Jupiter 1 April 2013 01:27 UT Dia. 36"
Scope: LX200GPS 12" F25, Optical Attachments: 2.5x TeleVue PowerMate, Camera: Point Grey Flea 3 Firewire, Chroma Technology RGB filters, Mount: LX200, Super Field Tripod, Super Wedge. Exposures: 120 sec of data (7200 frames) ea. channel at 70% histogram. Location: Driveway, Dallas, Tx. USA, Conditions: Seeing Fair 5/10, Temp. ~65 deg. F, Acquisition SW: FireCapture, Processing: Autostakkert 2 align stack (66% selection), Registax wavelet processing, WinJupos Derotate, RGB combine, Photoshop/Topaz final adjustments. Collected data at ~60 fps. Click on the image to see a larger version.
Jupiter 27 Feb. 2013 02:24 UT Dia. 39"
Scope: LX200GPS 12" F25, Optical Attachments: 2.5x TeleVue PowerMate, Camera: Point Grey Flea 3 Firewire, Chroma Technology RGB filters, Mount: LX200, Super Field Tripod, Super Wedge. Exposures: 120 sec of data (7200 frames) ea. channel at 70% histogram. Location: Driveway, Dallas, Tx. USA, Conditions: Seeing Good 6/10, Temp. ~50 deg. F, Acquisition SW: FireCapture, Processing: Autostakkert 2 align stack (66% selection), Registax wavelet processing, WinJupos Derotate, RGB combine, Photoshop/Topaz final adjustments. Collected data at ~60 fps. Click on the image to see a larger version.
Jupiter 27 Feb. 2013 01:43 UT Dia. 39"
Scope: LX200GPS 12" F25, Optical Attachments: 2.5x TeleVue PowerMate, Camera: Point Grey Flea 3 Firewire, Chroma Technology RGB filters, Mount: LX200, Super Field Tripod, Super Wedge. Exposures: 120 sec of data (7200 frames) ea. channel at 70% histogram. Location: Driveway, Dallas, Tx. USA, Conditions: Seeing Good 6/10, Temp. ~50 deg. F, Acquisition SW: FireCapture, Processing: Autostakkert 2 align stack (33% selection), Registax wavelet processing, WinJupos Derotate, RGB combine, Photoshop/Topaz final adjustments. Collected data at ~60 fps with lower gain settings than the image below. Click on the image to see a larger version.
Jupiter 14 Feb. 2013 01:49 UT Dia. 41"
Scope: LX200GPS 12" F25, Optical Attachments: 2.5x TeleVue PowerMate, Camera: Point Grey Flea 3 Firewire, Mount: LX200, Super Field Tripod, Super Wedge. Exposures: 120 sec of data ea. channel at 70% histogram. Location: Driveway, Dallas, Tx. USA, Conditions: Seeing Good 6/10, Temp. ~50 deg. F, Acquisition SW: FireCapture, Processing: Autostakkert 2 align stack, Registax wavelet processing, WinJupos Derotate, RGB combine, Photoshop final adjustments. This is my first Jupiter image with Chroma Technology RGB filters. I was able to run at considerably higher frame rates (80 fps for R and G, 50 fps for B). Click on the image to see a larger version.
Jupiter 21 Jan. 2013 01:53 UT Dia. 44.5"
Scope: LX200GPS 12" F25, Optical Attachments: 2.5x TeleVue PowerMate, Camera: Point Grey Flea 3 Firewire, Mount: LX200, Super Field Tripod, Super Wedge. Exposures: 180 sec of data ea. channel at 70% histogram. Location: Driveway, Dallas, Tx. USA, Conditions: Seeing Very Good 8/10, Temp. ~45 deg. F, Acquisition SW: FireCapture, Processing: Autostakkert 2 align stack, Registax wavelet processing, WinJupos Derotate, RGB combine, Photoshop final adjustments. Click on the image to see a larger version.
Jupiter 07 Jan. 2013 03:03 UT Dia. 46"
Scope: LX200GPS 12" F25, Optical Attachments: 2.5x TeleVue PowerMate, Camera: Point Grey Flea 3 Firewire, Mount: LX200, Super Field Tripod, Super Wedge. Exposures: 60 sec of data ea. channel at 70% histogram. Location: Driveway, Dallas, Tx. USA, Conditions: Seeing Very Good 8/10, Temp. ~45 deg. F, Acquisition SW: FireCapture, Processing: Autostakkert 2 align stack, Registax wavelet processing, WinJupos Derotate, RGB combine, Photoshop final adjustments. Click on the image to see a larger version.
Jupiter 07 Jan. 2013 02:40 UT Dia. 46"
Scope: LX200GPS 12" F25, Optical Attachments: 2.5x TeleVue PowerMate, Camera: Point Grey Flea 3 Firewire, Mount: LX200, Super Field Tripod, Super Wedge. Exposures: 60 sec of data ea. channel at 70% histogram. Location: Driveway, Dallas, Tx. USA, Conditions: Seeing Very Good 8/10, Temp. ~45 deg. F, Acquisition SW: FireCapture, Processing: Autostakkert 2 align stack, Registax wavelet processing, WinJupos Derotate, RGB combine, Photoshop final adjustments. Click on the image to see a larger version.
