Jupiter--in IR

Hi all,

Well CSC forecast good seeing last night but it was way off, seeing was at best 4-6/10. That coupled with it being only 39 degrees up made for pretty hopeless avis with the Toucam Sooo I thought why not try the new Baader IR passband filter with the B&W Atik webcam? This made a pretty marked difference! The stack is only 156/1200 but it shows a lot more than in regular light. Still no way to make a colour image in the short timespan of 90 seconds though Best way I can think of is to (this is a money no object solution 8O ) get 2 firewire or Lumenera cameras one a B&W for the L shots and a colour one and mount them on a swivel turret to quickly switch between the 2. Trouble is I can't even convince my Wife that ONE more camera is a good idea :S

happy Easter all

Mike W

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Hi Mike, That's a very good image for the conditions. Keep working on that idea, I bet the images would be astounding.

Clear skies,

Ed Roach

Hi Mike -

I think your image shows a great deal of detail. Here the forcast was for poor seeing but it was better than average. I was able to see the N/S limb darkening in Io that your image shows very well.

I have tried the 2 webcam solution - it was very challenging. I had a refocus issue between the two cameras which took too much time - even at 30FPS. Maybe when the glove season is officially over it will go faster!

I think using the high resolution monochrome camera with an RGB filter wheel might be the best way to go. The firewire cams support 2x2 binning which should be helpful to increase sensitivity when aquiring the color info.

best -
Alan

Hi Mike,

Very interesting image, there is a lot of detail there.

Thanks,

Wes Higgins