Joint amateur + HST imaging Monday morning

[bird]

Tomorrow morning there is a GRS transit at about 3.45am, and the HST will be imaging Jupiter half an hour later at 4.17am AEST. This is a great chance for joint imaging between amateurs and professionals, so if you have clear skies please try and join in!

The website for this event is organised by Chris Go: http://www.redspotjr.com/

If you think you have a chance to get high resolution, high quality images, please try and do everything to preserve the raw data as well as the processed images. Also record camera settings such as gain, gamma, exposure etc as these may be important for photometry measurements.

The seeing around here has been uniformly poor for the last few weeks but I'll be out there trying anyway :-)

cheers, Bird

[[1ponders]]

Man I hate getting up early. I'll just have to stay up all night then :) Thanks for the heads up bird.

If you leave now you might just be able to get up here and setup in time. The seeing's been pretty good this week .:whistle:

[bird]

grrr.

[[1ponders]]

:lol2:

We'll do our best to keep the conditions the same until you get here. How soon do you leave for your trip? Mid May you get up here isn't it?

[matt]

I'll be in it, Bird. Fingers crossed Canberra skies serve up something special

[janoskiss]

Looking forward to the images guys. ;)

[iceman]

Jupiter is too far in the west for me at that time, i'll have trees in the way so I won't be able to help out :(

[bird]

Booked into Rocky on the 4th of May, so I'll probably leave Canberra on the 2nd. I'll have to get your contact number so I can give you a call...

Bird

[[1ponders]]

That's be good bird. I'll pm you my number.

[davidpretorius]

i am in, not sure on the jetstream, but not a cloud anywhere at the moment

[matt]

Beautiful here too. Also not sure what the jetstream's doing but I'm cooling the 9.25, then ready for collimation check and full dew systems operational c'tain!!!! LOL

[asimov]

I'm obviously in. I predict yuck seeing though, winds coming from the wrong direction. Clouds forming too. I'll be trying in any case.

[[1ponders]]

Well I think you can count me out tonight. Looks like the windy, wet and wild winter weather is on its way. Looking at the map I think it's getting blown straight in from NZ

[Dennis]

Just popped my head outside to be greeted by clouds and wind - lots of both, so not looking too promising in Brisbane right now.

Oh well, who needs another 142 avi's anyhow.

Cheers

Dennis

[davidpretorius]

collimation is now asi like!!!

temp is meant to get to 1 degree tonight so 8 to go!!!

seeing is at least 5 already. 5 stars in trap and cd on saturn. all this with a 4 degree diff in temps ie tube currents

[matt]

Let's hope Hubble doesn't crash. Now that we haven't got your images to look forward to Dennis! (LOL)

[davidpretorius]

8:44 pm

ambient 2.5 degrees, mirror 5 degrees and falling.

250x magnification, jupiter and moons hardly moving, seeing is very good i would say 7ish.

looking good

[Dennis]

Hi Dave

No pressure mate, but the collective hopes of IIS and all the good folk in this mighty southern continent are resting on your broad, strong shoulders.

Cheers

Dennis

[[1ponders]]

2.5 deg :eyepop: Man I'm sitting here with the windows open and a blue singlet on (goin' for the truckie look tonight:P ) and you're freezin' your mirror cells off. That's weird.

[asimov]

Not weird, thats Tassie for ya!

ten four, over & out good buddy!

[davidpretorius]

2.2 degrees ambient mirror 3.2

8/10 at times. 250x, detail in the bands!

[davidpretorius]

from just after midnight, seeing is good

[gaa_ian]

Hi Asi
How did you go with Joop last night ?
I was up at Mt Martha on the Mornington Peninsulla with the NACAA crowd last night.
When I left at Midnight there was some determined Jupiter imaging going on with the clubs 18" beast !

[iceman]

Nice Dave, looking forward to the final!

[Robert_T]

I was a bit slow on the uptake with this one, though as it happens Brisbane was pretty clouded out this morning so no loss. Wouldn't mind taking part in any future such World Wide amateur collaboration though - nice to be part of something bigger.

Onya DP, you're looking good:thumbsup:

[davidpretorius]

:mad2: :(

came in to recharge batteries, post the pic at around 1am. Went back out at 2am to get ready for 3.45am.

where did those clouds come from and thick!!!

waited 45minutes and they were not going to budge.

sorry bird, extremely dissapointed that conditions were against us in what is such a great event.

I am excited that we have the skills to be part of some BIG (Hubble no less), but sad that i could not contribute!

[asimov]

No good Ian. Never even got to take the dust covers off the scope. Had the scope outside till just after midnight, but I had an easterly breeze & high thin cloud that got gradually thicker. When I got up this morning, it had been raining for several hours by the looks.

Sorry mate, that was the long version of 'Na! did no good Ian!'..:)

[asimov]

You still got a nice image there Dave. No GRS but we can't be lucky 100% of the time, it would take all the fun out of it! :)

[davidpretorius]

from chris go on CN
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Hello Guys,

This is and tonights the night. Here are the schedule for Hubbles imaging session with the Red Oval BA.

April 16, 2006 18:17-19:06UT

April 17, 2006 03:52-04:45UT

This will be the joint imaging schedule of my group headed by Dr Imke de Pater. I would like to request for HIGH RESOLUTION images during this joint session. I am currently doing a study on how well our amateur images measure with HST. If you have high resolution images please send these to me at: agonggo@hotmail.com (agonggo@hotmail.com)

Regards,
Chris

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so that means we are up again tonight???

03:52-04:45UT + 10 = 1:52 - 2:45 AEST is that right???

[Dennis]

Hi Dave

UT = GMT, therefore 03:52UT + 10 hours = 01:52pm AEST, or 1352hrs AEST, which was approximately 1 hour ago methinks?

Cheers

Dennis

[davidpretorius]

thanks dennis, yes, i have just had the confirm from chris go, this is setup for the other side of the world.

UT, :(, cant everything be tassie time ie nice and slow!!!

[matt]

Poor old DP...

Still can't get that noggin around UT???:lol:

It's OK mate. I wouldn't have a clue about peltiers. All evens out, eh???

[davidpretorius]

UT = UTE without an E!!!

sun is up in day, sun is not up at night!!!

why do they try and complicate me!