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In the 2006 apparition, Jupiter appeared very low in the sky from the northern hemisphere. From 52 degrees north, where I live, it is approximately 20 degrees at its highest. This means that the atmospheric conditions are very poor compared with when the planet is high in the sky, making it very difficult to gather good images of it. Additionally its low elevation places it behind various obstacles from my observing location for much of the time.
In any case this page shows my images of Jupiter and its satellites for this period. Click the images to see full-sized ones. |
31 May, 2006 - Jupiter with Io shadow transit and other satellites
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On this night the seeing was quite good at times and I captured a number of AVIs with my ToUCam Pro attached to the 250mm Newtonian telescope with a 2x Barlow lens. As usual the camera had an IR blocker filter attached.
This image is the result of stacking 300 frames from an AVI of approximately 1900. They were captured for just over 2 minutes at 15 fps. It shows reasonable detail on the planet, albeit not the Red Spot nor the recently named "Red Jr" (Oval BA) and the shadow of Io can be seen clearly crossing the planetary disk, and Europa and Callisto are shown in the same view. CLICK THE IMAGE TO SEE IT FULL SIZE |
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3 June, 2006 - Jupiter with Europa
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I captured a few AVIs of the planet on 3 June using my Celestron C8 telescope with a 2x Barlow lens. This was the best of them. It is the result of stacking 300 frames from 1500 captured at 15 fps.
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