Ganymede and Europa

[iceman (Mike)]

Hi guys

This avi was sitting on my hard-drive since the 25th May and I finally got around to processing it. The pairing of Ganymede and Europa were too far away from Jupiter to be imaged or composited together, but they made a fine target on their own.

12" newt, 5x powermate, DMK21AU04, 15fps (1/15s exposure), 1 minute each channel in RGB.

Thanks for looking.

[madtuna (Steve)]

awesome detail on Ganymede

[Lester]

Good shootin Mike, like the images.

Could you find a comparison of Europa also, there is some darkening near the centre on your image.

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Nice work Mike. Maybe one day it'll stop raining :-)

Bird

[Matty P (Matt)]

Simply amazing Mike!

The detail on Ganymede is awesome.

[spearo (Frank)]

WOAH!!!!
You have got to be kidding!
That's amazing! I had no idea this was possible!
well done !
I'm seriously gobsmacked!
frank

[Ric]

Wow, seriously amazing image Mike.

Top stuff

[Deeno]

Amazing result!!!

[AlexN]

its so small... and such a hell of a long way away... I didnt think it would be possible to get any kind of detail... But once again, Mike comes through with the goods!

[iceman (Mike)]

Thanks guys.
Just to clarify in-case I unintentionally misled anyone, the bottom (larger) ganymede is a simulation from the NASA JPL Solar System Simulator.

Europa is out to the right.

[Robert_T]

Mike, this is excellent. How big is Ganymede in arc seconds. If you can pull detail on it then you should be able to follow Mars with decent detail right through it's 2 year cycle... barring seeing and troublesome Sun-type stars

[iceman (Mike)]

Rob, Ganymede is 1.6" (arcseconds) in diameter. And yeh, it would be great to be able to follow Mars through the full cycle but the pesky Sun and low altitude combine to hamper that effort