Jupiter 9th December

[von Tom]

Hi all,

This is my first post here. Firstly, let me apologise to all in Brisbane (and elsewhere) for the weeks of cloudy/rainy weather because I got a Sky Watcher 12" Auto Dobsonian on the 24/11 and it has been cloudy ever since!

That said, I have been able to pick gaps between clouds on a handful of occasions, even if it is during the day!

Here is a shot of Jupiter on the afternoon of 9th December at 4:38pm GMT+10, taken with the 12" and a Canon EOS 550D using the cropped video mode.

Cheers,

Tom

[Clayton]

Not too bad for a first?
I hope you don't mind me adjusting the levels in CS3

[von Tom]

Thanks Clayton, no worries. I've edited my original post to include larger image size. Is it my imagination or can I see a moon on the upper left limb?

Here's a screenshot from Stellarium for the same time.

[von Tom]

And here's an image from later that evening in very poor seeing. Canon EOS 550D with two 1.4x teleconverters, video crop mode, prime focus through a Sky Watcher 12" Dobsonian. Stacked in Registax.

[Clayton]

I think if you look at the image that I adjusted you can see two moons. One upper left (Ganymede) and one lower right a bit further out (Io) (similar to your stellarium image but rotated a bit anticlockwise) :)
Also at about 10 O'Clock the GRS is just starting to disappear from view

[Troy]

Cute looking Jupiter and a good picture :thumbsup: