22-4-06 Good night for Jovian Followers - Page 2

davidpretorius · #21 22-04-2006, 11:05 PM

nope, watched eruopa start thru the 5mm supervixen, swapped it to the camera and everything started to come from the SW. temps dropped and clouds moved in. good night all!

[1ponders] (Paul) · #22 22-04-2006, 11:32 PM

Yep, I got six bowls of jelly between the gaps.

matt · #23 23-04-2006, 12:10 AM

Yep. No change. Clear sky but crap seeing. Captured a few avi's just for the hell of it. Not expecting much. Will post soon.

asimov (John) · #24 23-04-2006, 12:57 AM

Yeah, the one I took with the extension tube I deleted. 2 more to go.

iceman (Mike) · #25 23-04-2006, 06:50 AM

I was out looking last night.. through the 7mm Pentax earlier in the evening (between 9-10pm) the view was great, stunning even.

At 10pm when the transits started, I tried swapping to the 4.7mm and the image just wasn't holding up at 250x, so I didn't bother getting the laptop out. As the night got later (11pm+), the seeing got even worse, so my judgement to "not bother" was justified.

The best views were with the 7mm Pentax at around 10pm just as the shadow transit started, and for the first 20 minutes or so of it. It was a very pleasing view.

I tried to spot Red Jr later on, but the seeing had deteriorated so badly that even with the 7mm at 180x it was mush and I could barely even make out the GRS anymore.

Robby · #26 23-04-2006, 09:04 AM

Ditto the seeing here. Although Jupiter was quite low during the transit times.
I imaged but I doubt I'll get anything worth posting.
Cheers

[1ponders] (Paul) · #27 23-04-2006, 09:09 AM

If anyone has an avi of the time of transit I'd like to get a copy for a project I'm working on. I would also need the time (to the minute) that the avi was done.

Actually I don't need the avie just the finished bmp or jpg.

Cheers