Quick conversion to 3D with new pipeline and rendered with Blender Cycles with "camera" positioned at middle frame
producing equirectangular 16-bit PNG at 45.51 pix/deg.

P18_23_23

P18_24_24

P18_25_25

P18_26_26

A couple first passes on Perijove 18


Jupiter - PJ18-25



Jupiter - PJ18-26



Jupiter - PJ18-20



Jupiter from the North - PJ18-20/26

Thank you Kevin for pointing out on Twitter that JunoCAM got a look at Io on this pass. Here is my quick take:

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Image time: 2019-02-12T14:15:02.370. Distance: 278,217 km

The Chalybes Regio plume is still visible along the terminator. here is a simulated view from Cosmographia:

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Thanks for telling me that the Chalybes Regio plume was there! To be safe, I tend to assume that type of pixel-sized anomaly are artifacts of my processing pipeline. I went and processed it from the raw to bring out the plume. Quick process and applied heavy sharpening.


Io with Chalybes Plume - PJ18-6

Here is a link to PJ18 drafts, part 1.
Here according reprojections of the rgb images, almost illumination adjusted, and stretched with gamma=4.
Versions with gamma=1, and just decompanded and square-root encoded (gamma = 0.5).

I'll upload five JPG images of the gamma=5.

#20, #23, #24:
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#25:
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and #26:
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There seems to be a new bright hot pixel, distinctly visible in #20 of this version with my previous hot pixel mask.

Two more shots from Perijove 18 approach..


Jupiter - PJ18-24



Jupiter - PJ18-23

Processed versions of #029 and #031 using Gerald's draft pipeline.


Polar Jet N6 and Cyclone - Perijove 18


Brown Barge - Perijove 18

Nice. Is that "The Brown Barge" or A brown barge. I'm a bit new to this nomenclature.

Great example of cyclonic updraft, then high altitude shear. The Solar System's biggest anvil cloud. Don't tell the tornado chasers, somebody will get hurt.

"Barge" is the observer's term for any elongated dark cloud. "The" brown barge was a similar feature in the North Equatorial Belt. Given recent trends in Jupiter's weather patterns, there is a good chance we see several develop this year.

Here is a link to those drafts.
And here a link to an almost illumination-adjusted version, with subsequent gamma stretch.

I'll upload the according JPGs, with the portion exceeding 180 degrees cropped.
#28:
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#29:
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#30:
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#31:
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#32, #33:
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#34, #35:
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#36, and #37:
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One image, #27, is lacking in this sequence due to a small temporary data gap during downlink. I'd presume, that it will be provided with the next release of raw images.

I may render a reprojected and illumination-adjusted version with gamma=1, and a merely decompanded and square-root encoded version of PJ18, part 2, later tonight.

From Gerald's latest ...

PJ18_26


PJ18_29

Decompanded-only version with square-root encoding, and illumination-adjusted version with gamma=1 (radiometrically linear) of PJ18, part 2.

Seán, your compilations are again masterpieces beyond our world!

Ah thank you so much Gerald, of course they wouldn't exist without your fantastic work so I am very lucky to have such great foundations to build on.

A couple more Perijove 18 shots using my pipeline:


Jupiter - PJ18-28


Jupiter - PJ18-29


Jupiter - PJ18-29 - Detail


Jupiter - PJ18-30


Jupiter - PJ18-31


Jupiter - PJ18-32


Jupiter - Mr. Hankey Brown Barge Mosaic - Perijove 18

And...


Jupiter - PJ18-33


Jupiter - PJ18-34


Jupiter - PJ18-35

Partial glimpse of the western Great Red Spot:


Jupiter - PJ18-41

PJ18_31 after Gerald

Processed version of Gerald's #041 draft image:


Great Red Spot and South Equatorial Belt - Juno Perijove 18

And a couple of enlarged crops:

These are mind-wreckingly beautiful - best perijove yet! Congratulations all.

