12th August Jupiter/Io transit

[Lester]

Hi all,

captured Jupiter with Io transit in progress tonight in 5/10 conditions using 2x barlow. As Io transits at twice the speed of Jupiters rotational speed this image is only from a 50 second avi and still Io is elongated slightly.

Will process some more in the next few days.

[iceman (Mike)]

Nice work Lester, you've come a long way in your processing.

[Dennis]

Lester that is a lovely capture of this event. Starry Night “informed” me of this upcoming transit but when I got the ‘scope out, the seeing was quite poor so didn’t even bother attempting to record any avi’s. Thanks for posting this fine image!

Cheers

Dennis

[matt]

Well done, Lester. That's a nice image.

Nice processing, as has been said.

[Lester]

Thanks Mike, Dennis and Matt for your comments.

Here is another avi captured in slightly better conditions.

[iceman (Mike)]

Even better, Io looks great! Excellent colours and resolution.

[Matty P (Matt)]

Great results Lester, lovely detail and nicely processed.

Very well done.

[beren]

Fantastic images Lester well done congrats

[AlexN]

gotta love that image scale with a 2x Fine details in the second shot are amazing, very true coloring too.

Great work Anthony.

Alex.

[Lester]

Thanks for your comments, Mike, Matt, Stuart and Alex.

All the best.

[Lester]

Here is another avi processed, and showing the finer detail a bit better.

[netwolf]

Wow these are fantastic images Lester, i assume these are with the colling modification in use. You captured a lot of fine detail in the equatorial region there.

[iceman (Mike)]

Great stuff Lester!

[AlexN]

The detail between the seb and the stz are awesome.... all the fine little folds of storm activity..

Very very well done.

[Lester]

Thanks Fahim, Mike and Alex.

The primary was cooled to ambient, from memory 7.8 degrees. Turned off the cooling and the next time I looked at the temperature gauge the primary was 0.4 degrees below ambient.