Jupiter 4 September 2011

[Paul Haese]

Finally picked up my first image of Jupiter for this apparition. Seeing was very average if not slightly poor. For the most part the video had a flag like wave which indicated the presence of a high jet speed. If that had not been present then I think the seeing would have been quite good.

Despite all this I manage to capture an image with some detail and red spot Junior transiting. Ganymede can also be seeing with some albedo detail.

Not a great start to the season but better than some of the seeing last year. This is my first Jupiter with the Flea3 too. So the image appears a lot smoother than with the Skynyx 2-0.

Tired but happy.

Click here for image

If the image looks a little washed out, then this is because of the amount of work I had to do to get the image looking this good. The data was quite frankly pretty ordinary. Jupiter is only 43 degrees here in Southern Australia, which does not help.

[blackparticle]

A great shot and looking forwards to seeing a less "ordinary" one as well.

[frewi808]

Killer image Paul !

Freddy

[neil phillips]

Well you certainly made the most of the conditions Paul, excellent start.

[AztecastroMcJ]

Yep great start Paul

nicely done

James

[theodoros1978]

great shot, i need to practice more on jupiter, its a great planet!