail out of the polar regions..

Alex.

[RobF (Rob)]

Agreed - beautiful work - thanks for posting

[Lester]

Nice image Mike, with good detail and contrast.

Well done.

[theodog (Jeff)]

Nice one Mike.
To produce an image like that, how long are you imaging?
Is it a sum of say 100x1sec with time in between?
Great detail considering the conditions.
Well done.

[iceman (Mike)]

Thanks guys. Was good to be out there again, though it was bloody cold and i'm finding it harder and harder to motivate myself to get out there lately. Don't know if it's just the run of bad seeing or part of a natural cycle of motivated and unmotivated.

Originally Posted by jeff

To produce an image like that, how long are you imaging?
Is it a sum of say 100x1sec with time in between?

I use mono+RGB, so I capture each filter at 30fps (1/30s exposure), for about 50 seconds per channel. There's about 10-15 seconds between each channel for changing the filter, changing settings and adjusting focus.

So I'd capture about 1500 frames for each colour channel, and for this seeing, I stacked about 550-650 frames in each channel in registax.

[Striker (Tony)]

Thanks guys. Was good to be out there again, though it was bloody cold and i'm finding it harder and harder to motivate myself to get out there lately. Don't know if it's just the run of bad seeing or part of a natural cycle of motivated and unmotivated.

Its either your getting old or Mid life Crisis, and seeing I know your not old then it's the other...sorry

Great image Mike with plenty of detail.

[Bassnut (Fred)]

Again, a cracker Joop Mike. I wonder, mmmmmmm, where the hell can you go with this now, he?. Is it possible, to stack every Jupiter youve done over the years to one mega pic?. Obviously the subs that have the same orientation of its rotation.

[rat156]

Hi Mike,

It's nice, but why is it purple?

Cheers
Stuart

[iceman (Mike)]

I can see why it would look a bit purple.. It has a blueish tinge on this laptop but these days I've found that if it looks too blue on this laptop, it's usually just right for most people's LCD's.

If I process the colour to look right on my laptop, it's usually too red for everyone else.

[matt]

Looks purplish on my laptop too.

[RB (Andrew)]

Yes I noticed it was slightly purple too.

[iceman (Mike)]

yeh I've noticed it today too. I'll reprocess.