I captured a breathtaking image of Jupiter through my telescope
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At the beginning of October 2023 I spent a night doing planetary imaging despite the weather didn’t seem too good with high and thin clouds everywhere.
Well, it turned out to be my best capture of Jupiter in 2023 and probably one of my best images of Jupiter to date!
The Great Red Spot (GRS) is almost at the meridian and you can clearly see the moon Europa and its shadow in transit, bands and zones, and half a dozens of white ovals in the Southern hemisphere. Notably, there is a white outbreak in the clouds to the left of the GRS.
Date: 2023-10-02
Location: My driveway in Richmond Hill (ON)
Scope: Celestron 8 SCT
Mount: Celestron AVX
Camera: ZWO ASI224MC, ZWO ADC (atmospheric dispersion corrector)
Location: My driveway in Richmond Hill (ON)
Scope: Celestron 8 SCT
Mount: Celestron AVX
Camera: ZWO ASI224MC, ZWO ADC (atmospheric dispersion corrector)
Filter: ZWO IR Cut filter
Focuser: Celestron Focus Motor
Software: FireCapture (Best 50% frames from 90sec. video), AutoStakkert!3 (AS!3), Registax, Topaz DeNoise AI, GIMP.
Software: FireCapture (Best 50% frames from 90sec. video), AutoStakkert!3 (AS!3), Registax, Topaz DeNoise AI, GIMP.
Total # Frames: 6998
FPS: 120
Gain: 169
Shutter: 8ms
The final processed image of Jupiter. Plenty of atmospheric details are visible:
- the Great Red Spot (GRS), some dozens of white ovals and some outbreaks in the clouds
- dark-colored belts (North Tropical Belt, North Equatorial Belt, South Equatorial Belt);
- light-colored zones (North Temperate Zone, North Tropical Zone, Equatorial Zone, South Tropical Zone, South Temperate Zone);
- the North Polar Region and the South Polar Region;
- the moon Europa and its dark shadow projected on Jupiter. A hypotethical inhabitant of Jupiter, situated where the moon Europa shadow passes in front of the the planet, could experience a solar eclipse every 3.5 days!
I also used PIPP to make an animation of Europa and its shadow transiting on Jupiter, from 2:12 to 4:00 UT.
