Jupiter 6th Nov

[neiil phillips]

Ive not been doing any astronomy. Tonight. I thought I would. Very rusty. Nothing fancy. No winjupos Just a IR685 and color rendition 

12" Stella Lyra eq6 r mount 

22:33 UT for the IR685

 

Edited November 7, 2023 by neiil phillips

[Pete Presland]

First proper session for me for a while as well, looks good Neil. I think packed up around 30 minutes before the transit started, good see the GRS again though. Some very nice detail visible there Neiil.

[Space Cowboy]

Great to see you back Neil! Very nice capture straight off the bat! Io poles showing clearly. 

[yelsac]

Nothing fancy! They are so good, love the contrast between the ir & colour image, seriously looking forward to your fancy pictures 👍

[Kon]

Nice captures and processing Neil. Great to see you back again.

[neiil phillips]

2 hours ago, Pete Presland said:

First proper session for me for a while as well, looks good Neil. I think packed up around 30 minutes before the transit started, good see the GRS again though. Some very nice detail visible there Neiil.

Hi Pete. Good to hear you had got some time in too. Cheers 

[neiil phillips]

2 hours ago, Space Cowboy said:

Great to see you back Neil! Very nice capture straight off the bat! Io poles showing clearly. 

Hi Stuart. Was actually quite good getting out again. Everything seemed to go quite smoothly. There's usually something slowing me down. From polar aligning. To collimating the primary (stock springs on this) very hit and miss. Ive had a merry go round on occasion. But no everything just fell into place. which surprised me.. Cheers for the comments Bud.

[neiil phillips]

48 minutes ago, yelsac said:

Nothing fancy! They are so good, love the contrast between the ir & colour image, seriously looking forward to your fancy pictures 👍

Much appreciated. I did do a 5 min run. That i will winjup. At some point. Thanks for the kind comments

[neiil phillips]

11 minutes ago, Kon said:

Nice captures and processing Neil. Great to see you back again.

Hi Kostas. Good to speak with you again. Your eye is probably better than mine. Been out the game for so long. So your response is encouraging. Cheers my friend

[Glasspusher]

Nice images, good to see you posting again Neil.

[neiil phillips]

1 hour ago, Glasspusher said:

Nice images, good to see you posting again Neil.

Many thanks John. Much appreciated. Now I have broke the ice. Hope to do some more at some point. Cheers 

[geoflewis]

Nice images and processing as ever Neil and as others said, it's great to see you back imaging and posting.

[neiil phillips]

8 hours ago, geoflewis said:

Nice images and processing as ever Neil and as others said, it's great to see you back imaging and posting.

Thanks Geoff. Much appreciated. I have some more to go through couple of 5 min runs to de rotate Cheers

[neiil phillips]

Still only 3 mins will try 5 de rotated  soon 

 

Edited November 10, 2023 by neiil phillips

[neiil phillips]

Double post

 

Edited November 10, 2023 by neiil phillips

[geoflewis]

46 minutes ago, neiil phillips said:

Still only 3 mins will try 5 de rotated  soon 

 

Looking good Neil

[Kon]

4 hours ago, neiil phillips said:

Still only 3 mins will try 5 de rotated  soon 

 

 

Some really nice details.

[dweller25]

Good to see you back again Neil, another great image 👍

[neiil phillips]

Thanks Guys much appreciated

Heres a 5 min capture. video de rotation 

23:37 UT

Edited November 11, 2023 by neiil phillips

[geoflewis]

3 hours ago, neiil phillips said:

Thanks Guys much appreciated

Heres a 5 min capture. video de rotation 

23:37 UT

That's excellent Neil 👏

Edited November 11, 2023 by geoflewis

[neiil phillips]

14 minutes ago, geoflewis said:

Thanks excellent Neil 👏

Thanks again Geoff. Was nice to be back in the saddle so to speak. Having to set up such a monster Newtonian from scratch. Is never easy. Everything just flowed. No hassles. Its like I had never been away. usually something becomes difficult. Or goes wrong. But no. Everything went well. I was surprised how well

[geoflewis]

1 hour ago, neiil phillips said:

Thanks again Geoff. Was nice to be back in the saddle so to speak. Having to set up such a monster Newtonian from scratch. Is never easy. Everything just flowed. No hassles. Its like I had never been away. usually something becomes difficult. Or goes wrong. But no. Everything went well. I was surprised how well

That's great to hear Neil, but I'm not surprised, as you're such an accomplished imager with bags of experience, so as you say, just like getting back in the saddle as if nothing changed...