Jupiter, 05 July

[brianb]

Had a look at Jupiter on Sunday morning after it got too light to continue deep sky work & decided it was worth imaging even though the seeing was poor to bad. Anyway


2009 July 05, 0216 UT (+/- 1 minute). Celestron CPC1100, Astronomik type IIc filter set, AstronomiK Planet IR Pro 742 (used instead of red colour seperation filter), Imaging Source DMK41 camera. Processed in Registax, colour synthesis in Astro Art.

Note the dimming effect near the west (right) limb caused by the small phase angle, the Great Red Spot just to the east of the meridian and the chaotic state of the NEB.

[Paul Evans]

That's an excellent shot given the low angle Brian. To think the best shots of Jupiter I have were taken in 2004 - not that they were up to much as I knew much less then than I do now - but the elevation was that much more favourable.

[brianb]

Thanks Paul ... I know I can do better than this if (when!) the seeing is reasonable. I have a couple of tricks up my sleeve as well.

[brianb]

I pulled one of those tricks out of the bag & reprocessed the AVIs....

Looks less natural but definitely more detail in there.

The difference here is that I've made the RGB image then used the infra red as "luminance". The colour should be accurate but may be slightly more saturated than is natural.

[pook]

Brian,
Very impressive, the trick certainly enhanced the detail. Keep them coming.
Pook