Jupiter + Ganymede Animation - 12th May 2009

[iceman (Mike)]

On the morning of the 12th May, I had some very good seeing - the best I’ve had all year, and I was able to record some images of Jupiter and Ganymede in very good conditions, allowing surface details (albedo features) to be seen on Ganymede - one of the Galilean Moons of Jupiter, 750 million kilometres away!

I’ve created an animation of the best frames from the morning session - click the link below to view the animated gif.

Jupiter + Ganymede Animation (750k gif)

More info:
Jupiter and Ganymede Animation, 12th May 2009

The best or most interesting frames from the session are attached.

Thanks for looking.

[Daniel Beringer]

Really nice images, sharp with detail on the Moon, excellent!

[Quark (Trevor)]

Nice job Mike,
Looks great, the regions of differing albedo on Ganymede are a highlight. Obviously the seeing improved over the duration of these captures.

Whats going on in the animation in the gap between Jupiter and Ganymede, did you do a separate RGB alignment just for Ganymede, as there seems to be a vertical edge in there?

Hopefully this is the start of a period of better seeing for Jupiter.

Top stuff
Regards
Trevor

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Bring on more good seeing!

I don't know how you do this and then go off to work... I head back upstairs for a couple of hours sleep after finishing before crawling back down to my desk...

cheers, Bird

[iceman (Mike)]

Originally Posted by Frontieroptics

Really nice images, sharp with detail on the Moon, excellent!

Thanks Daniel, nice to hear from you!

Originally Posted by Quark

Nice job Mike,
Looks great, the regions of differing albedo on Ganymede are a highlight. Obviously the seeing improved over the duration of these captures.

Whats going on in the animation in the gap between Jupiter and Ganymede, did you do a separate RGB alignment just for Ganymede, as there seems to be a vertical edge in there?

Hopefully this is the start of a period of better seeing for Jupiter.

Top stuff
Regards
Trevor

Thanks Trevor.
Regarding the gap - yes, I align on Ganymede in a separate run through Registax and then recombine with the Jupiter image in Photoshop. The vertical edge must be where I didn't set the background levels to 0 in all frames!
I'll see if I can fix it up.

Originally Posted by bird

Bring on more good seeing!

I don't know how you do this and then go off to work... I head back upstairs for a couple of hours sleep after finishing before crawling back down to my desk...

cheers, Bird

I don't know either, it's catching up on me this afternoon. 2 mornings in a row of getting up at 3:30am and then heading off to work after imaging Jupiter. And it's predicted to be clear all week!

This is about the time when I start wishing for it to get cloudy

If the seeing continues to improve, i'll deal with it

Cheers guys.

[Bassnut (Fred)]

Lovely animation mike, atmospheric with the moon whizzing round.

[Lester]

Very nice images and animation Mike.

Would like to be a fly on the wall and see how you do all this. It takes me long enough to do a few coloured avis, let alone doing RGB in each avi, plus the animation.

[Deeno]

Pretty cool Mike!

Good to see you making the most of some reasonable seeing

[Alchemy (Clive)]

nice animation, the detail on ganymede is consistent, well done.

i just sold all my planetary gear ( filters, wheel, powermate ), at least i can come and have a squiz at your stuff.

cheers clive.