Jupiter Oct 6 UT

[lepton3 (Ivan)]

I finished my run on SN2009ip at around 330am this morning, and couldn't resist a quick look at Jupiter, even though the jetstream was apparently raging at 140 kts!

The seeing was reasonably stable, but soft, as you'd expect. I could see the G and B channels were pretty smeared once I had processed the video. Still, the final image was better than I expected.

C11, TV 3x Barlow, DBK21AU618.AS, 1800 of 7200 frames stacked with AS!2

-Ivan

[Shiraz (Ray)]

that is good Ivan - definitely worth the effort. regards ray

[asimov (John)]

Nice one Ivan but a pity about that jet. In situations like this, reckon it pays to drop back to 2X with the C11 as it still gives a respectable sized image of Jupiter right now. Helps with the seeing too of course, & is my main point here.

[lepton3 (Ivan)]

Originally Posted by Shiraz

that is good Ivan - definitely worth the effort. regards ray

Thanks Ray.

Originally Posted by asimov

Nice one Ivan but a pity about that jet. In situations like this, reckon it pays to drop back to 2X with the C11 as it still gives a respectable sized image of Jupiter right now. Helps with the seeing too of course, & is my main point here.

Thanks Asimov, I did grab a video with a 2.5x Powermate, and while the stack seemed to be less noisy than the 3x ones, there was less detail visible. I think 2.5x was not sufficiently different from 3x in this case.

Anyhow, fwiw here is the 2.5x Powermate version. I think the conclusion is there's really no substitute for seeing.

-Ivan

[Clayton]

Nice work Ivan

[Quark (Trevor)]

Still worth the effort Ivan.

Regards
Trevor

[lepton3 (Ivan)]

Originally Posted by Clayton

Nice work Ivan

Thanks Rob.

Originally Posted by Quark

Still worth the effort Ivan.

Regards
Trevor

For sure, Trevor.

-Ivan