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Offline CptTrips

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Astrophotography: Jupiter Personal Best
« on: August 11, 2009, 05:52:20 PM »

I think this is my best Jupiter so far.  Not as good of a lot of the ones I've seen, but the best I've done.

From last night, 2:13am local.



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Re: Astrophotography: Jupiter Personal Best
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2009, 06:07:46 PM »
Very nice, Wab.  Thanks for sharing.
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Re: Astrophotography: Jupiter Personal Best
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2009, 06:37:18 PM »
Tell me about your telescope. I have to get one of those bad boys. Awesome shot!  :aok
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Re: Astrophotography: Jupiter Personal Best
« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2009, 07:43:40 PM »
Quote from: uptown on August 11, 2009, 06:37:18 PM
Tell me about your telescope. I have to get one of those bad boys. Awesome shot!  :aok

I did some checking into a telescope, but, right now not sure if my checkbook is big enough to do the right thing.  I didnt want to buy a cheap one, as cheap always makes me buy 2.. the cheap one and the better one after the cheap one doesnt do what you want.

Second thing is wind.  I live in windy western kansas, not sure how strong the mounts are against wind. 

I am going to check around the neighboring towns and see if I can find someone who has a setup and see what I think before chucking out +5 grand.
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Re: Astrophotography: Jupiter Personal Best
« Reply #4 on: August 11, 2009, 08:09:54 PM »
If you view in windy conditions from your own property, build an observatory.  Lots of fairly simple plans on the internet for enclosures of all sizes and complexity.
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Re: Astrophotography: Jupiter Personal Best
« Reply #5 on: August 11, 2009, 08:26:32 PM »
the dark spot on the darkest of the orange bands, is that the new spot created by the meteor that struck Jupiter?


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Re: Astrophotography: Jupiter Personal Best
« Reply #6 on: August 11, 2009, 09:01:12 PM »
Even got some shading on Io..... Very nice amateur shot indeed Wab.  :rock

ACK ACK...

That strike was in the high "north" and is offset from the Great Red Spot.  By now, it's probably been swallowed up by the Jovian atmosphere....though we'll see.  In Wab's pic it would be just on the eastern limb, facing about 90 degrees away.

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Re: Astrophotography: Jupiter Personal Best
« Reply #7 on: August 11, 2009, 10:48:15 PM »
Very awesome photo Wab!
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Re: Astrophotography: Jupiter Personal Best
« Reply #8 on: August 12, 2009, 08:16:06 PM »
Breathtaking sir, simply breathtaking. If i had a system like that i would get no sleep. I could spend hours just staring out to the stars

Thanks for sharing

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Re: Astrophotography: Jupiter Personal Best
« Reply #9 on: August 12, 2009, 10:53:32 PM »
Quote from: uptown on August 11, 2009, 06:37:18 PM
Tell me about your telescope. I have to get one of those bad boys. Awesome shot!  :aok

Here is my scope:
http://jasonirby.net/astronomy/Observatory/phase3/pages/DSC00725.htm

I was using the blue 12" Meade SCT.  Now understand Jupiter doesn't look like that at the eyepiece on my scope.  Quite a bit of voodoo was done to extract that detail and color.

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Re: Astrophotography: Jupiter Personal Best
« Reply #10 on: August 12, 2009, 10:56:24 PM »
Quote from: Rondar on August 11, 2009, 07:43:40 PM
I did some checking into a telescope, but, right now not sure if my checkbook is big enough to do the right thing.  I didnt want to buy a cheap one, as cheap always makes me buy 2.. the cheap one and the better one after the cheap one doesnt do what you want.

Second thing is wind.  I live in windy western kansas, not sure how strong the mounts are against wind. 

I am going to check around the neighboring towns and see if I can find someone who has a setup and see what I think before chucking out +5 grand.

Thats a really good idea.  See if you can find a local club that meets in your area.  That is a great way to talk to a bunch of knowledgeable peoeple and look at different targets through a bunch of different kind of equipment.

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Re: Astrophotography: Jupiter Personal Best
« Reply #11 on: August 12, 2009, 10:59:19 PM »
Quote from: Ack-Ack on August 11, 2009, 08:26:32 PM
the dark spot on the darkest of the orange bands, is that the new spot created by the meteor that struck Jupiter?


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Moray is correct.  If I had waited another hour it would have been rotating into view.  Its would have been below the great red spot (in my orientation) in the southern polar region about 2 hrs behind the great red spot.

I might see if I can catch that Thurs but not sure how much of it is left.

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Re: Astrophotography: Jupiter Personal Best
« Reply #12 on: August 13, 2009, 01:04:55 AM »
This is from a few days ago and IIRC it's a span of about 1-2 weeks, so the spot's probably gone, or nearly gone by now.
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Re: Astrophotography: Jupiter Personal Best
« Reply #13 on: August 13, 2009, 10:49:17 AM »
I've always wanted to do that. Course, I've always been broke. Our neighbors gave us one once, course, it was broke, but we somehow (I don't know, SOMEHOW) managed to fix it, to where we could zoom in on the moon.

There was this guy in our neighborhood who made an observatory, with this very fancy telescope. With a dome and everything, when he died, he gave the dome to Southwestern University IIRC.

Very cool driving by it and seeing it. I would love to see what it looks like inside.
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Re: Astrophotography: Jupiter Personal Best
« Reply #14 on: August 13, 2009, 11:41:12 AM »
LOL if a guy had Wabbit's scope and viewed it a lil more horizontally, you could prolly find a few "wednesday babes"  :O :O
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