On Saturday night 8th August, I was able to capture some images of Jupiter with Io and its shadow in transit. The seeing was just above average – good enough to capture albedo features on Io, including the dark polar regions in contrast against the cloud tops of Jupiter. The best image from the session [...]
Posts by Tag: Oval BA
Jupiter and Oval BA from July 5th
It’s been a while between posts – I’m currently up on the Sunshine Coast for a work conference, and have finally had a few spare moments to finish off this image. This image was captured on Monday morning, 6th July local time (5th July UT), in slightly above average seeing. It shows Oval BA still [...]
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 and Oval BA, and Venus in False Colour on May 9th
On Saturday morning 9th May we had a beautiful clear morning but only barely above average seeing. I captured Jupiter with Oval BA and the small white spot next to it, and before sunrise I turned my scope towards Venus for the first time this year, and captured the lovely crescent phase in UV light [...]
My Best Jupiter This Year as the Seeing Finally Improves
Well it’s been a long time coming. Usually the seeing at my location is best between February and June, but this year it’s been horrible every day – I’ve been out trying to image Jupiter almost every clear morning for 2 months and have been increasingly discouraged at not having anything better than 5/10 seeing [...]
Jupiter and Io Transit Animation, 21st March 2009
On Sunday morning, I was able to capture my first Jupiter moon transit for the season, with the volcanic moon Io transiting the gas giant. I also took the opportunity to create my first Jupiter animation for the season, hopefully the first of many to come. It was another busy morning (like Friday morning) with an [...]
Jupiter and Oval BA – 19th March 2009
I had a fairly busy morning this morning – knowing that the skies were going to be clear (well, hoping), the waning crescent Moon was well positioned, a bright ISS and STS-119 Discovery pass was going overhead, and then of course Jupiter which is climbing to a manageable 35° altitude before dawn. I managed to [...]
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, [...]
Jupiter, GRS and Ganymede Occultation
New images of Jupiter are always news-worthy, and this is no exception. I received an interesting link on the ALPO_Jupiter yahoo group the other day – it’s a pretty fascinating animation showing Ganymede being occulted by Jupiter. Here’s a still from the movie: Read on to see the animation and to see one of my own [...]
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