Saturn & Jupiter June 1st 2011

[Quark (Trevor)]

Hi All,

Imaged Saturn last night in fair to reasonable seeing, have posted 1 RGB & 807nm IR data set. There were no bright spots within the storm in this region.

Imaged Jupiter this morning (still June 1st regarding the UTC date), the seeing was quite reasonable for this close to the horizon, my first data set was at an alt of only 23 degrees with the final data set at 33 degrees in broard daylight with the Sun about to rise over the horizon.

Have attached 2 RGB & 807nm IR data sets plus links to animations of all 4 RGB & IR data sets.

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/uploads...JupRGBanim.gif

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/uploads/20110601JupIRanim.gif

Thanks for looking.
Regards
Trevor

[Derek Klepp]

Trevor what is that on the rings lower right ? Only in the RGB shot .
Derek

[von Tom (Tom)]

Love the Jupiter shots Trevor, thanks for showing them.

[lcd1080 (Peter)]

I love the subtle transition from light yellow to orange, green and finally blue in your image of the Northern hemisphere of Saturn (with south being up); have you been able to capture the Encke division? That seems to be rather difficult to accomplish.

[Quark (Trevor)]

Originally Posted by Derek Klepp

Trevor what is that on the rings lower right ? Only in the RGB shot .
Derek

Hi Derek, I suspect it is an artifact from the mulit point stacking.

Originally Posted by von Tom

Love the Jupiter shots Trevor, thanks for showing them.

Thanks Tom.

[Quark (Trevor)]

Originally Posted by lcd1080

I love the subtle transition from light yellow to orange, green and finally blue in your image of the Northern hemisphere of Saturn (with south being up); have you been able to capture the Encke division? That seems to be rather difficult to accomplish.

Thanks Peter, the Enke gap requires very good seeing to image and I have captured it a few times this apparition. Have attached an image in good seeing from Feb 24th.

[Troy]

Nice images Trevor. Jupiter looks like a hard target at the moment

[icytailmark (Mark)]

very nice work for jupiter trevor considering how low it is.

[John Hothersall]

Jupiter is really tough especially with rgb so great start you've made.

John.

[Quark (Trevor)]

Originally Posted by Troy

Nice images Trevor. Jupiter looks like a hard target at the moment

Thanks Troy, yep, old Jup is still pretty low to the horizon at dawn but it is still worth the effort to try and capture a record of the changes to the SEB and new structure in the region of the GRS.

Originally Posted by icytailmark

very nice work for jupiter trevor considering how low it is.

Thanks Mark, I was rather pleased with the result for this alt.

Originally Posted by John Hothersall

Jupiter is really tough especially with rgb so great start you've made.

John.

Thanks John, it is shaping up to be a very interesting Jupiter season.

[samilag (Giuseppe)]

Thank you Trevor for this very nice pictures, in particualr Jupiter's images very high quality considering the the horizon position.


Giuseppe

[Quark (Trevor)]

Originally Posted by samilag

Thank you Trevor for this very nice pictures, in particualr Jupiter's images very high quality considering the the horizon position.


Giuseppe

Thanks very much Giuseppe, I am sure we all look forward to imaging Jup at higher alts over the coming months.

[Shiraz (Ray)]

Pretty impressive early Jupiter Trevor. regards Ray

[Clayton]

Nice stuff Trevor