Jupiter with GRS and partial Europa Transit

[fireballxl5]

No chance for the partial lunar eclipse here last night owing to rain so I got on with processing my Jupiter - GRS - Europa/shadow transit captures from late Friday night...

I was caught out by earlier cloud so missed the start of the event, with further delay as the scope needed some collimation TLC. Conditions were so-so, with intermittent cloud but seeing visually was reasonably good.

Captured twenty-three 2-minute videos over 45 minutes which have been used to create the animated GIF and also the de-rotated image, processed using a combination of AS!3, AstroSurface, WaveSharp and WinJupos. Before the clouds came fully back I managed a single capture using an Astronomik ProPlanet 642 IR-pass filter.

Also had time for some eye-ball views through my SM125ED refractor @ 195x mag, which were stunning🙂

OMC300 / ASI462MC / ADC / UV-IR filter / 5ms / best 25% of approx 17,000 frames per video. Tracking ALT-AZ mount so some field rotation present in the video.

CS, Andy

[Pete Presland]

Very nice, the animation has a real 3D look to it !

[geoflewis]

Very nice results Andy