Jupiter, finally Red and Red Jr - 10/03/2006

iceman (Mike) · #1 10-03-2006, 12:27 PM

Hi guys.

2 clear mornings in a row! Who would've guessed it!? Very tired today though, after my daughter Abbey was up half the night with tonsilitis pain, I was then silly enough to get up at 3:30am for the last half of a GRS transit, and the first half of a Red Jr transit. An Io shadow transit was coming up, but the seeing deteriorated and I had to shoot off to work.

It was a rather frustrating morning, as the seeing was mostly average (4-5/10) followed by moments of 7-8/10, and then back down again. Out of 11 avi's, I think i'll only be able to salvage 1 or 2 decent images - here's 1 of them.

The version on the left is after usual registax and astraimage processing, the image on the right also includes a run through NeatImage for sharpening, noise reduction and contrast enhancement.

Shot @ 10fps, 107 frames of each channel stacked.

Feedback welcome.

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #2 10-03-2006, 01:42 PM

Nice work Mike, as usual..

Bird

Daniel Beringer · #3 10-03-2006, 02:59 PM

Excellent image Mike...The seeing was very good at 4am this morning in Gosford!!

Robert_T · #4 10-03-2006, 03:10 PM

Nice one Mike, plenty of detail.

I broke my drought this morning with (finally) a break in the cloud and looks like I picked up on Jupiter where you left off. Like you, I found the seeing frustrating ... mostly 4-5/10 with moments of 7-8, though it got worse as the morning progressed. I took around 20 avis with the c9.25, but they're not turning out as well as I'd hoped.

cheers,

davidpretorius · #5 10-03-2006, 03:57 PM

Well done Mike, high cloud still a problem here and a jetstream.

Dennis · #6 10-03-2006, 04:40 PM

Hi Mike

10 out of 10 for commitment, and a great image as well.

Cheers

Dennis

asimov (John) · #7 11-03-2006, 01:02 PM

Sorry for my late reply.

Nice work! Your colours on Jupiter are always great, love 'em.

iceman (Mike) · #8 17-03-2006, 09:51 AM

I took 11 avi's on this morning (10th March), but at the time I only went in-depth processing on one of them.

Going back through them this morning, I found another which seemed promising so I went in-depth processing, and came up with the following result.

I think it's better than the original one above.

davidpretorius · #9 17-03-2006, 11:41 AM

i love the turbulence trailing the grs, i keep forgetting that it is gaseous and hence dynamic.
Lovely detail, fantastic night of imaging