Jovian snaps with the ASI224MC

[Kokatha man]

Hi SGL'ers - haven't posted much here for quite sometime due to wall-to-wall clouds in South Oz for months literally...but through a chain of unplanned circumstances we ended up out at Sedan in the Murray Mallee 2 nights ago (10th March) where all the forecasts were "gloom, doom & clouds-clouds-clouds"..!

But to cut a long story short a "sucker hole" opened up just long enough to collimate properly & get in exactly 1 hour of imaging...what a pity as the seeing kept creeping higher (despite transparency issues) & when e clouds suddenly slammed the sky shut we were thinking "this might be really something special..."

But if wishes were fishes however...notwithstanding, we still got some decent images - the sky unfortunately remained covered all night after that...& Jove had only just reached peak elevation (49°) & would've stayed at that height for another hour...ah well..!

The 2-frame animation might need clicking on... 

[Space Cowboy]

Very nice images Darryl! I never knew there was cloud in Australia! Who the hell is getting all the clear sky!?!

[Kokatha man]

10 minutes ago, Space Cowboy said:

Very nice images Darryl! I never knew there was cloud in Australia! Who the hell is getting all the clear sky!?!

...some greedy #!**@#..! Thanks Stuart.  

 

[Knighty2112]

Excellent shots. Well done!  Fog for the last two nights here have scuppered any observations of Jupiter where I live in the UK, and before that cloud too for what seems like an eternity! Hoping there's a slight break at some point over the weekend to observe Jupiter again. Fingers crossed!  

[Grotemobile]

That is very very good. A lot of work must have

gone into putting that together. Spot on.

 

Steve.

[laudropb]

Very nice images and presentation.

[knobby]

Excellent Jove ! I might get a chance to try my 224 out one night 

[Virgoman]

A great collection of images Darryl - as usual! Lovely animation and a pleasure to view all....as usual! 

                                               Regards,

                                                             Ralph

[Kokatha man]

Thanks everyone - here's a little animation of the frames that SGL's generous file-size allowance enables me to post here...if it isn't turning you might have to click on it!

[neil phillips]

Quality as always Darryl

[si@nite]

As above Darryl nice work!

[Mick J]

Always quality work Darryl,  the animations run for me without clicking, guess that's the new forum software, a pleasure to look at.

[Kokatha man]

Thanks fellas - SGL has always been very generous with file-sizes for attachments, but I cannot see any provision to edit your post if you make a mistake etc...& why does it always seem to lose my password...one reason I come here less is because I always need to re-enter the darn thing & I need to refer to a piece of paper buried on my desk - probably a good thing to keep me out, some folks might reckon..!  

[Kokatha man]

ps: I can now see the "Edit" button but I'm uncertain if it was on display when I first started this thread...it certainly appears for these quick response posts!

[astroman001]

Lovely images, nice colours. You did well to grab these during the poor wether.

Best wishes

Peter

[Kokatha man]

Thanks Peter - we did well to grab anything at all, nothing but clouds nearly all the time down here these last few months!  

[Pete Presland]

Some excellent detail there.

[Kokatha man]

Thanks Pete!