Jupiter, Io and Shadow Transit (and Animation) - 8th August

[iceman (Mike)]

Hi all

On Saturday night 8th August, I was able to capture some images of Jupiter with Io and its shadow in transit. The seeing was just above average – good enough to capture albedo features on Io, including the dark polar regions in contrast against the cloud tops of Jupiter.

The best image from the session is attached. Io and it’s shadow are seen on the left, the Wesley Impact Scar is at top left just setting, and Oval BA is on the top right just rising.

And click below to see an animation of all 6 frames captured on the night, in seeing that started at about 4-5/10 and improved slightly to peak at 6/10 but never got any better than that.

Jupiter with Io Transit and Animation - 8th August

Thanks for looking.

[Troy]

Nice picture Mike with good detail in IO
Hopefully we all will get better seeing soon
Love the animation

[Quark (Trevor)]

Nice image and animation Mike,

Really like the job you have done on Io, it really does have that 3D look about it.

Cheers
Trevor

[Lester]

Very nice image Mike. Good to see you are getting some reasonable views of Jupiter.

All the best.

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Thanks Mike, excellent images as always

Bird

[Harpspitfire]

outstanding mike!- specially with that Io detail!!

[iceman (Mike)]

Thanks guys - a few cloudy nights has let me catch up on some sleep.

I'm ready for clear skies again now.

[Harpspitfire]

let me ask you mike, did you use R5 on this image?- or did you use all the fancy RGB split stuff too?- thx- john

[iceman (Mike)]

Hi John

I used Registax 5.

Re RGB, Now that I use a mono camera, I don't need to do any RGB split, because the video data is already split (capturing R, G, B runs separately).

Cheers