Jupiter 2nd December

[Clayton]

Long story but I only managed one tonight
Now it's past my bed time

[Allan_L (Allan)]

Nice shot Rob

How different is Jupiter now from the image in your Avitar !

Thanks for sharing.

Al

[lepton3 (Ivan)]

Nice image Rob. What time was it taken? I gave up at around 2300, couldn't get anywhere near that amount of detail.

-Ivan

[Clayton]

Originally Posted by Allan_L

Nice shot Rob

How different is Jupiter now from the image in your Avitar !

Thanks for sharing.

Al

Thanks Allan,
I remember a time (not so long ago) when I thought that the only thing on Jupiter to see was the GRS

[Clayton]

Originally Posted by lepton3

Nice image Rob. What time was it taken? I gave up at around 2300, couldn't get anywhere near that amount of detail.

-Ivan

You're going to hate this Ivan, but it was about 11pm

Still I think the seeing around here is quite affected by local factors. I have a friend at Sellicks Beach who had a rotten night. I am at West Croydon, where it was bad when I started early in the night, but slowly improved as the night wore on

[Troy]

Very good, well done Rob

[Shiraz (Ray)]

nice one Rob. Io stands out well. Regards Ray

[Clayton]

Originally Posted by Shiraz

nice one Rob. Io stands out well. Regards Ray

Thanks Ray,
I thought it was just another one of those white eddies

[von Tom (Tom)]

Very nice Rob - I can see Io clearly too

Tom

[Clayton]

Originally Posted by von Tom

Very nice Rob - I can see Io clearly too

Tom

Thanks Tom

[Quark (Trevor)]

A most creditable result Rob, a top all-round effort.

It was a nice night out here as well. I had an observing night out of town on a claypan, had about 30 people turn up and Jupiter looked excellent, the barge in the NEB really stood out.

Well done.
Regards
Trevor

[astronobob (Bob)]

Really facinating capture, Dig all the storms off the GRS, Splendid detail and Top processing etc , ,

[Clayton]

Originally Posted by astronobob

Really facinating capture, Dig all the storms off the GRS, Splendid detail and Top processing etc , ,

Thanks Bob. I was also interested in what was happening in that region. But pure luck to catch it, as there hasn't been any seeing above awful since.

[Clayton]

Originally Posted by Quark

A most creditable result Rob, a top all-round effort.

It was a nice night out here as well. I had an observing night out of town on a claypan, had about 30 people turn up and Jupiter looked excellent, the barge in the NEB really stood out.

Well done.
Regards
Trevor

Thanks Trevor
How often do you have your "public nights" ?

[michaellxv (Michael)]

Nice image Rob. What was the wind like over your way?

[Clayton]

Originally Posted by michaellxv

Nice image Rob. What was the wind like over your way?

Thanks Michael
The wind was not too bad but some gusts were moving the scope quite a lot.

[Quark (Trevor)]

Originally Posted by Clayton

Thanks Trevor
How often do you have your "public nights" ?

Over the last 4 years I have really been immersed in my planetary imaging but I still try and organize a few observing nights through the year. It really depends on the level of interest at the time. Our hospital is a training hospital with medical students coming out here from various Universities on rotation and as a body they have shown much interest in astronomy as one of the things they can do while out here at Broken Hill. Last Friday night about 30 of them came out to observe and I have had considerable positive feedback from them. I think it is very important to try and raise the profile of astronomy at the community level and I really enjoy introducing people to astronomy.

[Clayton]

Good stuff Trevor There should be more of it
You do keep yourself busy