Hi all,
Find here another image taken on Aug. 22, 2008 as my previous south pole image.
Here’s displayed the south-eastern limb.

SOUTH-EASTERN LIMB - AUG. 22, 2008

More to follow.

Hi all,
After ages since my last lunar image sending, I take the advantage of restarting from a special one grabbed last year (!) showing the Cabeus area which will be tomorrow on the scene thanks to the LCROSS mission which scheduled that area for their probe crashing.
You can see Cabeus filled with shadow in the top-center side of my image, very close to the limb.

On that far night (Aug. 22, 2008) I had a quite favourable libration but poor seeing with some nice momenth though.

SOUTH POLE - AUG. 22, 2008

Let’s europeans sit down and look what NASA will get back from the impact.

  Hi all,

Another magic dropped here on September 30 when I imaged Jupiter at just 29 degrees altitude!!
Once again, I was located at 1200 meter altitude where the air bottom layers are causing much less degradation.
Very good seeing through the red filter, less consistent as always through G and B which are usually suffering with the Jup’s low altitude.

JUPITER SEPTEMBER 30

Notice the weird dark red “cat’s paw” feature on the NEB f limb, the spiral-shaped structure of the GRS whose internal arm looks as greenish and the weaker SEB.

Both the 2 images displayed here were processed at the same exact way and both do confirm any detail revealed.

More to follow.

Hi all,

Mediocre seeing and excellent transparency over that night from mt Giogo, surely the worst one I had from up there.
Note the dark-green line running inside the NTB.

JUPITER SEPTEMBER 29

More to follow.

Hi all,
Find here below all my Jupiter images I’ve captured over last two months in different sites.
From my home and mt. Giogo:

JUPITER AUG 14
JUPITER AUG 15
JUPITER AUG 17

From Pantelleria island, in different sites according to the wind direction to avoid orographical turbulence:

JUPITER AUG 24
JUPITER AUG 25
JUPITER AUG 30
JUPITER AUG 31
JUPITER SEPT 1
JUPITER SEPT 2
JUPITER SEPT 3
JUPITER SEPT 4

Ending up with my very last shot grabbed on Apuanian mountains a few days ago:

JUPITER SEPT 23

Please note, just 2 shots out of 12 were taken at my home!
Hope you were pleased with my images and could be of some help.

Hi everybody,
Last August was an unexpectedly productive month despite the low altitude of Jupiter from Italy!
I could record at the end an amazing amount of 14 sessions with a decent seeing at least!
I also spent a 2 weeks holiday in a wonderful vulcanic island called Pantelleria lying in the strait of Sicily half way between Sicily and Tunisia, at 36.7N latitude, together with my trusty Gladius which could deliver some nice view of Jupiter climbing up to 37 degs.
You can learn more about this island through the Wikipedia or other related websites:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantelleria

Due to the steady windy conditions (Pantelleria is the italian of the arab ‘Bent el Riah‘ which means ‘daughter of the winds’) and orography (a 836m tall mountain and other hills are there) seeing conditions were heavily affected by wind direction, thus I moved myself around several sites of the island to look for the best conditions accordingly.
The sky was nothing short the best I could see so far in my life, expecially at the top of the tallest mountain! Unbelievable Milky Way, Jupiter was even casting a weak shadow from up there! Shame on me I had no dobsonian to play with!

The complete set of images will follow over next few days, meantime you can enjoy with a trilogy of images which do portrait the 3 most important features going on the gas giant: the impact scar remnant during opposition, the GRS and the BA Oval.

JUPITER 2009 TRILOGY

Just be sure to expand the view up to 100% with your browser.

The first image is surprisingly good despite the quite low altitude of the planet, this leaves very good expectations since next year when Jupiter will finally climbs in the high 40s from here!

The NEB is nothing short of amazing given its own metamorphosis from a longitude to another. At the contrary, the boring SEB always look the same at any longitude and it’s even missing of the usual turbulent ovals train which used to follow the GRS over last years.

To follow, detailed images with datas filled in.
Thank you for your viewing!

Hi all. This is my first Venus image since 2 years and 2 months from now!

VENUS AUG. 14

The bright patch in the SE limb firstly noticed by Frank Melillo on last July is also displayed here together other bright and dark patches.

More to follow.

Hi all. I was able to grab a nice moon ballet going on Jupiter last night among unbelievable difficulties!

JUPITER AUG. 12

Too bad so many negative circumstances prevented me to grab any color image!

More to follow.

Hi all. Find here a couple of images recorded on August 8 and 9 under mediocre conditions.
Nothing of relevant to report.

JUPITER AUG. 8

JUPITER AUG. 9

More to follow.

Hi all, a new Jupiter session was grabbed through the IR band only due to the very short spell of good seeing happened last night.
When switching to the RGB setup, the seeing unexpectedly falled to very poor.

JUPITER AUG. 7
The BA oval (Red Spot Jr) left the CM, please note the nice activity all way around the south polar region.
More to follow.