Jupiter 28 Nov. 2012 05:13 UT Dia. 48"
Scope: LX200GPS 12" F25, Optical Attachments: 2.5x TeleVue PowerMate, Camera: Point Grey Flea 3 Firewire, Mount: LX200, Super Field Tripod, Super Wedge. Exposures: 40 sec of data ea. channel at 70% histogram. Location: Driveway, Dallas, Tx. USA, Conditions: Seeing Good 6/10, Temp. ~48 deg. F, Processing: Autostakkert 2 align stack, Registax wavelet processing, Photoshop Hypass filter, RGB combine, resize 125%. Click on the image to see a larger version.
Jupiter 15 Nov. 2012 06:10 UT Dia. 48" (Io next to GRS and Shadow)
Scope: LX200GPS 12" F25, Optical Attachments: 2.5x TeleVue PowerMate, Camera: Point Grey Flea 3 Firewire, Mount: LX200, Super Field Tripod, Super Wedge. Exposures: 60 sec of data ea. channel at 70% histogram. Location: Driveway, Dallas, Tx. USA, Conditions: Seeing Good 6/10, Temp. ~45 deg. F, Processing: Autostakkert 2 align stack, Registax wavelet processing, Photoshop Hypass filter, RGB combine, resize. Click on the image to see a larger version.
Jupiter 20 Oct. 2012 10:30 UT
Scope: LX200GPS 12" F30, Optical Attachments: 3x TeleVue Barlow, Camera: Point Grey Flea 3 Firewire, Mount: LX200, Super Field Tripod, Super Wedge. Exposures: 40 sec of data ea. channel at 65% histogram. Location: Driveway, Dallas, Tx. USA, Conditions: Seeing 5/10, Temp. ~60 deg. F, Processing: Autostakkert 2 align stack, Registax wavelet processing, Photoshop: LRGB combine, unsharp mask, resize @75%. Click on the image to see a larger version.
Jupiter 23 Sept. 2012 11:35 UT (Europa in transit)
Scope: LX200GPS 12" F30, Optical Attachments: 3x TeleVue Barlow, Camera: Point Grey Flea 3 Firewire, Mount: LX200, Super Field Tripod, Super Wedge. Exposures: 2000 frames @ 45 FPS R, G and B. 2000 frames @ 30 FPS IR. Location: Driveway, Dallas, Tx. USA, Conditions: Seeing 7/10, Temp. ~70 deg. F, Processing: Registax 1000 frames each for R, G and B,1000 frames for IR, align stack wavelet processing, Photoshop: RGB combine, unsharp mask. Click on the image to see a larger version.
Jupiter Impact 10 Sept. 2012 11:35 UT
An apparent object impact captured about 6:35 am on Sept. 10, 2012 from Dallas, Texas USA. The impact was observed by Dan Petersen of Racine, Wisconsin visually this morning. His observation was posted later on the ALPO_Jupiter forum. When I saw the post, I went back and examined the videos that I had collected this morning. Click on the image to the left to see a 4 sec video clip of the impact on Flickr. The video was captured with a 12" LX200GPS, 3x Televue Barlow, and Point Grey Flea 3 camera. The capture software was Astro IIDC. Here is a link to a web page hosted by the University of Texas at Dallas with more detailed information and access to the full 2 minute 15 sec video.
Jupiter 09 Sept. 2012 11:52 UT
Scope: LX200GPS 12" F30, Optical Attachments: 3x TeleVue Barlow, Camera: Point Grey Flea 3 Firewire, Mount: LX200, Super Field Tripod, Super Wedge. Exposures: 2000 frames @ 15 FPS R, G and B. 4000 frames @ 30 FPS Lum. Location: Driveway, Dallas, Tx. USA, Conditions: Seeing 6/10, Temp. ~60 deg. F, Processing: Astro IIDC 1000 frames each for R, G and B, 2000 frames for Lum. align stack wavelet processing, Photoshop: unsharp mask. Click on the image to see a larger version.
Jupiter 27 Feb. 2004 6:40 UT
Scope: LX200GPS 12" F30, Optical Attachments: 3x TeleVue Barlow, Camera: Philips ToUcam Pro, Mogg Adapter, Mount: LX200, Super Field Tripod. Super Wedge
Exposures: 1/25 sec, 1800 frames @ 15 FPS for 2 min., Image size 640x480
Location: Driveway, Dallas, Tx. USA, Conditions: Seeing 7/10, Temp. ~35 deg.F
Processing: Reistax select (1500), align, stack, wavelet processing, Photoshop: unsharp mask, bright/contrast. Click on image to see a larger version.
Comment: Io's disk is visible just to the left of Io's shadow. Io is 1.13 arc sec in diameter.
Exposures: 1/25 sec, 1800 frames @ 15 FPS for 2 min., Image size 640x480
Location: Driveway, Dallas, Tx. USA, Conditions: Seeing 7/10, Temp. ~35 deg.F
Processing: Reistax select (1500), align, stack, wavelet processing, Photoshop: unsharp mask, bright/contrast. Click on image to see a larger version.
Comment: Io's disk is visible just to the left of Io's shadow. Io is 1.13 arc sec in diameter.
