The Early Bird Catches The ......

[Tim]

...Jupiters!

Had to be up preparing for this one from 2.30am. I have a VERY limited window of opportunity to grab Jupiter, the rising sun is fighting all the time for domination of the sky, and it has to clear a 20 ft fence at the airport to be visible, and THEN it starts ti disappear behind the neighbours house.

I was all set up and ready to take my first avi, and then a load of cloud rolled over. Jupiter was still fairly well ensconced in the murky carp of the atmosphere, so I was glad to be able to pull a little detail out. Tomorrow, skies permitting, the GRS should be visible, hope to capture that.

So here, from the murky depths, is my first Jupiter. Big fella aint he?

Cheers

TJ

[SteelRat]

Mega 8) Pretty low in the sky again though. Won't clear the rooftops to my south I don't reckon

Nice shot TJ

Cheers

Matthew(SR)

By the way, is this SGL's first Jupiter image of the year?

[zhgutas]

Ah.. it's been quite a while since I last saw this guy very nice TJ, and as SR mentioned, not an easy target at this time

Marius

[beamish]

TJ ! OMG ! Well done mate that is just Fantastic !!!Hats off to you for all the hard work and prep .

Karlo

[jgs001]

Nicely done TJ, that's dedication.

[Starflyer]

WOW well done TJ. Great image and kudos for the dedication

Cheers,

Ian

[algol]

All Hail The King!!!!!

thats a cracker that mate can't wait to see him

[strutsinaction]

Very nice! What set up did you use?

[dweller25]

Well done TJ. :hello1:

[LaVey]

nice shot TJ... I'd be interested in your set up also and the settings u used to capture? The colours are very nice, I must try and figure out the best settings for K3.. my version looks very blue http://stargazerslounge.com/index.php/topic,25440.0.html

[Sam]

Great capture TJ - I hope Jupiter gets above the trees at my place!

[DanDare]

Very well done TJ

Haven't seen the big fella for some time now, so hats off to you!

Roy

[Tim]

The mount is my new EQ6, holding a C9.25, running a celestron neximage camera in RAW mode, processed in K3CCD, aligned in Reggie, and processed in CS3.

I tried with a 2x and 3x barlow but the seeing was just too carp.

I also got up this morning at 3.50 to set up again, and literally as soon as I put the camera in the diagonal, the clouds rolled in

I did get some avi footage, just about to process that, it SHOULD have shown the red spot, but the clouds were covering it at the critical time. If there's anything any good i'll post it later.

TJ

[beamish]

Do you feel you can notice a substantial improvement using the EQ6 r

Karloather than the old mount ?

[Tim]

Karlo,

Not for this situation, no, the HEQ5 was extremely accurate with its tracking, and the eq6 is too.

The only reason for upgrading was that I have too much weight to use on the heq5 now, around 15kg of equipment.

Cheers

TJ

[firelady]

Another great image, well done :bounce: