Jupiter 21st Oct

First draft shot of Jupiter taken in reasonable seeing. Best 1400 out of 2000 frames taken with a DFK camera and C11 at F10.
The seeing here is generally quite good as we are only a few miles from the sea.

farm2.static.flickr.com/1068/5102072458_b1d292c3cc_z.jpg

and a bit over processed

farm2.static.flickr.com/1163/5102123066_41738a98d0_z.jpg

and with 2250 frames

farm2.static.flickr.com/1365/5101585763_38b5d690a3_b.jpg


Captured and processed on a Samsung N110 netbook at 30 fps in full RGB32- netbooks are the biz for image capture.

John - excellent images. Any reason why we can see only one of the Galilean moons?

Also, these netbooks seem to offer a lot for mobile imagers. What kind of battery life can you get? And does it have an RS232 port?

Cheers
Dave

yeah where are the other moons?....brilliant photo though

dmcdona wrote:

John - excellent images. Any reason why we can see only one of the Galilean moons?

Also, these netbooks seem to offer a lot for mobile imagers. What kind of battery life can you get? And does it have an RS232 port?

Cheers
Dave

Thanks Dave

From what I remember and looking at the avi's the other moons were just off frame. I have an avi showing the transit which I will post later. Do remember that I am 11 hours ahead of you guys so it was not captured at 8.30 GMT.
As for the netbook, I took about 8 avi's (some over 1Gb) and ran registax on two of them and still had a full battery. I'm guessing a few hours is feasible - the battery is rated for 8 hours of "normal" use.
There is no RS232 but you can get a USB adapter.

On the advice of my buddies on ice in space, I have reprocessed the same image but only stacked the best 500 frames out of 3000 taken. I am pretty pleased with the result

farm2.static.flickr.com/1074/5103834521_e2c816070a_b.jpg

That's an excellent image John.
Really good.

Michael.

Great detail captured their! great cloud features! the GRS is very striking! colour is well naturally balanced! great images John! congrads!