Last nights forecast for this morning showed me 100% high cloud. High cloud is sometimes totally transparent, sometimes totally opaque
At 05:00 edt this morning it was a mixture of both… exposures were about 20-40% higher, so the transparency was poor, plus there were thick clouds moving through the field as well.
This was the best of 15 runs (each run was 180 seconds, approx 25K frames at 4ms each, stacking the best 5%. The Great Red Spot is just exiting on the lower right.
The session ended when Jupiter disappeared completely. I check the findercam as well and it was dark. I ramped up the exposures in case of a little cloud, but still did not see anything. I feared a runaway mount or cable wrap or something like that. Raced outside to find Jupiter totally clouded over.
Below is an attached 2MB animated GIF of the runs as well. Overall a poor imaging session.
