Jupiter June 27

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

First Jupiter image in a while... this was taken this morning when the ambient temp was close to -4C, the scope was covered in frost - I'll post some images of that later...

cheers, Bird

[SkyViking (Rolf)]

Thats a great image Anthony, very crisp! Those small dark storms in the SEB seems to keep hanging around. Very interesting.

[mswhin63 (Malcolm)]

Very nice image love the detail, must have some very smooth air in your area to capture such sharp images.

[Matt Wastell (Matt)]

Super image Bird!
Jupiter looks bare missing one of the eq bands!

[Troy]

nice image Anthony.
I thought it was cold here but -4 wow

[RobF (Rob)]

Just wonderful......
I needed a Jupiter fix!

[michaellxv (Michael)]

What an amazingly clear image. So much detail all over to look at.

[Clayton]

Lovely image Anthony. Loads of detail.

[desler]

-4 Ambient?

Now that's dedication! Well done Anthony!

Darren

[danielsun]

Another fine detailed Image there Bird!! Sharp and crisp!!!

Cheers Daniel.

[Jen]

beautiful pic Bird but there's something missing.......
theres no fireball in this one

[DavidU (Dave)]

Detail city !
Very nice indeed Anthony.

[firstlight (Tony)]

Great image Anthony...

Just can't get the motivation to get up early... and need the day job too much to be able to stay up long enough

[Lester]

Very nice detailed image Anthony. Thanks for the view.

[RobF (Rob)]

I was just wondering what the CMI, CMII and CMIII values in your image represent Anthony?

[h0ughy (David)]

great detail Anthony - nice work

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Thanks all for the kind comments. Rob here's an excerpt from the wikipedia page on Jupiter about the different longitude systems:

"Because Jupiter is not a solid body, its upper atmosphere undergoes differential rotation. The rotation of Jupiter's polar atmosphere is about 5 minutes longer than that of the equatorial atmosphere; three systems are used as frames of reference, particularly when graphing the motion of atmospheric features. System I applies from the latitudes 10° N to 10° S; its period is the planet's shortest, at 9h 50m 30.0s. System II applies at all latitudes north and south of these; its period is 9h 55m 40.6s. System III was first defined by radio astronomers, and corresponds to the rotation of the planet's magnetosphere; its period is Jupiter's official rotation"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter#Orbit_and_rotation

the cm1,cm2 and cm3 values are the longitude of the central meridian (ie the north-south line as we look at the planet) in each of these systems.

cheers, Bird

[RobF (Rob)]

Thanks Bird

[Quark (Trevor)]

Superb image Bird, lovely crisp detail and processed to perfection.

Hope you get some more opportunities before your trip.

Regards
Trevor

[Paul Haese]

Cracker of an image Anthony. Would love some seeing or better still some cloudless nights.