Eris

Hi Kon, Thank you for your comments. I hadn't realised I had posted in the wrong forum. Do you know how I get a moderator to move it?

Hello to you all, Attached are the first images I have managed to obtain from the current apparition of Jupiter. All images have the full observation details on them. I hope to try and get more RGB images from 5th and 16th September and will work on them in the near future but they are not (at this time) as clear as the IR images taken. All the best to you all, Rob

Hi Geof, Many thanks for your reply and your example image taken under that jet stream activity. I, like Pete above, would generally give it a miss if the conditions were predicted to be bad unless it had been many weeks since my last observation when I would give it a try. If I have been fortunate to have been out several times in a week I would likely take a "bad jet stream" night as a evening off. You do realise however I may not now be able to relax when conditions are predicted to be bad based on your image just in case I am missing something! :O)

Hi, I thought I would have a crack at your original image and see if I could denoise it a little. I put it through Registaks again and applied some gentle wavelets and then another with a little denoise on channel 1 of the wavelets. Put them both in to Photoshop and blended a little.

Having uploaded a few images from September and the Oct I thought it would be interesting to compare two images taken with the same equipment, same capture software, same settings and RGB filters but taken under very different conditions. The image taken on the 24th September was with the jet stream fully over the UK and all the jet stream forecast sites at the time were displaying it in a strong red colour. The video capture shows the very fast high frequency turbulence present at the time and you can see that most details are blurred and only the larger features are obvious. The image taken on the 10th October was the almost at the other end of the scale with the jet stream well to the east of the UK and we sat in a trough between two peaks of activity. Conditions on this night were so different with just low frequency disturbance allowing the capture software to "grab" more stable frames then was possible on the 24th September. The October images is one of the best I have taken over the years in regard to detail visible. I know we all see the differences these nights can bring at the scope but I thought it interesting to show just what a difference the jet stream can make when imaging this wonderful planet. All the best, Rob

The jet-stream moved out of the way for most of the UK over the 10th October and I managed to obtain my best images of this 2022 season so far. I was really pleased with the level of detail I managed to pick out across all latitudes of the globe in RGB and am currently processing the IR images to see what I can pull out of them, particularly in the 2259 image which has the edge slightly over the 2236 one. The jet-stream has been back over the past few days but lets hope for more nights with it out of the way over the next half of the apparition. Clear skies all. Rob

Managed to get some imaging of Jupiter firmly underway in September. Only a few nights were good enough to get a full set of RGB and retain some detail but IR images were easier to obtain with the conditions that generally prevailed through the month (locally for me anyway). Despite conditions being at most average it was great to actually get out for extended periods of time over multiple days.