Another Jupiter

[Barv]

This one surprised me somewhat as I was imaging in a gap in the jetstream. An aircraft (jet), passed just south of the planet half way through the green channel on the middle of the run too. Doesn't seem to have messed things up too much though. This is a 3 RGB run. I was somewhat lucky, because it rained here about an hour after imaging 

[geoflewis]

That’s superb Harvey, smooth as cream with lots of detail.

It’s one of the things I love about planetary vs DSO imaging, you only need a fairly brief gap, in good seeing to get what you need for an excellent image.

[Barv]

7 minutes ago, geoflewis said:

That’s superb Harvey, smooth as cream with lots of detail.

It’s one of the things I love about planetary vs DSO imaging, you only need a fairly brief gap, in good seeing to get what you need for an excellent image.

You are right about that. I missed the night before which was clear all night. I saw it was clear last night so opened up the obsy. The rain came in within an hour of me closing it. I grabbed about 5 RGB runs and that was it. I'm glad I have finally found the focusing offsets with the various filters, it took some time to perfect.

[Kon]

Excellent image and lots of details. Nice natural look to it.

[geoflewis]

I went out a bit later last night with fog thickening. The seeing looked good, but I was too late as the fog rapidly turned to cloud.

Was that with the 290MM, I haven’t used mine for over a year now, I just go with the 462MC. 

[Barv]

4 minutes ago, Kon said:

Excellent image and lots of details. Nice natural look to it.

Thanks Kosta. 🙂

[Barv]

3 minutes ago, geoflewis said:

I went out a bit later last night with fog thickening. The seeing looked good, but I was too late as the fog rapidly turned to cloud.

Was that with the 290MM, I haven’t used mine for over a year now, I just go with the 462MC. 

No, it was with the QHY 5111678 mono. Dare I say it but it was oversampled at around F14, so over the 5X pixel size recommended. (7 times). I always find on nights of decent seeing I can get higher levels of detail doing this. Detail covers more pixels I spose

[yelsac]

Lovely image Harvey, really nice to look at, you must be pleased with that one 👍

[Barv]

On 08/12/2023 at 14:29, yelsac said:

Lovely image Harvey, really nice to look at, you must be pleased with that one 👍

I am pleased with it. Thank you 

[orion25]

Beautiful image! Easy on the eye. I like lucky imaging

Reggie

[Barv]

On 14/12/2023 at 22:44, orion25 said:

Beautiful image! Easy on the eye. I like lucky imaging

Reggie

Many thanks Reggie. I was really lucky to get these conditions in the narrow window that was had, so I know what you mean! 🙂

[stuy]

Fantastic image mate 👍👌

[Pete Presland]

Superb image Harvey. we all need a bit of luck, but its skill that delivers images like this when "luck" is on our side occasionally. As i have said before i don't like the term "lucky imaging" luck plays a small role in images like this in my opinion 🙂 

[Barv]

On 27/12/2023 at 18:19, stuy said:

Fantastic image mate 👍👌

Thanks Stuuy, appreciated! 🙂

[bish]

Fantastic.   Always amazes me the detail that can be achieved. 

[kev]

Nice pic. Sometimes it all comes together.  

[Barv]

On 29/12/2023 at 18:28, Pete Presland said:

Superb image Harvey. we all need a bit of luck, but its skill that delivers images like this when "luck" is on our side occasionally. As i have said before i don't like the term "lucky imaging" luck plays a small role in images like this in my opinion 🙂 

Thanks Pete. Agreed, you spend a lot more time processing than capturing the data, although the capture needs to be bang on to bring out the best results, - particularly in the UK