Jupiter from Murrumbateman, April

[matt]

Very...very good!

[Alchemy (Clive)]

another nice image there bird.

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Well, it's been a while... the low off the nsw coast that's drowning Iceman & co is also pushing lots of moisture across this way, most of it turning into ice haze and fogs overnight...

Anyway, yesterday morning was clear enough to capture some data for a change... and this image is interesting! The white storm that reached the grs a week or so back is still present, it hasn't broken down. In fact it looks like it may be circulating around the edge of the grs.

Io is also visible close to the central meridian near the top of the north equatorial belt.

Fingers crossed for some better weather soon!

cheers, Bird

[netwolf]

These look amazing Anthony, the detail is great. Looks like you are getting some really nice skies down there. Any work out your way for a IT guy? From what i have seen in your pics looks like a good place to live with lots of open spaces.

BTW Which camera were you using for these?

Regards
Fahim

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Originally Posted by netwolf

These look amazing Anthony, the detail is great. Looks like you are getting some really nice skies down there. Any work out your way for a IT guy? From what i have seen in your pics looks like a good place to live with lots of open spaces.

BTW Which camera were you using for these?

Regards
Fahim

Hi Fahim, these are done with the dragonfly2 camera.

cheers, Bird

[iceman (Mike)]

Wow very nice, Anthony. I haven't seen an uncloudy sky for 2 weeks

Of course it cleared up overnight and I was sleeping. I'll be ready for tonight.

[Dennis]

Hi Anthony

That is another amazing Jupiter image, thanks for posting. It is nice to be reminded of what Jove really looks like. I did have a quick visual peek the other night from Brissie, but the seeing was too poor to even bother plugging in the DMK.

Cheers

Dennis

[Lester]

Very nice Anthony, Io stands out nicely along with a number of storm features.

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Thanks guys, ps Fahim there's always work for IT guys in Canberra :-)

regards, Bird

[netwolf]

I have a couple of friends working in Canberra but they travel down from Sydney and stay during the week.
Looks like the D2 is a real winner then.

Regards
Fahim

[iceman (Mike)]

and leave Ericsson? oh that's right, I already did

The D2 looks very tempting.

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

The D2 and DX are both great cameras. I don't (yet) have S800 video cabling from the scope through into the observatory, only S400 so I'm only able to use the DR2 at present.

I'll have to do something soon though, when the grasshopper camera comes out (this month they said) I'll be getting one for eval, and it's S800 like the DX.

cheers, Bird

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

With more bad weather coming I was determined to get something this morning, sadly the conditions were not cooperating and the seeing was again below par, with fog and haze around from 3am till sunrise.

Here's one image that came out ok...

regards, Bird

[Alchemy (Clive)]

nice result there, the really dark spot i presume is a storm..... do you follow the science side of it ? all the various changes etc

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Alchemy, yes the dark red spots are storms, but I really haven't looked into the science too much - I've seen references to a few published papers describing theories about the composition of the atmosphere and how these storms evolve, maybe you'll find some of that online?

cheers, Bird