Integration time: Lucky imaging: best 25% frames from 3000 video frames (1000 of each RGB).
'Sing to the Moon and the stars will shine'
Integration time: Lucky imaging: best 25% frames from 3000 video frames (1000 of each RGB).
The sky conditions were remarkably good this evening though with some patchy cloud. The jet stream was slow for once after stormy weather yesterday and the planets showed plenty of detail. I was lucky to catch the Great Red Spot on Jupiter with a simultaneous shadow transit of Europa at 22h10.
Seeing index: 3
Transparency: 2
Jet stream: Poor
Moon phase: 44%
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A sketch of Jupiter very close to sunrise
This morning gave a really excellent view of Jupiter in the Dobsonian. The sky was lightening constantly as I watched and the reduction in contrast against the sky I believe enhanced considerably the view and removed any diffraction spiking that might have intruded. Venus as a semi-crecent and Sirius were also prominent.