The seeing was very good this morning, and stayed good all the way to sunrise for a change.
Here's one of the first processed images, taken at around 6am local time. There are a few later images which may be better but I need some sleep first :-)
Only about 15 minutes later than the previous image, but the seeing was greatly improved. Taken at 6.14am local time. The GRS is just coming into view top right. South is at the top, ie Jupiter is rotating right to left.
ok, you can have your old scope and camera back now...........i am packing up and going home!!
these are fantastic.................i thought i heard a faint voice crying out to the heavans this morning.....just like mars and a certain snake valley trip a few years back
DP this was on the pier, looks like the issue is sorted, likely a dodgy gearbox on the RA was the problem. I've swapped the RA and DEC gearboxes over and the problem went away.
Well, this is what we’ve been waiting for, Jupiter captured by Bird’s eye on the sky! A superb series of images; so early in the season, so close to the horizon yet with so much detail – wow! It bodes well for what is to come.
DP this was on the pier, looks like the issue is sorted, likely a dodgy gearbox on the RA was the problem. I've swapped the RA and DEC gearboxes over and the problem went away.
cheers, Bird
hopefully the gearbox was under warranty
how did you find the tracking process compared to the g11. The whole cooling / tracking / guiding / focussing / filtering / capturing / coffee making / sleep depriving system must now reaaly be smooth.
I am researching the guide scope for my old toucam......just need to stabilize my wonky guide scope.
There is a ccd female socket on my hand controler for the dob driver and i reckon i can use desire / toucam / laptop to guide the scope.
