15th April Jupiter

[Lester]

Hi all,

This one isn't as good as my last, but still better than I have seen here most times. Jupiter was very steady visually, but the sharpness of the detail was varying quite a bit.

Anyway got a few avis with the 14" LX200, ext. tube, 2x barlow and DFK.

Deconvolution= M.E. 1.5 and 12 gaussian and then M.E. 1.2 and 8 exponential.

That pulled out most of the detail, with very little to be done in Photoshop, just a bit of unsharpmask.

The first is with north up and the second the same image, just rotated 180 degrees.

[iceman (Mike)]

Massive image scale, Lester. Another nice image.

I almost contemplated setting up last night - it was clear when I went to bed but it was raining when I woke up for work, so I made the right decision

[Dennis]

Excellent images Lester. There is a lot of detail visible on the Jovian disc, some very interesting formations. If only I knew more about Jupiter's topography.

Cheers

Dennis

[Lester]

Thanks Mike and Dennis for your comments.

Here is another avi processed, that shows 3 close dots on the bottom edge of the SEB at the centre of Jupiter. South is to the bottom.

Be interesting to see if these merge together to form one.

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Nice work Lester! I had a look out this morning but the seeing was very poor so no data captured.

cheers, Bird

[Lester]

Thanks Anthony.

Looks like the jetstream is breaking up a bit for S.A. at last.

Hope you chaps in the east can still turn out some crackers.