Hi all,

I couldn’t wait any longer for giving a new camera of mine a try with
Jupiter.
Visually, the seeing was scary and measurable in the Richter scale only.

But the result I could get out with this ultra clean and sensitive
ICX285AL sensor was impressive nonetheless!
The R filter also helped a lot in mitigating the strong turbulence.
I expect great results later on the Moon.

The image here shows the GRS setting sequence.

More to follow.

Hi all,

I was able to capture a small collection of Jupiter images in mediocre
conditions over 4 following evenings.

Here (July 26) is noticed a weird curl on the southern border of the
vanished SEB.

More to follow.

Hi all,

Here another image of Jupiter under poor seeing conditions.

To be noticed, the turbulent tail of the GRS and an hint of the NNTB (if
I’m not mistaken) here imaged as a yellowish segment.

Hi all,

In our forever sunny but unsteady summer, myself and my friend Nicola
decided to move our targets toward Milky Way nebulae to give a new
camera of mine some preliminary test.

But on July 19, waiting for the darkness falling over his 250mm
newtonian scope, we had an unexpectedly pleasant view of the usually
“milky” gas giant here placed at 23 degs.
We were lucky enough to have some ‘hires imaging hardware’ with
ourselves, so we could grab some interesting stuff.
I could as well test a colorized VGA sensor based camera of mine.

Here’s the result:

I’m not sure I could have more luck in the future…

Altra immagine del gigante gassoso, stavolta con le solite schifide
condizioni di seeing. Ottima trasparenza sui 1500 metri del Giogo.

Da notare la zona turbolenta che segue da vicino la GRS particolarmente
rossa e un accenno delle NNTB (se non erro) che qui appare come un esile
filamento giallastro.

Qualche artefatto circolare al lembo purtroppo presente a causa del
basso contrasto che aveva Giove quella sera col cielo ancora chiaro.

Hi all,

On the last weekend seeing was good (very good to the zenith), but at 23
degs the stability quickly falled down to just fair.
That was enough to grab some color image of Jupiter with a camera
prototype I’m working around.

Nothing of special, but nothing would have been worse!

http://www.lazzarotti-hires.com/images/jupiter/jupiter20070707_lazz.jpg
http://www.lazzarotti-hires.com/images/jupiter/jupiter20070708_lazz.jpg

Hi all,

Find here my first two images of the old and fat Jupiter which is no
longer able to climb high in the sky as happened on the last years!

Both the 2 images were grabbed with the planet below 25 degrees of altitude!
So far, I never grabbed a planet so low above the horizon!
And the seeing wasn’t that good even at high altitudes…

Hopeless situation here…