Jupiter from Karratha, Oct 13

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #1 14-10-2012, 06:44 PM

Hi all, finally I found some seeing worth recording :-) Not good seeing by any means but much better than anything I've had so far this season.

I'm currently in Karratha in NW Western Australia, hopefully I'll get a few more decent nights here in the next couple of weeks before I have to head home again. Even at a latitude of 20S I'm still not clear of the jetstream. It's much stronger and more pervasive than on my last trip here in 2010.

This has been processed on my laptop, so the brightness/contrast/gamma may be off. I'll reprocess it when I'm home again and on a screen I trust :-)

cheers, Bird

Paul Haese · #2 14-10-2012, 07:03 PM

That is still very nice Anthony, great detail and very smooth.

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #3 14-10-2012, 07:28 PM

Thanks Paul. It looks ok on my laptop screen, but Leisa said it looked a bit blue on her laptop at home, I know from past experience that this laptop is not very well calibrated.

cheers, Bird

rogerg (Roger) · #4 14-10-2012, 07:31 PM

Nice.

2:55am - ouch.

Quark (Trevor) · #5 14-10-2012, 07:37 PM

Looking good Bird, looks like the Jet is finally easing, at least for the next week or so.

Cheers
Trevor

Peter Ward · #6 14-10-2012, 07:59 PM

Lovely fine structure....expertly captured.

What scope do you use when you go west?

Matt Wastell (Matt) · #7 14-10-2012, 09:02 PM

Great stuff - the bland feature in the middle is quite interesting - maybe it will become more alive soon?

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #8 14-10-2012, 10:11 PM

Thanks all.

Peter, I'm using the 16" f/4 newt on my G11 mount. Here's a couple of pics...

Larryp (Laurie) · #9 14-10-2012, 10:15 PM

That's a great image!

asimov (John) · #10 15-10-2012, 12:23 AM

Looks good to me Bird. Lovely colour & detail. This a Winjupos version? I've yet to bother with it.

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #11 15-10-2012, 01:14 AM

Hi asi, nope, just a normal ninox -> registax -> astra image process, same as I've used for a few years.

cheers, Bird

iceman (Mike) · #12 15-10-2012, 04:46 AM

Beautiful image Anthony! Really enjoyed this view, lovely and smooth.

Can't wait to see what you get in better seeing.

This is now IOTW.

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #13 15-10-2012, 07:07 AM

Thanks Mike! Good seeing is yet to show it's head anywhere around here, but I'm hopeful...

cheers, Bird

Shiraz (Ray) · #14 15-10-2012, 08:30 AM

That is exceptional. nice to see some fine detail. Regards ray

dvj (John) · #15 15-10-2012, 08:41 AM

When I see work like this, I'm not even going think about Planet imaging. Superb!

Rod771 (Rod) · #16 15-10-2012, 09:12 PM

Wow Bird! That's some heavy duty gear.

Great shot!! One of the best images of Jupiter I've seen.

Gem (Grant) · #17 15-10-2012, 09:19 PM

Wow! Superb!

Irish stargazer (John) · #18 15-10-2012, 10:09 PM

That's awesome Bird.
Can't wait until Jupiter rises a bit earlier in the evening. 2pm is a bit late in the night for me

Clayton · #19 15-10-2012, 10:09 PM

Very very nice

ourkind (Carlos) · #20 16-10-2012, 01:39 AM

Juno eat your heart out!