DMK Jupiter and Io shadow transit - 1654UTC - Canberra

[matt]

Really starting to get the hang of this DMK camera.

Seeing was OK. Perhaps 6/10.

9.25, 3x TV barlow

Single point alignment in Registax 4.

Cheers

[Dennis]

Very nice Matt - you've got to be happy with that one. Terrific amount of detail visible and the Galilean moon is the icing on the cake eh!

Cheers

Dennis

[iceman (Mike)]

Nice one Matt, I hope you're still out in it!

[davidpretorius]

lovely stuff.......clouds down here stopped me from this lovely aspect, great that you have captured it....well done

as i alluded to in the saturn thread, i have had a fairly large drop in brightness once the filters are in. I am guessing 25 - 30%%

what frames per second are you capturing at the moment?

it may be worth while making sure that you have enough up your sleeve so to speak in terms of the histogram once the filters are attached.

[matt]

Thanks guys

Dave. Was capturing at 30fps. The gain was set around 840, so I still had a little up my sleeve.

From memory, the brightness was only about half way.

Mike. I pulled the pin shortly after 4am

[matt]

This one's had slightly harder wavelets

[iceman (Mike)]

That's an excellent image Matt! Why did you stop at 4am? Did you capture any colour with the ToUcam?

[matt]

I was knackered, Mike... after three consecutive 2-30am rises in a row and the last 2 days being in full-day training workshops.

I know. What a wimp!!!

And to be honest, I didn't think the seeing looked particularly awesome at 4am. Good, but nothing outstanding.

I'd already captured 16 AVIs and captured plenty of the transit.

But i was surprised by how good the data was when I started processing.

A bit of a lesson for me there.

Don't tell me the seeing improved even more as the morning wore on?

What really sticks in my claw is that I was planning on driving out to Murrumbateman to join bird at his new property, but decided around 2.45am it wasn't looking good enough to go to that degree of effort!

Hmmmmmmmm. Next time I'll just jump in the car, even if it's raining!

[iceman (Mike)]

I don't know if it got better, but it was certainly consistent(ly good) for the 2 hours I was out there (4am-6am).

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Matt, hate to tell you, but the seeing improved dramatically after about 4.30am until 5.30am - had the best seeing I've ever experienced.... too late for the shadow transit but I got an awful lot of nice stuff anyway.

I'm sure you really wanted to hear that :-(

Nice images btw!

cheers, Bird

[matt]

[davidpretorius]

Originally Posted by matt

Don't tell me the seeing improved even more as the morning wore on?

dont worry, noone would be that cruel!

[matt]

This is what you get for being a no-show, DP

[beren]

fine image Matt , i know what you mean with the early rises I was up 3:00 am all last week for Jup just cant back it up this week

[spearo (Frank)]

Nice Matt
Like the one with harder wavelets
very sharp
cheers
frank