SkyWatcher does Jupiter

[matt]

OK

Rough and ready Jupiter from about 1.20am.

Quick run through RegiStax, bit of wavelets.

NexImage and the 8" f5 SkyWatcher.

10fps and 1/20th sec.

Brightness 60%, gain 10%, saturation 100%

Even managed to capture Io emerging from transit. Completely unplanned. Another moon at 10 o'clock.

Off to bed now

P.S I've added an upsized reprocessed version. I don't think it's any better?

[Robert_T]

Originally Posted by matt

OK

Rough and ready Jupiter from about 1.20am.

Quick run through RegiStax, bit of wavelets.

NexImage and the 8" f5 SkyWatcher.

10fps and 1/20th sec.

Brightness 60%, gain 10%, saturation 100%

Even managed to capture Io emerging from transit. Completely unplanned. Another moon at 10 o'clock.

Off to bed now

Not too shabby at all Matt!

giving the 9.25 a spell are you?

[asimov (John)]

Very nice mate! Seems you had better luck than me, after getting Saturn on the lappy-screen I instantly dissmissed the whole idea, packed the scope off back to it's hidy-hole & got back on the internet. Damn jetstream!!

Well done.

[matt]

Thanks guys.

Rob, the 9.25 will make a reappearance very soon but I was keen to see how the 8" compared now that I'm a little better with capture and processing.

I was pleasantly surprised.

I wouldn't say the seeing was particularly great and the moisture levels were fairly high but all in all a good enough result for using the NexImage in the 2.5x Powermate in a scope with 1000mm fl.

[matt]

PS... Asi

I thought the jetstream map for last night looked favourable?

[asimov (John)]

Yes, the map looked ok didn't it? We had a slight low altitude breeze blowing but it was the worst view on the laptop I've seen in months. I assumed the map was dead wrong, because the view was a classic example of a jetstream ripping thru. No hope of even getting close to a decent focus, just a fuzzy blob. Oh well!

Around here the latest game played by the weather gods is for it to be great for astrophotography on a sunday night/monday morning...so I can rock upto work ready for another week of hard yakka absolutely buggered!

[matt]

Ah...yes

Those wacky ol' weather Gods are funny fellows!!!!

I'm glad you said that about the JS map versus what you were actually seeing. I've had some doubts for a while. The maps often tell me something very different from what I'm seeing at the eyepiece/ on the lappy screen. Last night, the maps suggested we should have had great seeing but Jupiter was bulging in all directions and going in and and out of focus quite badly????

What's a very ordinary atsro imager supposed to do!!!!!

[asimov (John)]

I'm gonna out-smart them somehow! Maybe work all day saturday & have monday off. lol.

[ving (David)]

hey wd matty
nice pimple on joop too

[matt]

Thanks Ving

Man, we had fun seeing that zit "pop out" without any warning during processing.

I've already dispatched a 2 billion litre tube of Clearasil across the void!