Jupiter and Ganymede Oct 9

[Shiraz (Ray)]

Seeing was much better than it has been - not as good as the jetstream predictions suggested, but worth persevering with. The Jupiter signal was quite good in R, but there was no fine detail in G and B, so the image is a bit soft and noisy, even for an 8 inch aperture. At some stage, will up the image scale to see if the optics can produce more detail - if the jetstream ever calms down.

However, Ganymede made up for any Jupiter limitations. A super-resolution stack using only red data shows convincing surface structure, something I have not been able to record before.

thanks for looking

[Quark (Trevor)]

Well done Ray and congrats on your Ganymede image, a most creditable effort indeed.

Regards
Trevor

[mswhin63 (Malcolm)]

Great stuff, nice to get a round moon for the image.

[Shiraz (Ray)]

Originally Posted by Quark

Well done Ray and congrats on your Ganymede image, a most creditable effort indeed.

Thanks very much Trevor

Originally Posted by mswhin63

Great stuff, nice to get a round moon for the image.

Thanks Malcolm,

Yeah you could have "knocked me down wiv arf a brick" when the Ganymede image appeared - a) it is round! b) it has surface detail!
Regards Ray

[asimov (John)]

Pretty good image considering the conditions down south of late Ray!

Good going with Ganymede too

[Shiraz (Ray)]

Thanks John. Yes, using a smaller scope, everything needs to be just right to get passable images - and this year the jetstream has been pretty bad.
regards Ray

[michaellxv (Michael)]

Nice one Ray.

[Shiraz (Ray)]

Thanks Michael
regards Ray

[Lester]

Very nice detailed image Ray, thanks for the view. All the best for more.

[Matt Wastell (Matt)]

Well captured!

[Shiraz (Ray)]

Hi Lester - thanks for your comments.

Hi Matt, thanks for your comment.

regards Ray