Jupiter 29Jan with ASI120mm

[allan gould]

Just after the big wet followed closely by the big blow, I looked out at the night sky and could see some sucker holes near and around Jupiter and so suffering 'cabin fever' I decided to test the ASI120MM again. Initially I tried it with a 2x barlow but the seeing was absolutely terrible and the planet kept bouncing around almost out of frame so I just persevered with the camera in the 10"SCT. Poor seeing but I was amazed what came out of Autostakkert and PS. No colour as no filters as yet. I really would love to see what this camera can do with good steady seeing.
Comments welcomed

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Looks good, Allan!

[Saturn%5 (Graeme)]

Nice Allan, just waiting for this camera to be back in stock and i will grab one looking to see more from this camera.

[h0ughy (David)]

well its cruddy here in Newcastle - no sucker holes to speak of. I hope to be in the swing of things next week so will be using the camera with a filter wheel set on a C11. I really admire what you have got with the camera

[Solar (Ralph Smith)]

Nice detail. You should get some great shots when the seeing comes good.
I will look forward to them.
I wonder how that camera would go on the sun?

[h0ughy (David)]

Originally Posted by Solar

Nice detail. You should get some great shots when the seeing comes good.
I will look forward to them.
I wonder how that camera would go on the sun?

I will hopefully let you know next week - when the ruddy coastal cloud buggers off

[ourkind (Carlos)]

Nice photo Allan I think that came out really well

[allan gould]

Originally Posted by Solar

Nice detail. You should get some great shots when the seeing comes good.
I will look forward to them.
I wonder how that camera would go on the sun?

It would propbably melt!

[allan gould]

Originally Posted by Larryp

Looks good, Allan!

Thanks Laurie, appreciated

Originally Posted by Saturn%5

Nice Allan, just waiting for this camera to be back in stock and i will grab one looking to see more from this camera.

It will be worth the wait.

Originally Posted by h0ughy

well its cruddy here in Newcastle - no sucker holes to speak of. I hope to be in the swing of things next week so will be using the camera with a filter wheel set on a C11. I really admire what you have got with the camera

I hope you get some clear weather soon and I suspect it will be good imaging the sun. I can recommend SharpCap as the image capture software. Very intuative and easy. Also Autostakkert - really nice.

Originally Posted by Solar

Nice detail. You should get some great shots when the seeing comes good.
I will look forward to them.
I wonder how that camera would go on the sun?

Sorry for the above - couldnt help it.

Originally Posted by h0ughy

I will hopefully let you know next week - when the ruddy coastal cloud buggers off

Keep in there David and where is my truck?

Originally Posted by ourkind

Nice photo Allan I think that came out really well

Thanks Carlos for the comments. The jpeg actually lost a lot of subtle detail in conversion from the Tif file. A bit disappointing a cant upload Tifs.

[h0ughy (David)]

truck was at grafton and has now floated out to sea via maclean

[h0ughy (David)]

genuine question - what speed and resolution did you have this set at?

[allan gould]

Originally Posted by h0ughy

genuine question - what speed and resolution did you have this set at?

Genuine answer - resolution was set at 640x480 and on max fps which if memory serves me correctly was at approx 64fps.
Stacked 20% of the frames (662); exposure 0.006506 sec; brightness=6; gamma =37 and gain=39.
Sorry David it would have helped others if I'd have included that data.

[allan gould]

I've had a look at other videos of Jupiter and their final images after processing and I would have rated the seeing at 3/10 on the night as the planet was jittering constantly like cold water on a hot skillette. I long for one of those Avis where the changes in atmosphere are slow and the planet just moves slowly about a mean, then the detail would pop. I think my best bet will be with Saturn as it will be higher in the sky

[Quark (Trevor)]

A promising result Alan.

Cheers
Trevor

[EricB (Eric)]

Well done Allan. You and I, new owners of the ASI 120MM (and probably others), are suffering from the same problem. We haven't yet been able to test the full potential of the camera due to bad seeing. It's frustrating. Your image looks very promising as there is quite a lot of details in it.

[allan gould]

Originally Posted by Quark

A promising result Alan.

Cheers
Trevor

Thanks for the comment Trevor much appreciated

Originally Posted by EricB

Well done Allan. You and I, new owners of the ASI 120MM (and probably others), are suffering from the same problem. We haven't yet been able to test the full potential of the camera due to bad seeing. It's frustrating. Your image looks very promising as there is quite a lot of details in it.

Eric all I can hope is that we all get some clear skies soon, but they are a good guider and imager so far as I can tell.

[ReaPerMan (Paul)]

Nice Image Allan, It's a great little camera, I hope you get some good weather soon.

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Nice to see you taking advantage of those sucker holes.
The seeing has been shyte for ages.
But sometimes, if you just continually keep shooting, you'll catch a minute of two of pretty good seeing.
Looks like tonight may be clearish.

[allan gould]

JJJ
going to set up tonight and see what I can get. Who knows I might get lucky!
Allan