iceman
20-02-2008, 08:28 AM
A month or so ago, Dave Pretorius and I agreed to post all of our Jupiter's this season, no matter what the seeing :) He kicked it off yesterday with a great start, and here's mine from this morning.
Finally we had a clear night all night last night.. of course the almost full moon stopped any chance of deep-space imaging, and by this morning a fog had rolled in. A jetstream and the low altitude ruined any chance of a detailed image, but here it is anyway.
Scientifically ;), it proves that Jupiter is still round, still has the north and south equatorial belts, red junior (the little red spot) is still there, the blue barge is still there, and Europa still orbits Jupiter.
It's all there on the image, you just need to look very carefully :) The view actually looked better through the eyepiece than this final image. The 1st image was taken through some fog so transparency was very poor, but it had cleared a little for the 2nd image. Both were taken at 15fps (1/15s exposure).
Europa and its shadow are in transit - Europa can't be seen due to the poor resolution, but the shadow can just be seen as a spread of dark pixels below the NEB on the left hand side of the image. The blue barge is just before the CM on the 2nd image, and Red Jr has just passed the CM on the 2nd image.
Anyway, first one down.. hopefully many more to come (and hopefully a little better than this).
Finally we had a clear night all night last night.. of course the almost full moon stopped any chance of deep-space imaging, and by this morning a fog had rolled in. A jetstream and the low altitude ruined any chance of a detailed image, but here it is anyway.
Scientifically ;), it proves that Jupiter is still round, still has the north and south equatorial belts, red junior (the little red spot) is still there, the blue barge is still there, and Europa still orbits Jupiter.
It's all there on the image, you just need to look very carefully :) The view actually looked better through the eyepiece than this final image. The 1st image was taken through some fog so transparency was very poor, but it had cleared a little for the 2nd image. Both were taken at 15fps (1/15s exposure).
Europa and its shadow are in transit - Europa can't be seen due to the poor resolution, but the shadow can just be seen as a spread of dark pixels below the NEB on the left hand side of the image. The blue barge is just before the CM on the 2nd image, and Red Jr has just passed the CM on the 2nd image.
Anyway, first one down.. hopefully many more to come (and hopefully a little better than this).