Jupiter in perfect seeing, August 30

[michaellxv (Michael)]

Wow what a stunning image. And yesterdays was pretty good too

Definitely the work of a master craftsman.

[troypiggo (Troy)]

Absolutely incredible. There's nothing I can say that adds to that already said here by others far more experienced than I.

[Virgs]

We are fortunate to have you share this masterpiece with us...

[Octane (Humayun)]

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[circumpolar (Matt)]

Thats fantastic!
Must be the best I've seen.
Well done.

[Logieberra (Logan)]

Well done Anthony

A fitting reward for your patience and contribution to this hobby.

Logan.

[allan gould]

Just come across this thread and I was just mesmerise by the detail in your image.
Not only was the image extraordinary but so is your perserverance to obtain the best position, camera, seeing etc.
Ill wait with baited breath to see what you can deliver with a 16" mirror.

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Ok, here is a short segment of video from August 30, although it's not from the processed image at the start of this thread...actually I think this video segment is from a better capture run :-)

There are two versions to choose from, low and high resolution. The low res is about 5Mb and the highres about 15Mb. Each video runs for about 10 or 15 seconds...

I've chosen the settings to preserve as much of the detail as possible, although the low res version is clearly a big degraded. Othewise these look pretty much exactly as I saw it. You can also see the image move around as the tracking software tries to combat the movement from the light breeze.

This video should play back fro you at 60fps. This is pretty important for you to see the video as it should be.

Let me know if these don't work, or look wrong. Here's the directory with both videos:

http://www.acquerra.com.au/astro/gal...100830-174829/


cheers, Bird

[Quark (Trevor)]

That sure is a pretty impressive B channel Bird, I had no problems playing the large version, great stuff.

Regards
Trevor

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Thanks Trev, I create these under Linux, so it's good to see they play back under Windows ok.

cheers, Bird

[Paul Haese]

That is one nice blue channel. I have been getting less than that for the red channel. Blue is always the indicator for how good the seeing really is on any given occassion.

[Troy]

The detail is excellent in the raw video. Sent some of that seeing east

[Clayton]

Congratulations. Hard work paying off.

[veejo]

what scope and other set up details ?

[batema (Mark)]

A simple question. Did you have some kind of barlow or teleview in the imaging train as well?

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

veejo and batema... the basic scope is an f/5 14.5" newtonian, fl of 1.8m. I add a 5x powermate - working at 5.5x- for effective 10m fl.

The camera has a pixel size of 5.6 microns, works well on Jupiter - as you can see in the video grab above it takes up most of the available 480 pixel height on the ccd.

cheers, Bird

[RobF (Rob)]

Wow, now if that's perfect seeing I understand what the fuss is about! So glad the trek for clear calm air has paid off so well Anthony!

[malp (Malcolm)]

Just seen this image on spaceweather.com, a real stunner with incredible detail. Seeing conditions I can only dream of, and beautifully processed, well done.

[COSMOPARADISE (Nick)]

amazing image Anthony, is this the one in the July BBC Sky at Night program?

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Thanks guys, yes I think this is the image that they used - I won't know until my copy of the program arrives in the mail :-)

ps here's an image from about 10 minutes later than the original, I think this is a bit better :-) Also included here are the individual channels and a closeup of the GRS.

cheers, Bird