Jupiter with impact site, July 24

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #1 25-07-2009, 10:14 PM

Here's the first part of a colour image, so far only the red channel is finished...

cheers, Bird

Quark (Trevor) · #2 25-07-2009, 10:29 PM

Looking good Anthony,

Was out at Kinchega National Park last night and the seeing was excellent, I should have stayed home to to image Jup.

Looking forward to the colour version of this image, I am sure it will be a stunner.

Regards
Trevor

IanL · #3 25-07-2009, 10:32 PM

Very nice Bird!
I was looking at you discovery today against one that HST had taken. It really is breath taking images that you are producing with the telescope.
Well done
Ian

Lumen Miner (Mitchell) · #4 25-07-2009, 10:35 PM

Oh!! I can already tell this will be good! Thanks for the effort mate.

I'm still telling everyone I know, that knows about the impact (or even those whom didn't) of your initial post, after your first conclusions. That first post here, should be framed or something... Did you "post" here first or CN?

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #5 25-07-2009, 11:22 PM

Here's a closeup of the impact site, this is straight out of Astra Image after deconvolution. The original data was upsampled 3x before feeding through registax. Red channel only.

cheers, Bird

Matty P (Matt) · #6 25-07-2009, 11:51 PM

Looks very nice Anthony. The seeing conditions must have been excellent.

Looking forward to the colour version.

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #7 26-07-2009, 12:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Quark

Looking good Anthony,

Was out at Kinchega National Park last night and the seeing was excellent, I should have stayed home to to image Jup.

Looking forward to the colour version of this image, I am sure it will be a stunner.

Regards
Trevor

The seeing was excellent for a while until about 1am and then it went south very quickly.

h0ughy (David) · #8 26-07-2009, 12:26 AM

wow isnt there some detail in that

iceman (Mike) · #9 26-07-2009, 07:41 AM

Wow, looking very good. The seeing for me (on that night) started out ok and went bad when the impact site came into view.

Dennis · #10 26-07-2009, 07:43 AM

Thanks Anthony – the impact scar seems to be quite elongated now compared to your discovery image.

Cheers

Dennis

Lester · #11 26-07-2009, 08:41 AM

Another top image. Good stuff Anthony.

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #12 26-07-2009, 09:57 AM

Ok, here is the 3am colour version :-)

cheers, Bird

iceman (Mike) · #13 26-07-2009, 10:00 AM

Nice work Anthony, lovely image. You've been fortunate to have good seeing at the crucial times!

Quark (Trevor) · #14 26-07-2009, 10:16 AM

What a beauty Anthony and just how well resolved is the scar.
I really look forward to the images that you post, this one must rate right up there as one of your very best.

Stunning work
Regards
Trevor

StephenM (Stephen) · #15 26-07-2009, 11:24 AM

Yes, like the others have said, that's another super image Anthony! Great work. It will be very interesting to see how long the scar remains!

Cheers,
Stephen

Miaplacidus (Brian) · #16 26-07-2009, 11:40 AM

Seems to be pretty much neck and neck between you and NASA, at the moment, Anthony. I prefer your images, actually. Besides, those cheaters don't have to contend with an atmosphere. Funny how you seem to be justifying Hubble's existence... I reckon your images could be used to mount a compelling argument that NASA should be redirecting some more of their budget to the amateur astrophotography community.
Congratulations.

Kal (Andrew) · #17 26-07-2009, 01:08 PM

Great image Anthony. Definately elongated now.

allan gould · #18 26-07-2009, 01:12 PM

Beautiful image Bird. It says it all

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #19 26-07-2009, 01:16 PM

You've been so lucky with your seeing!
Exquisite detail!

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #20 26-07-2009, 03:20 PM

If only it didn't take about 4 hours to process each image... why oh why is registax not multi-threaded :-(

Bird