Hi all
3rd morning in a row capturing Jupiter, and finally the conditions were favourable. I hadn't set up the scope but just as I was about to leave for work, the clouds that were there earlier parted and the stars were very steady. So I quickly set up the scope, no cooldown time but luckily I was able to capture most data before the temperatures dropped too much.
These 3 images were captured very close together so there's not a lot of difference between them - the clouds returned at 6am so my whole imaging window was only 25 minutes - 10 minutes of that was setup time and getting Jupiter on the chip of DMK
The GRS looks rather interesting, with some material seeming to be trailing behind it. It also looks rather orange, but I remember thinking the same thing early in last years season. Red Junior (LRS) looks like it will have another meeting with the GRS this year as it did in 2006, and it actually looks a bit smaller than it did in 2007 - though a higher resolution view at the CM is needed to confirm.
There seems to be some activity at the NEBn/NTropZ region, and the NTB looks quite an interesting colour.
Taken with a 12" newt, DMK21AU04 + 5x powermate.
Thanks for looking.
Jupiter + GRS in good seeing