A few selections from PJ18 departure including two composites.


Jupiter - PJ18-42



Jupiter - PJ18-45



Jupiter - PJ18-45/47/49



Jupiter - PJ18-49



Jupiter - PJ18-47



Jupiter - Western Great Red Spot - PJ18-41/42

A sampling of my PJ18 images processed with Juno3D/Blender pipeline using new gain/bias masks. Equirectangular projection from point-of-view of middle frame, 225°x90° FOV, 45.51 pixels/degree, 16-bit PNG with sRGB curve encoded linear light.

CP18_24_16_1

CP18_27_18_1

CP18_29_19_1

CP18_30_20_1

CP18_31_20_1

CP18_32_20_1

CP18_34_21_1

CP18_41_19_1

CP18_45_14_1

CP18_49_11_1

More images available in the Album on Flickr https://flic.kr/s/aHskNE8czK

PJ18_42-43-45 reprojected from Gerald's output


PJ18_42-43 reprojected from Gerald's output

I don't think I've ever seen a detached stream so large and so red before. Something unusual going on in the GRS.

I had my first decent look of the season at Jupiter yesterday. Ground-based observations in support of Juno will be at the higher levels of quality over the next few months.

I think, it's time to provide a list of links to pages with PJ18 products I've uploaded thus far

flyby movie:
- YouTube
- MP4 movie, MP4 scenes, and JPG stills.

maps:
- gamma=1
- gamma=4
- high-passed in a context-sensitive way

OBJ 3D templates for equidistant plantocentric maps (preliminary Maclaurin spheroids)

reprojected:
gamma=1, and decompanded only:
- part 5 (with tentative OBJ files)
- part 4 (with tentative OBJ files)
- part 3
- part 2
- part 1

gamma=4:
- parts 4+5:
- - version with illumination model based on PJ16, stricter filter for energetic particle hits
- - version with illumination model based on PJ06, lax filter for energetic particle hits
- part 3 (with tentative OBJ files)
- part 2
- part 1 (revision 1) (with tentative OBJ files)
- part 1, initial rendition

drafts:
- part 5
- part 4
- part 3
- part 2
- part 1

More specific, derived, and reduced products are work in progress.

Thanks for all your recent uploads Gerald, lots to process!

I revisted this image from Gerald's output...

Jupiter's Beady Eye

This is an orthographic mosaic from images PJ18_28 and PJ18_29. An approximately true color/contrast version (left) and a version where the contrast has been increased and color differences exaggerated (right):

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The images show a part of Jupiter's northern hemisphere from directly above the roughly circular sport just above the image center. The spot is located at planetographic latitude 51.5 degrees N. North is up.

PJ19 is coming up in a few days and I almost forgot to post this one from PJ18:

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This is an approximately true color/contrast map-projected mosaic of PJ19 images 41, 42 and 43. The mosaic covers an area from longitude 227° to 294° (system 3) and planetographic latitude -34.7° to -7.2°. I took special care not to 'saturate' the very bright convective features west of the Great Red Spot.

And below is an enhanced part of the above image showing the main convective features:

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Small bright clouds that apparently reach high altitude can be seen near the bright part of the convective features.

Jupiter Fly-under Time-lapse | 360° VR, 8K, 60FPS
Imaginary view flying under the clouds in a hollow Jupiter.
https://youtu.be/vBIZrCTwYFo
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A experiment composite using images from PJ7, PJ17, & PJ18. Blending and color match isn't that great, and I lack a real way to equalize the solar luminance.

Equirectangular projection. Manual alignment & blending in Photoshop.

JNCE_2017192_07C00061_V01
JNCE_2018355_17C00035_V01
JNCE_2019043_18C00041_V01
JNCE_2019043_18C00042_V01
JNCE_2019043_18C00044_V01


Jupiter - GRS & Mid-Southern Latitudes - Map Projected

Update to PJ18_26 [GE/SD]