Finally some clear skies! After 2 weeks of rain and cloud the weather was predicted to be cold and frosty, so it was time to try Jupiter again...
The seeing was mostly poor but there was a short burst of reasonable seeing around 3:10am, with the ambient temp at -1C it was the coldest night of imaging so far this season.
Jupiter shows many details, including the Oval BA complex near top centre, and some very dark spots in the North Polar region (bottom). The darkest of these spots seems to have a bright centre but it will need better seeing to resolve it properly.
The NEB is very active, with a number of visible rifts and festoons reaching up toward the equator. By contrast the SEB has very quiet activity.
So much happening in this image, most interesting and as you mentioned, the structure and detail impinging down into the central region of the STrZ looks very interesting.
Strewth -1C, time to break out the thermals.
The satellite image and jet stream map are looking great for tomorrow morning.
Given the quality of this stunning image, I gather the near full moon doesn't effect planetary imaging as much as dso?
If this is a totally newb question, I understand but just trying to get my head around the best times to image, or else I would have been out this morning too.
Darren, the moon has no real effect because of the very short exposures being used and the brightness of Jupiter. The only problem might happen if the moon was very close to Jupiter and some reflected light came directly into the camera, but I've never seen that happen.
Moonlight is a blessing for planetary imagers, we can see where we're going for a change :-)
Stunning image! I was out this morning too, though it looks like you got the better of the seeing.
I'll have something later today or tomorrow to post, but now i'm in no hurry LOL
Lovely image!
The seeing was quite poor for most of the session - I was out there from midnight until 4am, and really only this short period around 3.10am was good. For most of the time the white polar spots in the southern hemisphere were very soft and ill defined.
There was lots of high haze/cloud around, and some local fog that turned into a real pea-souper by 4am.
That’s a cracker of a Jupiter Anthony, quite a remarkable achievement given the relatively uncooperative seeing! I had a look last night but the seeing was just not up to it to make it worthwhile capturing any avi’s – I’m glad I didn’t now!
