Mike Salway
12th of May 2009 (Tue), 02:33
Seeing was great this morning, 12th May local time, the best I’ve had all year. Ganymede was approaching Jupiter, soon to begin transit.
Here’s one of the 11 images I captured from this morning - the first one to be fully processed and one of the best from the session. The others are still at various stages of processing - more to come in the next day or so - plus an animation of course!
There is an NEB outbreak setting on the bottom left, as well as a large rift on the NEB rotating into view on the right. Ganymede has a number of albedo markings too, including a bright spot on the southern tip.
After the shocking run of seeing I’ve had this year so far, finally the good seeing is starting to come. I can’t tell you what a joy it was to process this image after the rubbish I’ve been processing for months!
More details to come when the final images and animation are ready.
Jupiter + Ganymede (http://www.mikesalway.com.au/2009/05/12/jupiter-and-ganymede-my-best-this-year)
Thanks for looking.
Here’s one of the 11 images I captured from this morning - the first one to be fully processed and one of the best from the session. The others are still at various stages of processing - more to come in the next day or so - plus an animation of course!
There is an NEB outbreak setting on the bottom left, as well as a large rift on the NEB rotating into view on the right. Ganymede has a number of albedo markings too, including a bright spot on the southern tip.
After the shocking run of seeing I’ve had this year so far, finally the good seeing is starting to come. I can’t tell you what a joy it was to process this image after the rubbish I’ve been processing for months!
More details to come when the final images and animation are ready.
Jupiter + Ganymede (http://www.mikesalway.com.au/2009/05/12/jupiter-and-ganymede-my-best-this-year)
Thanks for looking.