Jupiter this morning, 3rd March 2007

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #1 03-03-2007, 02:49 PM

This was the first night of observing from our new (temporary) rental house in south-east Canberra, actually just over the border into NSW in a housing estate called Jerrabomberra.

Seeing was not great, all over the place with some periods of nice seeing (maybe 7/10) and some poor seeing of 3/10.

I've processed one of the images at random, but it came out ok so I'm posting it. I'll post some more images later.

Details:

Scope: http://www.acquerra.com.au/astro/lexx.html

capture: 1 minute each of R,G,B @ 38fps

I've reworked my capture software, now I don't lose any frames cause the hard disk can't keep up - I capture into a ramdisk now and have a separate program that streams that to hard disk. It's made a *big* difference at these high framerates - 38fps @ 640x480x16 = 23Mb/sec sustained write, too much for my poor laptop drive. But if I write into a ramdisk then it's all good.

cheers, Bird

iceman (Mike) · #2 03-03-2007, 08:04 PM

Huge! And look at the detail! Stunning shot Anthony. Hope there's better to come.

Dennis · #3 03-03-2007, 08:54 PM

Terrific image Anthony - great job in capturing and processing.

Cheers

Dennis

matt · #4 03-03-2007, 09:13 PM

Good one, Anthony

Love that image scale!!!!

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #5 03-03-2007, 11:54 PM

Ok, here's another one, probably the best result from the night. I left it at the 150% size I use for processing...

cheers, Bird

davidpretorius · #6 03-03-2007, 11:58 PM

welcome back, that must feel better!!!

love it, is the blue channel slightly out on the right?

davidpretorius · #7 03-03-2007, 11:59 PM

crossed in posting,

holy cow, that 2nd one is a beauty!!! woo hoo!

RB (Andrew) · #8 04-03-2007, 12:02 AM

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Originally Posted by bird

Ok, here's another one, probably the best result from the night. I left it at the 150% size I use for processing...

cheers, Bird

Great result there Anthony, heaps of detail.
I really like it at 150%.

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #9 04-03-2007, 12:22 AM

Thanks, yes the channels are out of alignment cause of the long capture (3 minutes). They're aligned in the centre of the image though.

cheers, Bird

ballaratdragons (Ken) · #10 04-03-2007, 12:48 AM

Wow! Very crisp limb near the poles

Nice work Bird.

iceman (Mike) · #11 04-03-2007, 05:14 AM

That's brilliant! That second one is stunning. Awesome work. Time to strut, eh?

davidpretorius · #12 04-03-2007, 08:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by iceman

Time to strut, eh?

watch the cold canberra nights if ya gonna make it a nude one!

that 2nd is worthy of a lap around parliament house!!