Jupiter GRS & Europa transit Oct 27-28th 2023

[Space Cowboy]

Gave it a go last night despite the forecast being less than exciting but showing a wiff of clearish sky. Seeing was not the best but there were moments of detail. Here is a quick 3 image preview. Got nearly 30 captures from 22.22 ut to 23.41 ut.

Pleased considering how bad its been this year . 10" Dob & QHY585c :

 

 

 

[Space Cowboy]

Quick animation using wavesharp :

 

Edited October 28, 2023 by Space Cowboy

[Kon]

I see you got your clear sky. Nice set of images. It will be interesting to see if you do a derotation.

The animation is excellent and it really gives it a 3d feeling to it.

[Neil_104]

Fantastic. The animation is truly mesmerising 👍

[Space Cowboy]

20 minutes ago, Kon said:

I see you got your clear sky. Nice set of images. It will be interesting to see if you do a derotation.

The animation is excellent and it really gives it a 3d feeling to it.

Thank Kostas I'm pleased and pretty surprised how well things went as the evening started off with rain and I wasn't expecting anything.  Jupiter has grown so much since I last saw it and even in wobbly seeing much easier to focus. The animation as you say shows a different dimention with more constructed detail. Just need to process it some more. Wavesharp is starting to impress me more too.

Many hours of processing ahead unless something better crops up but I'm not holding my breath looking at the forecast.

[Space Cowboy]

9 minutes ago, Neil_104 said:

Fantastic. The animation is truly mesmerising 👍

Cheers Neil!

[Kon]

23 minutes ago, Space Cowboy said:

Thank Kostas I'm pleased and pretty surprised how well things went as the evening started off with rain and I wasn't expecting anything.  Jupiter has grown so much since I last saw it and even in wobbly seeing much easier to focus. The animation as you say shows a different dimention with more constructed detail. Just need to process it some more. Wavesharp is starting to impress me more too.

Many hours of processing ahead unless something better crops up but I'm not holding my breath looking at the forecast.

I had the same feeling that it's a lot easier to focus now it's larger. We just need that excellent night. Give Astrosurface a try. Geof @geoflewis has been impressed. I will message you a screenshot of my initial settings to try when I am back from the holiday.

[geoflewis]

THose are really nice images Stuart and the animation is different, but very cool 😎

Edited October 28, 2023 by geoflewis

[Barv]

Love that animation Stuart! Very Cool 🙂

[orion25]

Brilliant, Stuart! Great color and detail. Love the animation!

Regards, Reggie

[Space Cowboy]

16 hours ago, Kon said:

I had the same feeling that it's a lot easier to focus now it's larger. We just need that excellent night. Give Astrosurface a try. Geof @geoflewis has been impressed. I will message you a screenshot of my initial settings to try when I am back from the holiday.

It will be interesting to see what AS settings you use Kostas thanks. Ive tried it on ocassions as I know Neil is a fan but haven't yet seen anything greatly different than registax. Its the batch processing and animation capability that has attracted me to waveharp.

[Pete Presland]

Excellent images and animation, some very nice details visible there. 

[Space Cowboy]

16 hours ago, geoflewis said:

THose are really nice images Stuart and the animation is different, but very cool 😎

Cheers Geof! Gotta love that field rotation effect 🙃

[Space Cowboy]

16 hours ago, Barv said:

Love that animation Stuart! Very Cool 🙂

Thanks Harvey! Animations give such a live feel to planetary imaging.

Cheers Reggie!

[Space Cowboy]

23 minutes ago, Pete Presland said:

Excellent images and animation, some very nice details visible there. 

Cheers Pete! Just got to run these images through winjupos and see if I can bring more detail out.

[Space Cowboy]

Polished up the animation. Not sure if the original looks better as the extra colour on this shows up the GIF compression artifacts? :

Edited October 29, 2023 by Space Cowboy

[geoflewis]

10 minutes ago, Space Cowboy said:

Polished up the animation. Not sure if the original looks better as the extra colour on this shows up the GIF compression artifacts? :

I like the extra colour Stuart

[Kon]

I agree with Geof. It makes it pop better too.

[Space Cowboy]

Thanks fellas! Think sometimes I focus too much on the imperfections. I do find the original quite mesmerising in a way I've not seen before on my animations. Maybe it's the way the field rotation has orientated Jupiter. I'm amazed how consistent the images are considering seeing wasn't good and trans was hazy.