Jupiter with PGR Flea3, April 20

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Used the new Flea3 on Jupiter for the first time this morning, I'm very happy with the results. The camera seems more sensitive in all channels, especially so in red.

You can see Ganymede very prominent in transit, and Oval BA rotating out of view on the lower right (eastern limb).

The seeing was very good, spoiled only by the low altitude and local fog. This is a real-size image, running at 50 fps in red,green,blue for 1 minute each. Gain was set to 26/33 (sorry, can't give actual gain figures yet due to software issues).

At that level the red channel was close to saturation, green and blue were > 50% on the histogram.

cheers, Bird

[iceman (Mike)]

Very nice indeed. Very promising camera.
I can tell already this is going to be a great season for you.

[Lester]

They are promising results with the Flea, all the best.

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Thanks Lester, also looking forward to images from over your way, you had some great images last year.

cheers, Bird

[Quark (Trevor)]

Top result Bird for your first effort on Jupiter with the Flea.

Regards
Trevor

[Troy]

Nice picture Anthony,
Are you finding with the new camera more tweaking with the levels to get the colour right?

[coco1 (Stephen)]

Very nice, Ganymede looks great, almost 3d....................

[Matt Wastell (Matt)]

Congrats on a successful session with the imager. Looking forward to more great images. Thanks for sharing!

[michaellxv (Michael)]

Very nice.
If this is your first image with this camera who knows where you will end up.

[Doodles23 (Dave Bleser)]

God loves Bird. The jet stream has been calmed down to almost nothing directly over Canberra today, and hopefully, tonite. Things are looking as good for the astro folks in Cebu as well. The United States and Europe are, as usual, a complete joke.

[Doodles23 (Dave Bleser)]

I'd like to know what the maximum frame rate you could capture a Jupiter image this size with your old camera: the DragonFly2 ????

Are you able to double the frame rate over the DragonFly2 on R,G and B?

[iceman (Mike)]

Originally Posted by Doodles23

God loves Bird. The jet stream has been calmed down to almost nothing directly over Canberra today, and hopefully, tonite. Things are looking as good for the astro folks in Cebu as well. The United States and Europe are, as usual, a complete joke.

I should be out there, with a jet stream like that!

I see Jupiter every morning on my way to the train station and keep thinking I need to setup the telescope

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Dave was right - the seeing this morning was amazing...

Bird