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Jupiter

 

03-04-04 11:00 pm

j2.jpg (60951 bytes)

01-10-04 4:00 am

juprgbl-io.jpg (259611 bytes)

Each avi shot for 1 minute at 10 fps.  The dark spot is Io's shadow.  Seems that Jupiter rotates very fast.  Shot with a 2x barlow and 45mm in extensions between camera and barlow.

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12-28-03 4:00 am

jup5-tri.jpg (74777 bytes)jup3-50-st-ps.jpg (66957 bytes)

The Great Red Spot clearly visible (the orange spot).  Shot with an additionalal 45mm spacer between camera and barlow.  Image on the right is from a few minutes earlier than the left.  It also only has the 50 sharpest frames out of 298 for each color.  Images at 2x actual size.

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12-27-03 3:00 am

jup4-tri.jpg (94099 bytes)

Callisto and Io to the left.  298 frames of red, green and blue (1 min @ 5fps x 3).  Captured in Astrovideo.  25 frames of each color stacked in Registax.  Merged in Photoshop. 

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12-19-03 4:00 am

jup-tri1.jpg (56268 bytes)

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11-23-03 3:00 am

jupmoons.JPG (12095 bytes)

Jupiter at magnitude -2.0, 35.3 arcseconds in diameter, about 5.5 times further from Earrth than Earth is from the sun.

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3-10-03

612a.jpg (10036 bytes)

 

Taken with an Olympus 4000 (which has since been stolen), Scopetronix adapter, Celestron 25mm plossl and 2x barlow.  A Moon's shadow, grs, etc.