Jupiter Sept 29th & 30th UT

[Quark (Trevor)]

Hi All,

Imaged Jupiter in poor seeing Sept 29th, have attached 1 742nm IR data set along with an animation.

Sept 30th was slightly better, have attached 3 742nm IR data sets, an animation and 2 RGB's one of which is 11 min's derotated in WinJUPOS.

Thanks for looking.
Regards
Trevor

[asimov (John)]

Nice work despite the seeing Trevor. Keep 'em coming.

[Mark_Heli (Mark)]

Hi Trevor,


All your pictures of the planets are amazing. I am interested to understand what equipment and software you use to capture these images. Do you have a picture of your telescope setup?

Also, what software do you use for creating the animations. I noticed the reference to WinJUPOS. Do you use other software as well? I would like to give it a try using my Meade LX90.

Cheers,
Mark

[lepton3 (Ivan)]

Good images Trevor, especially the IR. Can even see the swirling structure within the GRS.

-Ivan

[Derek Klepp]

Thanks Trevor looks a little different this year.

[icytailmark (Mark)]

fantastic images trevor its looking like another good season for jupiter even tho its low in the sky. A quick question trevor do you collimate your mirrors every time you do an imaging session?

[Quark (Trevor)]

Originally Posted by asimov

Nice work despite the seeing Trevor. Keep 'em coming.

Thanks Asi, reckon I am an optimist so whenever it looks remotely like the seeing might be ok I give it a try.

Originally Posted by Mark_Heli

Hi Trevor,


All your pictures of the planets are amazing. I am interested to understand what equipment and software you use to capture these images. Do you have a picture of your telescope setup?

Also, what software do you use for creating the animations. I noticed the reference to WinJUPOS. Do you use other software as well? I would like to give it a try using my Meade LX90.

Cheers,
Mark

Hi Mark & thanks for your comments. If you have a look at my website from the link at the bottom of my posts you can check out my setup. From the resources link here on IIS there is some excellent info on getting started with imaging. Over the years I have used different software for processing. At the moment it depends on how good the conditions are and if I capture in 8 bit avi or 16bit fit format. Anthony Wesley has some very interesting software that he wrote and is available here on IIS. For avi capture Castrator & AutoStakkert 2 work well. AS 2 clearly does a better job regarding multi point alignment & stacking than Reggie Stax6. However I still use RS6 to apply wavelet sharpening mostly although occasionally I do that in Astra Image Pro, which I also use to apply decon sharpening and to merge my RGB channels. Photo Shop CS4 is where I finish my processing and annotate my data prior to posting. I have been dabbling with the derotation process in WinJUPOS but that is quite involved and takes considerable time. Mostly I do my animations using a very old PSP that has "animation shop" within it. If I have the time and enough data I sometimes use WinJUPOS to make my animations.

Originally Posted by lepton3

Good images Trevor, especially the IR. Can even see the swirling structure within the GRS.

-Ivan

Thanks Ivan, the IR is certainly going to be our savior this apparition and the next, for Jupiter.

Originally Posted by Derek Klepp

Thanks Trevor looks a little different this year.

Thanks Derek, certainly so very different than last year when the SEB faded from view.

Originally Posted by icytailmark

fantastic images trevor its looking like another good season for jupiter even tho its low in the sky. A quick question trevor do you collimate your mirrors every time you do an imaging session?

Thanks Mark, I am meticulous with my collimation, if a imaging session requires me to flop the scope during the session or if it extends more than a couple of hours, I recollimate my scope. Prior to the session I collimate with the scope pointing at where it will be mid session and then check the collimation swinging the scope to where it would be about an hour before and after that point.

[Paul Haese]

Great stuff Trev. I have given up on Jupiter for this apparition, except when I go up to Cairns in a couple of weeks. Will call into your place on our way up. Staying in BH one night. So expect a visit.

[Shiraz (Ray)]

remarkably good Trevor - the NIR is particularly detailed. regards Ray

[Quark (Trevor)]

Originally Posted by Shiraz

remarkably good Trevor - the NIR is particularly detailed. regards Ray

Thanks Ray, I think there will be a much greater chance of getting acceptable detail in IR rather than RGB over the next 2 years.

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Great stuff Trev. I have given up on Jupiter for this apparition, except when I go up to Cairns in a couple of weeks. Will call into your place on our way up. Staying in BH one night. So expect a visit.

Thanks Paul, look forward to that, I am also expecting Bird here early in November for a couple of weeks on his return trip from Carnarvon. I have him penciled in for bowls, after all of that training last year reckon we should go well.

[ourkind (Carlos)]

Wow big fan of those coloured images!!!