Io shadow transit 9th January 2024

[lukebl]

Not the best of images, but I managed to capture most of Io's shadow transit this afternoon. I captured 45 second exposures every 140 seconds from 15:55 (when the sun was still above the horizon and the sky was bright blue), til about 17:53.

39 captures of c. 6000 frames at 3ms, ZVO ASI120mc cam, 2x Barlow, 250mm f/4.8 Newtonian. Captured with Firecapture, processed in Autostakkert, Registax and Photoshop.

 

[Kon]

Nice animation and hats off for the determination to stay out in this bitter cold to get it.

[geoflewis]

Wow, well done sticking with it for the entire shadow transit; you got an excellent record of the event. I set up around 3:45-4pm, but the conditions were awful making it impossible to focus with any certainty, so once Io got to the GRS I just went with what I had and captured 25x1m SERS with 10sec intervals so approximately half an hour elapsed time.

[orion25]

Lovely animation, Luke!

[dweller25]

Great video @lukebl, I was out at the same time and conditions were tricky.

[bosun21]

Lovely animation 👍. I had to abandon my planetary imaging session due to my new 10" dobsonian buffetting in the wind. Impossible to keep it in the ROI or focus properly.

[Planetary Observer]

Good animation, and glad someone was able to get out viewing/imaging yesterday - I had strong winds (up to 40mph) and really poor seeing yesterday.