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Chrissyo
15-05-2005, 06:42 PM
Well, as most of you are aware, my pictures of Jupiter are not very exciting HOWEVER...

This ones no different. (hehe, got you all worked up:P )

I did however manage to capture something strange about the planet. It only has four primary (ie. visible) moons does it not? Tonight when I observed it (at about 6.30 or so) I found 5 moon like objects around it. Seeing as I don't own one of them spiffy programs that can zoom right up to Jupiter, I can't tell if it was a background star, or perhaps another moon in an optimum position.

Its in black and white because I used my video camera's 'night vision' mode to capture the light better (the picture is slightly blurred because the photobutton on my camera has to be pushed all the way down to take a picture.)

Astroman
15-05-2005, 08:21 PM
Looks like you caught a star. Details below.

TYC 4948-1342-1
Visual magnitude: 6.95
Spectral type: F5
Distance: 152 +/- 6 light years
Luminosity: 2.92 +/- 0.23 x Sun's luminosity

Position information for 15 May 2005 7:44:54 PM
(Julian day number 2453505.92701)

Apparent RA (epoch of date): 12h 37m 23.89s
Apparent Dec (epoch of date): -2° 21' 10.5"
Constellation: Virgo

Image below made with skymap pro 8

http://www.theastroweb.com/astronomy/temp/jupiterstar.jpg

h0ughy
15-05-2005, 11:18 PM
good call.

ving
16-05-2005, 09:35 AM
keep hunting chrissy. I did the same thing earlier in the year thinking I found another moon. I think the next brightest moon is mag 11 or 13 but is really small.

67champ
17-05-2005, 04:44 AM
I had picked up five on May 14th as well,.. lets just not even discuss santa claus, tooth fairy or the easter bunny, ok? lol