Jupiter Images-Page 2
Jupiter is a terrific subject for amateur imaging.  The four satellites are always in motion, and often put on quite a show.  You can see the moons cast a shadow on the face of Jupiter, disappear and reappear as they move in front of and behind the planet or in and out of Jupiter's shadow.  Jupiter itself also put on a show.  The cloud bands are constantly changing.  You can see these changes with a scope as small as an 8" if you have good seeing.  The Great Red Spot (GRS) will move completely across the face of the planet in about 2 hours.  You can easily see the GRS in an 8" scope and can often see it in a 6" scope.   I've not seen it in a scope smaller that 6", but it may be possible to if seeing is excellent, and the GRS is nice and dark.

 
 
Scope:   8" LX 200 SCT
MX-5C CDD 
This image was taken on 1 Jan 00 with a 3X barlow lens to provide a focal ratio of f30.  Seeing conditions were not very good, but the image does shows streamer coming from the north equatorial belt.  Focal Ratio:  f30
Exposure:  0.75 sec
Scope:  8" LX 200 SCT
MX-5C CCD Camera
Jupiter Animation showing Io, GRS and Shadow rotate, taken 27-28 Nov 99. 

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Click here to download a list of all Jupiter Moon events for the year 2002 through 2004.  The zipped file contains the data in a comma separated variable (CSV) format.

Focal Ratio: f20
Exposure: 23 frames @ 0.25 sec
Scope:  8" LX 200 SCT
MX-5C CCD Camera
Jupiter Animation showing Io emerging from Eclipse and the GRS taken 20 Nov 99.

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 Focal Ratio: f20
Exposure: 22 frames @ 0.25 sec

My second image of Jupiter of the year 2000.  The first was taken on Jan 1 above.  The seeing conditions were much better for this f30 image and it is one of my best. 

Click here for a short animation of this image (113K file)

 Scope:  8" LX 200 SCT
MX-5C CCD Camera
Focal Ratio: f30
Exposure: 0.08 sec
Scope:  8" LX 200 SCT
MX-5C CCD Camera
Focal Ratio: f30
This is from the same image series as above, except it has different processing.  Colors were synthesized in AstroArt and a maximum entropy deconvolution was performed on the luminance file in MaxImDL.  The images were then combined and final color adjustments were made in Photoshop.  I've posted both to show the effects of different processing and to keep from having to decide which I like best.
Exposure: 0.08 sec

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