I had some nice clear skies on the night of the 14th August, 2009 – when Jupiter was at opposition for the 2009 season. Being at opposition means the Sun, Earth and Moon form a straight line – and Jupiter is at its closest point to Earth in its orbit around the Sun, and it [...]
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Jupiter, GRS and Wesley Impact Scar – 24th July
After breaking the news of Anthony Wesley’s discovery of an impact scar on Jupiter on Monday morning (while I was waiting to board a plane to Melbourne), Friday night was my first opportunity to capture an image of the now famous “Wesley Impact Scar”, or “Bird Strike” (Anthony’s forum name is “bird”). The image above [...]
Jupiter, GRS and NEB Upheaval Animation
Captured on the 23rd June (local time), this animation represents 3 hours of rotation on Jupiter, as the Great Red Spot (quite a bit paler this year) transits across the face of the gas giant. Also visible, down lower on the NEB, is the new “NEB Upheaval” – a series of new spots and disturbances [...]
Jupiter, GRS and NEB outbreak – June 23
Hi all Finally – the first clear night in weeks and my first imaging opportunity since May 25! I’ve got loads of data to process, but I wanted to quickly process this one and get it out there because a) I won’t get much time to process many more images in the next day or [...]
From the Vault: Jupiter and Callisto Transit Animation
In the From the Vault series, I feature an older image which hasn’t been seen here before and I talk about the capture and processing and hopefully highlight why this image is special to me. The feature image in From the Vault this week is an image and animation of Jupiter with Callisto in transit. Captured [...]
Jupiter, GRS and Europa – 13th May
This image of Jupiter, featuring the GRS at mid-transit and Europa on the left which had just finished tranist, was captured on Wednesday morning, 13th May in average seeing. Jupiter was still at a reasonably low 49° altitude when this shot was taken (first of the session), but unfortunately the seeing only got worse with [...]
Jupiter from this morning, 24th April 2009
First clear morning in a week, finally able to image Jupiter again. I was hoping for nice seeing as fog was predicted and one of the coolest mornings so far leading into Winter. The seeing was only average though, slightly better than it has been lately which is an encouraging sign. I caught the tail [...]
Jupiter from the 16th and 17th of April
The run of terrible seeing continues along the East Coast of Australia, as these Jupiter images were captured last week in less than average seeing on the 16th and 17th of April, 2009. The first image shows the GRS and the second image shows the NEB outbreak. [image:964:c:l=p:T][image:963:c:l=p:T] Not too much else to report – [...]
The Best Jupiter Image this Year, plus more from Down Under
I captured a new Jupiter image this morning (unfortunately in only 4/10 seeing), finally getting to see the GRS for the first time this season. It’s definitely paler than last year! As I was processing my image, Lester Barnes from South Australia posted his image from this morning on IceInSpace – and it’s easily the [...]
Jupiter Back in our Morning Sky for Season 2009
Jupiter is my favourite planet to take photos of, so it’s getting to the exciting time of the year now when Jupiter is gracing our morning skies again and will soon be high enough to point my telescope at and start capturing images. It’s currently at about 10° altitude at approx 6am from mid-southern latitudes, [...]
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