Jupiter GRS March 13th

[Space Cowboy]

No wobbly seeing but plenty of fuzz last night so the detail does not pop out like it could have done.  Still my best GRS shot this season though.

10" Dob & asi224 + ZWO ADC :

4 mins combined in winjupos (23.16ut) :

[Pete Presland]

Some excellent detail there, especially around the GRS.

[astroman001]

Very nice, shame about the seeing.

Peter

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

That is very nice. I should get a ZWO ADC this week. How are you liking yours?

[Space Cowboy]

Thanks guys! Without doing a proper comparison with and without the ADC in good seeing its hard to say how much difference its making Michael. I am tempted to try without so I can use my 5x powermate :-)

Here is another from slightly earlier (22.54ut) again combining 4 mins in winjupos. Given this one a bit more umph to bring out the detail.

[si@nite]

Some good detail despite the conditions Stuart, must have had very similar seeing to me, steady but weak trans like you say fuzzy!

[laudropb]

Very nice images, especially given the conditions.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

11 hours ago, Space Cowboy said:

Thanks guys! Without doing a proper comparison with and without the ADC in good seeing its hard to say how much difference its making Michael. I am tempted to try without so I can use my 5x powermate :-)

Here is another from slightly earlier (22.54ut) again combining 4 mins in winjupos. Given this one a bit more umph to bring out the detail.

Mine should arrive today. Guess what, so have the clouds

[theo]

Another fine collection of images Stuart even in the fuzz!!

Pete

[PeterCPC]

Very nice - it's been fuzzy here too.

Peter

[Space Cowboy]

Thanks Pete & Peter!

[neil phillips]

The later images are tighter, good tweaking, Some structure inside the GRS

[Space Cowboy]

Thanks Neil!

[Freddie]

Nice work as usual there Stuart. It's nice to see people have finally had some improvement in conditions and there have been a decent number of good shots posted recently. It's such a shame that conditions have been so poor this Jup season. No one has got close to the quality of last years shots from what I remember. I only got one shot that I would call half decent this year and kind of gave up on planetary as it was just pot luck as to whether you'd get poor or really poor conditions once you were set up !!!

Was out doing some DSO last night and noticed Mars at ~2.30am. It's really low so I don't hold out much hope for many decent Mars shots later in the year either. Such a shame. Think you'll really need that ACD on full song when you capture Mars.

[Virgoman]

Two lovely images there Stuart - certainly whirls within the red spot visible. Know what you mean about the fuzziness - was experiencing the very same here. You have came through despite! Concur with what Freddie says re Mars - going to be tricky here I reckon.

 

                                            Best regards,

                                                               Ralph

[Space Cowboy]

Thanks Freddie! I'm not sure about giving up on Jupiter just a week after opposition. As John McEnroe would say......"YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS!" ;-)

Cheers Ralph! Went out again last night and had similar conditions. Frustrating when there is no Jetstream. I think there are thermals coming off the house roof after a sunny day and the air temperature still being low.

Edited March 16, 2016 by Space Cowboy

[Barv]

Very nice Stuart, - you'll get some great stuff with that cam when and if seeing improves!

Harvey

[Tyson M]

Amazing details. 

[Tyson M]

I need to learn WinJupos for longer avis

[Space Cowboy]

Thanks Harvey!

Cheers Tyson, the easiest way to use winjupos is to take consecutive 1-2 minute Avis and then derotate the stacked images rather than derotating a long avi.

[Grotemobile]

I have just found this. Very interesting.http://www.planetary-astronomy-and-imaging.com/en/maximum-video-time-jupiter/

41 minutes ago, Space Cowboy said:

Thanks Harvey!

Cheers Tyson, the easiest way to use winjupos is to take consecutive 1-2 minute Avis and then derotate the stacked images rather than derotating a long avi.

Steve.

Edited March 17, 2016 by Grotemobile