Jupiter, 31 Aug

[brianb]

Nice transparent clear night last night & the seeing was moderate with only light continuous boiling. First set of captures at prime focus went very well:

Then I stuffed in the "1.5x" barlow (which actually gives me almost 2x) focused carefully & started capturing (red first as usual). After about 50 secs into the 1 min capture the seeing went completely pants - from being able to see loads of detail in the preview screen I was hardly able to make out the NEB - and it stayed that way, so I only got a red image in larger scale:

0207 UT. CM1 004 CM2 144. Alt 33.7 deg.

About an hour later a band of cirrocumulus spread across the sky from the north west ... I suspect the sudden & catastrophic breakdown in seeing was caused by the incursion of a jet stream which this cloud band was associated with.

[Virgoman]

Great captures of the......non boring side? Brian. Brilliant images as ever. Let`s hope this high pressure sticks around for a while.

Best regards,

Ralph

[barkis]

Excellent display as usual.

Such a colourful world Jupiter, and it's nice to see such quality images of it.

Ron.

[Gadget]

Fantastic detail and colour

Very nice indeed

Kevin

[moocher]

Stunning images Brian!!!!! No where is my DMK......?

Alan