Jupiter from the 16th and 17th

[iceman (Mike)]

The run of terrible seeing continues along the East Coast of Australia, as these Jupiter images were captured last week in less than average seeing on the 16th and 17th of April, 2009.

The first image shows the GRS and the second image shows the NEB outbreak.

Not too much else to report - getting frustrated by the run of horrible conditions. The skies last week were clear for 3-4 days in a row, Jupiter is now over 50° in altitude before sunrise, and yet the air has just been terribly unstable.

And then this week, rain all week so there’s been no chance to do any imaging.

[Lester]

Thats better than my last attempt Mike, hope it improves for you Easterners soon.

Got rain here for the next 4-5 days, so could be a bit quiet here.

[Quark (Trevor)]

It is a shame about the seeing Mike but more power to you for making the effort.

Thus far Lester seems to have been the only one to have imaged Jupiter in good seeing for this apparition, he really has posted some stunner's.

Looking forward to what you can achieve when the seeing does improve.

Cheers
Trevor

[RB (Andrew)]

Yeah, too bad about the conditions Mike , but kudos to you for giving it a go anyway.
Colours look great though.

[h0ughy (David)]

the colours do look good and even a murky looking red spot looks good. i am amazed thaqt you got any imaging done whatsoever given this blasted cloud and showers we have had for the past two weeks

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Pity about the soup you had to shoot through.
But the bad weather can't last forever.
Hope it clears up sometime soon.

[spacezebra (Petra)]

Im sure that the weather will behave soon. Hang in there Mike.

Cheers Petra d.

[Jay-qu]

Well at least your not in victoria - the sky clears up for a few days and the department of sustainability decides to back burn half of victoria.. smoke, everywhere. But I guess I shouldnt complain, it is for our own good.

[Spanrz (Brett)]

Originally Posted by Jay-qu

Well at least your not in victoria - the sky clears up for a few days and the department of sustainability decides to back burn half of victoria.. smoke, everywhere. But I guess I shouldnt complain, it is for our own good.

Yeah the smoke stuffs up my viewing. It seems anymore, if there is any dirt/smoke/cloud around me, it spreads the ambient light from the burbs.
It's quite shocking. It never was that bad, but the ambient light from Dandy and Fountain Gate shops drowns anything within 20-30 degrees of the horizon.

I seen Jupiter the other morning and thought "grab the scope for a few minutes", but then I would have been majorly late for work.
It was stunning next to the moon.

I've only had 1-2 really dark sky nights in the last 2-3 months.... Now it's rain.... Oh well, back inside!

[ANDREA MANIERO]

Hello Mike,
your pictures are always good, now in Italy it is impossible to do planetary imaging, for an incoming disturbance that reduces the 3-4/10 seeing a wide Pickering. good luck for future work.

Andrea

[Alchemy (Clive)]

pretty good for only 50 deg altitude, as the season progresses it will get better.

last year you were playing around with cooling of the mirror, did you continue with that?