The Dutch Observatory

Got up early this morning and was able to make few capture runs before the clouds got too much in the way.  Here the best of them, still with seeing and transparency not good at all.  The moon is Ganymede and the GRS is just moving off the planetary disk on the left.

The last day to catch up on.  Here the images from 2013-10-18 with a beautiful Sun

Images taken on 2013-10-13 (You can see my frustration of not having my internet up in the processing of the full disk images

My AT&T internet service has been down from 2013-10-07 until the 17th, so I am behind in posting.  Following the frustration about this, I don’t remember what the specifics were on that date but here are my images of the 10th.  This also is my 700th post in my blog since I started posting my images.

Here my images from 2013-10-09

The clouds and rain did not come until later in the day, so continued some experimenting with separation rings and my barlows.  Too many images to publish, but here the full disk image and a close up of 1857 and 1856.

It was supposed to rain and storm, but when I woke up at 5:00 the sky was clear.  So another opportunity to gain some experience with the ASI120MM imaging Jupiter.  Stability was not great but I am posting anyway what I got. I got reacquainted with Emiel Kraaikamp’s stacking software.  Wow, how that has come since the early beginnings.  Congratulations Emiel!!   Two days in a row the GRS!!

The sun is out again this morning, so here a few experiments with the old cameras and the new ASI120MM.  All images are annotated with the equipment the image was taken for those who are interested.

It has almost been three years since I imaged Jupiter, but I wanted to give this a try again with the new ASI120MM camera.  A lot to learn!  My old process does not work anymore, so searching again for the best way to do it.  Not too bad for the first Jupiter  image with this new camera  in this new apparition.

Sunny and calm until the clouds moved across.  Spend some time to image close ups from 1855 and 1857 and I am showing the best results. I am getting used to the new camera for this type of images.   The whole disk image shows how AR1855 has grown substantially.  Also the close ups show this.  The two regions at the Eastern limb are developing also strongly, and the eruptive prom that I imaged earlier in the week was initiated here.  So who knows what’s coming.