Jupiter Pictures by Aussies
When Mike Salway sent us one of his Jupiter images from the southern hemisphere, he included one more picture of Jupiter by another Australian astro-photographer, Lester Barnes. Lester does not have a website or submit his image anywhere, so Mike sent it to us on Lester’s behalf.
Both images are brilliant works!
The one from Lester:
The pictures were taken with DFK 21AF04.AS camera and Meade 14″ SCT, on the 9th April local time. He used Registax 5 and AstraImage for processing. According to Mike,
it’s easily the best Jupiter image captured by anyone this year so far. I can tell you it discouraged me from finishing the processing on mine!
About his image:
My image from this morning was captured at around 5:44am local time, and Jupiter was nice and high at 50° just before sunrise. Unfortunately the seeing still hasn’t been co-operating. I captured at 30fps for 40 seconds in each channel, and used 150 frames in each channel to stack into the final RGB image.
Many thanks to you both!
Thomas said,
May 3, 2009 @ 22:23
Beautiful and impressive photo of Jupiter there! Really nice! Well done to the two guys!
Alberto Mayer said,
May 6, 2009 @ 16:49
Very nice work!
When i will have the chance even only to attempt imaging Jupiter?
A question for Mike:
Watching at you Jupiter it seems that the vertical resolution is higher than the horizontal one.
The delimitation between the bands is fairly good.
At first sight i thought about a rotational motion-blur.
Maybe for a “file opening” mistake you mixed different channels from consecutive captures?
Excuse me for the silly hypothesis but i was really wondering about that difference.
Cheers
Alberto
Mike Salway said,
May 8, 2009 @ 09:03
Hi Alberto
It’s simply a symptom of the bad run of seeing that I’d been having, it’s not rotational blur.
You can see the difference in my images captured over the last week, when seeing had been much better;
Thanks!
Shevill mathers said,
June 3, 2009 @ 13:31
Lester,
That has to be the best image of Jupiter I have seen in a long time, fantastic detail, even sharp out to the limb with no false colour.
The rising Aussie star in planetary imaging – clear skies & thanks for sharing.
roy landers said,
June 3, 2009 @ 17:05
hi, have seen your pictures of jupiter, and am very impressed. i have a lx90, but am still coming to grips with it, have several teething problems, but hope-fully will sort them out.
i look forward to more pictures in the future.
regards
roy landers
Shevill Mathers said,
June 4, 2009 @ 20:12
There is no doubt that the Imaging Source range of camera’s is allowing many more telescope owners to get into astrophotography-at a very good price point, with an industry level camera. I am seeing some really great images from fellow astronomers, who, a short time ago, had little or no intention of getting into astrophotography. IS have made it so much easier to get started on the exciting path.
Good collimation & Clear skies to all.
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August 20, 2009 @ 06:52
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