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16 hours ago, Kon said:

Excellent image Harvey. You have pulled some nice details and I like the colour balance. GRS is also showing some structure too.

Thanks Kostas 🙂

I've been going through my data for the night of the 6th, and as I thought, from my location the conditions were slightly better just before the transit.

Here is the result of 4 RGB runs with de-rotation. I have deliberately not pushed the processing too far, in order to keep things as natural as possible.

Hope you like it

Best Wishes

Harvey

Thanks Guys for all of your positive comments. Much appreciated 🙂

Hi Guys

Here's an RGB image of the above shot at around 11.30BST on the 6th. Seeing was fair with the usual milky transparency, making processing challenging. There are 3 RGB runs here combined in Winjupos. The GRS is just on the Eastern limb of the planet

Best Wishes

Harvey

Fantastic job on those Geof! You've really nailed focus too. That C14 is clearly performing well for you. Do you have any cooling issues with it?

Cheers

Harvey

That's lovely! Looks really natural to me. Perfect processing! 😀

Hi Guys

Thanks so much for all of your comments and encouragement

Best Wishes

Harvey

Love that animation Stuart! Very Cool 🙂

9 hours ago, geoflewis said:

That's a stonking good image Harvey and I also like this colour palette. Jupiter is really colourful isn't it, I love to view it at high magnification through an eyepiece and better still though binoviewers with a pair of 19mm panoptics (mag approx x200), though haven't got those out this year yet. It's truly a beautiful object.

Thanks Geof

1 hour ago, Kon said:

Excellent image. Lovely details and I like the colour balance.

Thank you Kon

1 hour ago, Neil_104 said:

For me it's looking a little over-done in terms of the colours and processing, starting to look a little false, but I don't meant to be negative, we each have our own preferences and you've captured some great detail in the clouds. Io has totally knocked it out of the park though - great capture of surface details. It looks like a mini-Mars! 👍

Appreciate your comments Neil. I have 2 laptops, on 1 of them the saturation looks minimal, and on the other, it looks a little overcooked. It was a tough call, as I thought I had calibrated them both. I am also finding that the colours are looking different depending on which program I am looking at them in.

Cheers

Harvey

excellent work Geof!

9 minutes ago, geoflewis said:

Thanks both, I probably also wouldn't image in those conditions, but It's the 1st time I've caught the GRS early in it's transition and the seeing was pretty good, so with Europa also in play, I just kept going. As it's been said before, it's the seeing that really matters for planetary imaging, so good seeing with poor transparency always trumps great transparency in poor seeing. There were a few times when I was ready to pack up, but looking over the observatory wall kept promising another clear patch, so well what can I say, I just kept going.....

 

Of course Geof! I wasn't being critical, I really admire your patience and enthusiasm, and as you say, you never really know if it's gonna get better or not. I look forward to hopefully seeing the Gifs. 

Best

Harvey

Hi Guys

Well, it's a repro of sorts, but with increased data. I did mention to Stuart, - (Space Cowboy), that I had more available data to add to my previous efforts. So here is the result, with double the original data. There are now 10 individual images, that were combined in Winjupos, instead of the initial 5. 

The image has become less noisy due to this, with detail I think that is easier on the eye. Personally, I think I prefer this colour pallette. would be interesting to have your thoughts?

Thanks for looking

Clear Skies!

Harvey

Well done Geof! I admire your patience! I've never bothered attempting to image under those sort of skies before personally😉

13 hours ago, glafnazur said:

Wow that's a fantastic image, so much detail 👍

Thank you 🙂

12 hours ago, Stu1smartcookie said:

Amazing . Io looks incredible ! .. And Jupiter is truly stunning . 

Thank you 🙂

13 hours ago, Space Cowboy said:

As I said the the CN forum this is a fabulous capture Harvey! One of the best UK shots this year for sure.

On this particular image I can see some artifacts on Jupiter, possibly image compression as the text is distorted?

Thanks Stuart. That's interesting. I think I did some minor denoising after posting on CN. That's probably why the text is distorted, - I was just too lazy to write it up again, - LOL. 

This particular image was just 5 no 40 second captures combined in Winjupos. So, I think the artifact you are mentioning is slight edge distortion due to stretching. I did try to remove it using the deringing function in Registax, but couldn't. I do have another 5 captures that I could still combine in Winjupos, but am still working and have been time short. I will get round to doing it soon though.

Best wishes

Harvey

Many thanks Geof 🙂

On 24/10/2023 at 00:28, orion25 said:

Brilliant!

Thanks Reggie 😊

On 21/10/2023 at 12:50, callisto said:

Excellent... Io showing detail 

 

Mark.

Thank you

On 21/10/2023 at 12:53, Kon said:

Excellent image Harvey!

Cheers Kon

22 hours ago, yelsac said:

That is brilliant, love the detail 👍

Thank you 

On 21/10/2023 at 13:15, knobby said:

That's lovely, how long does the 11“ take to reach thermal equilibrium?

It's pretty quick actually, I generally put a fan on at the bottom of the OTA. What makes a huge difference is that I have the whole tube wrapped in silver foil.

Thanks for your comment

Regards

Harvey

Hi Guys

Not posted much on here lately due to losing my account credentials.

I thought I'd share with you an image of Jupiter taken with the 11" Mak under steady seeing/transparency on the night of the 15/16th October. much has been said on here about correct sampling, - my ideal f ratio for sampling is around F15. The live view was that good that I decided to put on a 2.5X TV power-mate  which would give me around F22. I personally have found that I get my best images in good seeing when oversampled. 

I had originally set up for mono imaging, but had the settings wrong on the new camera, so couldn't obtain a frame rate of more than 1.5 fps. I transferred over to the ASI 462 coloured cam at the last minute, so pleased that the session wasn't a disaster!

Regards

Harvey