Jupiter from Murrumbateman, June 23

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #1 24-06-2007, 01:52 PM

Jupiter really turned it on last night - for about half an hour around 10.30pm the seeing was as close to 10 as I can ever remember.

Still processing (and landscaping, and unpacking boxes etc) but here's the red channel from one of these runs. Colour image coming later.

regards, Bird

edit: Also added the final colour version

Astroman (Andrew Wall) · #2 24-06-2007, 02:16 PM

I am gonna say it again, simply beautiful.

matt · #3 24-06-2007, 02:29 PM

Great stuff, Anthony

davidpretorius · #4 24-06-2007, 02:38 PM

that is the biggest ganymede i have ever seen!

we have a 9th planet again!.

LT_Ng · #5 24-06-2007, 03:47 PM

Hi Bird,

Speechless to your recent Jupiter images, smooth, fine and Hubble-like details on the ball surface.

Well done.

LT

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #6 24-06-2007, 06:05 PM

First colour image from last night...

as you can imagine I'm pretty happy with this :-)

Bird

ps this has been superceded by the colour version in the original post.

LT_Ng · #7 24-06-2007, 06:11 PM

Hi Bird,

Love your processing in this way very much. IMHO, that is the best one up to now.

LT

iceman (Mike) · #8 24-06-2007, 06:43 PM

What a brilliant image and huge scale.

Were the moons added in composite later? I imagine the image scale of the original capture must've taken up most of the 640x480 FOV.

I think that's your best ever, Anthony. Congrats!

h0ughy (David) · #9 24-06-2007, 07:23 PM

well done

and a hint of envy there from Mike I see

thats a fantastic effort

iceman (Mike) · #10 24-06-2007, 07:25 PM

Envy! I envy everyone with clear skies lately. I haven't imaged since June 1st!!

matt · #11 24-06-2007, 07:26 PM

Man, that's nice

h0ughy (David) · #12 24-06-2007, 07:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by iceman

Envy! I envy everyone with clear skies lately. I haven't imaged since June 1st!!

LOL quite true - not feeling a bit green are we???

Kal (Andrew) · #13 24-06-2007, 07:49 PM

What's next bird? You going to try and resolve details of pluto?

Great image, I love the detail and size of Ganymede in the image

davidpretorius · #14 24-06-2007, 09:11 PM

an awesome image and the best ganymede i have ever seen...........ever!

congrats bird! well deserved

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #15 24-06-2007, 10:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by iceman

Were the moons added in composite later? I imagine the image scale of the original capture must've taken up most of the 640x480 FOV.

I think that's your best ever, Anthony. Congrats!

No Mike, I plan to reprocess the moons later - this is just the full frame 640x480, resampled 150%. Io is a bit distorted by motion, but Ganymede is ok, probably cause it moves a bit slower.

I used a 2-point align on Jupiter, and the moons just came along for the ride :-)

ps I have better data yet to process :-)

regards, Bird

rumples riot · #16 24-06-2007, 10:14 PM

Superb image Anthony. Spectacular detail in the polar regions.

Wanna send the seeing over here? LOL

John K · #17 24-06-2007, 10:51 PM

That's really special. Congrats on a world class image and thanks for sharing with everyone Anthony.

With conditions at your new site like that we can always just have the next astrocamp near you!

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #18 24-06-2007, 11:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by John K

That's really special. Congrats on a world class image and thanks for sharing with everyone Anthony.

With conditions at your new site like that we can always just have the next astrocamp near you!

Funny you should mention that...

I'm toying with the idea of having a "Jupiter Quadrature" get-together at my place, 3 months before opposition next year. At quadrature Jupiter is overhead just before dawn, probably the best time of the year for imaging.

And the nighttime temps are still ok, getting down to single figures but not yet subzero.

This would be mid-April or there abouts.

cheers, Bird

rumples riot · #19 24-06-2007, 11:15 PM

Count me in for that Mate, I know you have invited me before, but I just want to let you know that I am definitely in. Will be coming with the C14 this time.

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #20 24-06-2007, 11:43 PM

Paul, I got the date wrong, should have been mid April :-)

I think DaveP was also interested in coming up for a visit, maybe we can scare up a few more as well.

This would be a low-cost, low profile thing, just a few people staying at my place (or nearby at the Murrumbateman Country Inn, shameless plug).

At lesat this way we get 2 chances for good weather, one in April and one in July :-)

cheers, Bird