Jupiter 20160329
Jupiter 20160330 02;22 UT Best ever!
Wow… another clear night Tuesday night.. with no moon rising until after midnight!
So outside to setup and start to image Jupiter from about 21:30-23:30 EDT.
To my surprise, the GRS was traversing across the face! Added bonus!
Minor notes from the night:
– do not attempt to install a new remote desktop client while imaging. Crashed the firecapture app, lost the camera, and had to restart the sequence. This is the 14 minute jump in the sequence of images early on.
– after install chrome remote desktop, I do find it a little better than ultravnc that I had been using.
– Watching two hours of imaging was interesting seeing was poor to average, transparency was average. But then, for about 3 minutes, it went crystal clear. The focus snapped into place like the lens had been fogged all evening prior. and then it got worse.
It took until today to process the 58 runs made (each 90 sec with a 30 sec break, or 2 minutes total cycling time).
– after purchasing a new 240GB SSD to replace the 120GB SSD in the imaging laptop a month or two ago… I still ran out of drive space! 150GB of images from 2 hours alone. I may have to increase the 30 sec break time to 90 sec, just to get a greater overall span to get more Jupiter rotation.
I have a routine (batch file) that i run after the end of the session, which moves all of the images off the laptop and onto another computer. I am reluctant to try to run this while imaging however.. But I may have to…
I continue to be amazed at how a perfectly naked eye visual look at a clear night sky can be horrible for imaging.
Jupiter 20160330 02:18 UT average
Image at 02:18UT was not great. The seeing was average at this time. The moon Io is seen off to the upper left.
The very next image run was 02:22 UT and it was FANTASTIC! The best ever shot of the GRS I have made.
Io snapped into focus and can be easily seen now.
Turbulence can be seen trailing the GRS Wow!
This is the .gif animation running from 01:22 to 03:26 UT
