My best Jupiter ever + animation!!

[iceman (Mike)]

Hi all

I had an amazing morning on the 15th March (local time), with the seeing fairly consistent across the whole session at about 8.5/10. Io and it's shadow were in transit.

I captured 13 avi's over about 1.5 hours. 3 of the best images from the start, middle and end of the session are attached, and I also created an animation which you can download here (1.2meg gif):

Jupiter + Io Transit Animation

These are my best images of Jupiter ever, and I'm naturally very pleased with the result

Scope and camera: 12" newt on EQ6, DMK21AF04 + 5x powermate. Approx 450 frames from each channel were stacked. Processing in Registax, AstraImage and Photoshop.

Thanks for looking. Comments/questions are welcome.

[netwolf]

Wow Mike those are amazing shots, your new setup is producing the results you wanted.

[Dennis]

Hi Mike

That is a fantastic animation. I love the 3-D look of Io as he traverses the giant’s planetary disc and pops out at the end. The change in profile of Io’s shadow due to projection onto the (almost) spherical surface of Jupiter is quite amazing to watch as well.

I’m sure it took a lot of hard work, in particular the processing, but it was well worth the time and energy invested.

Cheers

Dennis

[h0ughy (David)]

WOW, and he did that with a box brownie?? LOL A fantastic result for all that hard effort Mike!

[want a be]

Looking at images that are this good is how I choose my screen name of Want a Be...Because I want to be capturing photo's as good as this...Very,Very nice....

[RB (Andrew)]

I'm mesmerised, I can't believe my eyes........

[ving (David)]

eh,... its ok i guess....

just kidding

[JohnH]

Originally Posted by iceman

These are my best images of Jupiter ever, and I'm naturally very pleased with the result

Your best = world class mate, look forward to seeing them on APOD...

Mike, this forum is proud of you and what you have done with this site, the star parties and with your images. Inspirational, thank you (and your family).

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Mikey, Mikey, Mikey! What can I say.

WOW!!!!

Rightly pleased you should be young Skywalker.

[iceman (Mike)]

Thanks guys for your feedback.

Originally Posted by JohnH

Your best = world class mate, look forward to seeing them on APOD...

Mike, this forum is proud of you and what you have done with this site, the star parties and with your images. Inspirational, thank you (and your family).

Thanks for your nice words, John. Funny you should mention APOD - I hope they choose to use it (I have submitted it). Interestingly, it's been exactly (well, close enough) 1 year to the day since I was featured on APOD with a Jupiter image last year.

It's nice to look back on that image and animation and see how far my imaging has come.

[John K]

Well done Mike, that has to be the most incredibly detailed animation I have ever seen!

[davidpretorius]

just look at IO and how it has not been overprocessed, top stuff mike....the animation reminds me of damians from last year

[DavidH]

Lovely stuff Mike. Fascinating to see Io's shadow elongate as it goes around the edge of the disc.

David.

[gbeal]

Great shot(s) Mike, well done. Great gear, persistance, and decent seeing, all coming together.
Congrats.
Gary

[sheeny (Al)]

Excellent work Mike!

Al.

[iceman (Mike)]

Thanks guys, appreciate your comments.

[robin]

Very nice animation Mike. You can almost reach out & touch it. Good stuff

[Deeno]

Comments- Bloody amazing
- Must have an abundance of patience
Questions- how the hell do you do that?

[richardo (Rich)]

Simply stunning Mike...
the AVI is outstanding almost like you were geo stationary at a Lagrange point on a interplanetary shuttle craft taking these sets of images.

Awesome

Thanks for sharing
Cheers
Rich

[leon]

Hey Mike where do you hide Hubble, fantastic images.

Leon