Jovian action Feb 26th

[Space Cowboy]

This is just a tiny segment of a 5 hour imaging feast from last night. Alas seeing was not great but I should in time (possibly 6 months!) have a animation covering the 5 hours. Started at 19.22 and finished 00.18 ut.

Quick animation covering 5 mins of Callisto & Europa occulation :

Here is a 4 moons shot :

[si@nite]

Great work Stuart very well captured indeed!

[Ags]

4 moon shot is excellent :-)

[U Cyg]

Lovely stuff Stuart, nice animation.

Seeing wasn't great here either so I packed in at 22:30.

Angie

[Virgoman]

Great work Stuart. I love these animations and that one shows the occultation beautifully. You certainly had a good night! The seeing is the pain of course - I don`t know what it was like here as I was unable to get out of the starting blocks last night. There was though a lot of celestial twinkling going on - so probably pants!

Best regards,

Ralph

[Pete Presland]

Very nice. I watched this event myself and it was fascinating to see the solar system in action in real time, events happen so quickly.

[Space Cowboy]

Thanks guys! Wish I could figure a way of batch processing the stacked TIFF files in Registax for wavelets rather than doing every one individually. Would save a lot of time.

[SnakeyJ]

Love the four moon shot Stuart, nicely processed on all. The animation is great to ;-)

[Nick Smith]

Nice work Stuart.  Look forward to the animation (when it arrives)

[DrRobin]

Great animation and four moon shot Stuart.  It is a real shame about the seeing, the whole 5 hours could have been really spectacular.

Robin

[Space Cowboy]

Thanks Ralph, Nick & Robin! Getting there slowly. The field rotation over 5 hours is pretty dramatic! Still some gaps to fill in but its about 80% done :

Hmmm....it appears the gif animation is too large to play on here.

[theo]

Nice work Stuart. Shame about the seeing but it's been the norm for most of this apparition unfortunately. Look forward to seeing the full 5 hrs animation.

Pete

[Space Cowboy]

Thanks Pete I was just glad to get 5 hours of clear sky lol. Animation is 90% complete just a few avis to process where there are gaps. Seeing went terrible at one point when Io was in Callisto's shadow which was annoying!

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Lovely results; great animation

[Space Cowboy]

Thanks Michael! Just looked at winjupos and if its clear Wednesday night I can capture the other 5 hours to make a full rotation starting from 19.30 ut!

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Thanks Michael! Just looked at winjupos and if its clear Wednesday night I can capture the other 5 hours to make a full rotation starting from 19.30 ut!

Fingers crossed for that

[SnakeyJ]

Thanks Michael! Just looked at winjupos and if its clear Wednesday night I can capture the other 5 hours to make a full rotation starting from 19.30 ut!

Hope you get the conditions for this Stuart - good luck