geoflewis

Lovely Jupiter Craig, the detail is really good and your processing is excellent.

Lovely capture and processing

Excellent capture Pete

Excellent image Craig, just catching up with what everyone's posted the past couple of days

Beatifully done Mariusz

I got home from my weekend down south and have now processed the remainder of the SERs that I capture on the night of 6 October, so here's an annimation showing the full 2.5 hours elapse time. There are some limb artefacts coming through in the annimation, but hopefully it still shows how the seeing improved as Jupiter gained altitude, then fell away a tad after it transitted the meridian and clouds eventually brought my session to an end.

Another good Jup Neil. I missed the last couple of nights do to travelling, but maybe a chance agin tonight, though it's been a pretty tiring weekend driving down and back to Berks/Hants

Excellent Pete 👍

Superb Mars Neil, I’m late catching up with posts today as traveling and only have the small screen of my iPhone with me. I’m definitely going to have to start imaging it soon.

15 hours ago, Kon said:

It's a shame others have not posted any Mars images from the past few days to do a cross check. It's looking promising after midnight tonight.

My friend Niall MacNeill from NSW Australia, posted this on AB about 1 week ago which clearly shows a dust storm in progress…

https://www.astrobin.com/juv2rt/

Excellent images and animation, well done.

Lovely image Lee.

I’ve not seen that square edge artefact previously, but I always avoid setting alignment boxes (APs) near the edge in AS3!, so I wonder if that has something to do with it. I can’t recall who advised me against APs near the planet edge, maybe have been DP, or AW (Bird), but it would be a quick test to run.

Good luck.

36 minutes ago, JeremyS said:

Cracking image Geof 👍🏻

7 minutes ago, Pete Presland said:

Very nicely captured

Thanks Jeremy and Pete.

39 minutes ago, CraigT82 said:

Very nice Geof, you were up later than me I was fast asleep but the time the GRS hit the meridian  

Thanks Craig, yes, it was a long session, but the seeing improved so I stuck with it. I’m very late to the planetary party this year and so with a new camera I wanted to give it a long run out. GRS in transit was also just too temping.

Cheers, Geof

45 minutes ago, neil phillips said:

Excellent Geof. You certainly have found your feet now. Lots of great detail on show. Think that looks better than the good data from you on the 2nd. You got your C14 Singing with the new camera. So now your friends with the camera. Its good, isn't it? Mono what mono

Thanks Neil, you were a good teacher 😉.  Indeed the camera is a game changer. Probably all I need now is a couple of parfocal filters, so that I can take advantage of its IR sensitivity, but that can wait.

Cheers, Geof

Seeing started out iffy, but got better as the evening progressed and Jupiter gained elevation. I captured SERs throughout most of the GRA transit, but here is an image from when GRS had passed the meridian and seeing was at about the best of the night.

The images comprises 3 x 6min SERs quality cropped to best 6000 frames per SER in PIPP, de-rated in Jupos, stacked in AS3!, wavelets sharpened in Registax, with final tweaks in Affinity Photo, hence the final image has 18000 frames.

I have more data to review, but off for my flu jab then heading south to my daughter's for the weekend, so probablywon't get to those until next week, or maybe Sunday evening.

Thanks for looking.

1 minute ago, Kon said:

Thanks Geof.  I prefer the colour one too but it does bring some more of the clouds out. 

You could try to layer the IR as luminence, but you have to be careful as it can really mess with the colours. Another way is to split the R+G out of the RGB and use those as luminence. G is best if sharp enough as it preserves the colours best, but R is likely to be sharper. It's usually the blue channel that ruins the sharpness in the RGB images.

Super images with the CC Neil, pity it was too windy for you to set up the newt. I'm still plowing through my data from last night; I captured 15x6min SERs for most of the GRS transit. I think I must be some kind of masochist....🙄

Nicely done Kon, the IR on Saturn makes all the difference. Looks to have worked pretty well on Jupiter too, but I like the RGB that you got, well done.

21 minutes ago, neil phillips said:

Saw the jet stream forecast. Decided to give it a miss. Will be watching next few days. looks variable. But wind is a problem here with a long see saw of a scope on a EQ5 mount not exactly stable as they come. If i get any indication things improve will message. we should use a alert system or something? 

Yes, it was windy last night which definely adds to the challenge. I saw where the jetsteam was, but that's not 100% reliable forecast for seeing. It's more about whether the airflow is laminar or turbulent, so the edge of the jetsteam is probably always a no, but I've previously had good seeing under a fast jetsream. My mentor, Dave Tyler, told me the only way you'll know is to get out there.....🙄🤔

1 hour ago, DaveS said:

I've installed Stellarium 1.22.3 on my 64 bit office computer, and all my telescope and camera settings are as they were. I think I had to tell it my location, but found it in the list where I had added it to in the previous version.

Thanks Dave, are you running Windows on that machine?

Ok so I am confused - I have no idea what Qt6 environment means, or if it is even relevant to me. If I upgrade to the latest release (and is that 1.22.3, or 0.22.3), does that overwrite my existing version 0.20.3 on Windows x64 laptop and will my settings, occulars, sensors, etc., be preserved, or do I need to do anything specific to preserve them?

Sorry, it's as clear as mud to me which version I should download.

7 hours ago, neil phillips said:

Thanks Geoff even slightly calmer conditions can result in better captures. What we need is another perfect night soon. Fingers crossed

Ain't that the truth, I tried again last night as it was clear as a bell here, but the seeing was terrible. I stuck at it for about 2 hours, but got nothing usable so shut down. I hate nights like that, I would have been better shooting some DSO but Blobby was bright, so no good for LRGB and I don't have my NB filters in the QSI583wsg-5 camera currently. Did you have any success?

14 hours ago, neil phillips said:

Might have a couple more I can add on to this. But i kept it with the captures that were quite sharp. 4 6-minute video de rotation captures. 280.000 frames captured on the 4 captures. Around 51.000 frames stacked into the animation

Gif 

Plus high quality windows player download. 

 

2022-10-02-2242_5-DeRot_pipp_jupiter_lapl8_ap34_pipp.zip 17.77 MB · 7 downloads

Fabulous work Neil, excellent detail, but smooth as silk.

I decided to put 2 images together, annoted for submition to Dr John Rogers, Dir Jupiter Section, BAA. The first shows Io's 1st contact as it commenced its transit, the 2nd as already posted and discussed here.

It's interesting to note that the detail in each is almost the same, despite the second image comprising nearly x7 the data. It just goes to show that very long capture sequences don't really add much in average seeing conditions - something about silk purses and cows ears comes to mind....