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Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet within the Solar System. It is two and a half times as massive as all of the other planets in our Solar System combined. Jupiter is classified as a gas giant, along with Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Together, these four planets are sometimes referred to as the Jovian planets, where Jovian is the adjectival form of Jupiter.

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Jupiter and Ganymede

Friday, March 10th 2017 - 06:40 (UTC) - focal ratio f/16

First remote observation using 1 meter Chilescope in.. eh.. Chile

The animation is in IR685. The seeing was mostly poor, but as usual the very last recording was the best and showed some nice details.

equipment used
ZWO ASI174MM

Jupiter in CH4

Friday, March 25th 2016 - 23:50 (UTC) - focal ratio f/20

Imaged with the ASI224 and a ZWO methane filter. More images taken during this session should follow. The seeing wasn't very good unfortunately, but methane @ 889nm is relatively unaffected.

equipment used
40 cm Dobson made by Rik ter Horst
ZWO ASI224

Jupiter

Monday, March 14th 2016 - 00:06 (UTC) - focal ratio f/25

Jupiter under pretty good seeing conditions.

Lots of derotation of image stacks in WinJupos (and manual recombination of the best parts in Photoshop). It's nice to have good S/N to work with.

full resolution

equipment used
40 cm Dobson made by Rik ter Horst
ZWO ASI174MM

Jupiter

Monday, January 18th 2016 - 02:30 (UTC) - focal ratio f/25

Reasonable seeing for Jupiter.

And an anmiation in CH4 light using the ZWO CH4 filter. Unfortunately the seeing was much worse when I made recordings in CH4...

The little bright dot on the right is Europa.

equipment used
40 cm Dobson made by Rik ter Horst
ZWO ASI174MM

Jupiter

Monday, December 28th 2015 - 05:42 (UTC) - focal ratio f/25

Jupiter, with Europa and Io. Last time I had some troubles with the standard USB3 cable, but I replaced it with a high quality USB3 cable of 5m, and this seems to work very well!

equipment used
40 cm Dobson made by Rik ter Horst
ZWO ASI174MM

Jupiter and Io

Monday, April 06th 2015 - 18:18 (UTC) - focal ratio f/25

Jupiter and Io under pretty good seeing conditions!

Lots of work to combine a couple of data sets without destroying the shadow...

I also processed a recording of Ganymede I made this same evening, along with a simulated view using the JPL Solar System Simulator


Animation in red light:

equipment used
40 cm Dobson made by Rik ter Horst
ZWO ASI174MM

Jupiter

Sunday, March 22nd 2015 - 20:58 (UTC) - focal ratio f/25

Hurray for good seeing!

There should be some more data sets here that were pretty good, but this RGB set was definitely one of the best of the evening. Transparancy was rather poor with high altitude clouds.

equipment used
40 cm Dobson made by Rik ter Horst
ZWO ASI174MM

Jupiter

Sunday, March 22nd 2015 - 19:18 (UTC) - focal ratio f/30

Oval BA is nicely visible here. I combined several datasets to get this image using WinJupos and some work in photoshop.

equipment used
40 cm Dobson made by Rik ter Horst
ZWO ASI174MM

Jupiter

Saturday, February 07th 2015 - 00:21 (UTC) - focal ratio f/15

Imaged during 'ok' seeing conditions (6-7/10), but my best image this opposition, and actually imaged just 7 hours after opposition!

equipment used
40 cm Dobson made by Rik ter Horst
ZWO ASI120MM

Jupiter

Saturday, January 17th 2015 - 03:19 (UTC) - focal ratio f/15

Very cool double transit of Io and Europa! Io is the pinkish dot (with darker poles) near the center of Jupiter (the shadow of Io to the left). Europa is at the right of Jupiter (shadow near the edge). Notice that the shadow of Europa is fuzier than the one of Io!

5/10 seeing .. or something like that

equipment used
40 cm Dobson made by Rik ter Horst
ZWO ASI120MM
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