Hi all, Another fair session on Jupiter from mt. Giogo on last Saturday night!
For the first time I used the very new RGB filter set by Baader Planetarium which are simply great!
The exposure falled down to 32 msec (my old Edmund Optics filter set never allowed me a faster than 44 msec exposure all being equal) and the color rendition is also very good! No add’l IR blocking filter was used.

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Notice the SEB outbreak and the very dark spot in the STB emerging from the eastern limb.

Thank you for your attention.

Hi all! My ordinary job kept me far for a while from my laptop where some Jupiter stuff were parked in.
Find those here:

JUPITER ON JUNE 28-29
JUPITER ON JULY 10

I could capture the GRS and the LRS a while before and after their encounter.
I noticed the GRS has likely “sucked” the orange tint of the LRS throwing away an anonimous whitish spot.

All the images were captured in my trusty Giogo mountain under acceptable conditions. Fair seeing with very poor transparency on June 28/29, fairly poor seeing with excellent transparency on July 10.

More to follow.
(Hopefully)

Hi all, on June 22 I climbed up to my holy mount Giogo to give the murker Jupiter a try.
Once again, that place gave me a bit of its magic!
The seeing at 24 degree altitude was unbelievably good from there on that night (at the zenith should have been close to 10/10), so I could grab my best Jupiter images since 2006!
If months ago someone would have told me such a result was possible, well, I would have laughed till the bellyache!

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Any way, although setting, the BA oval (GRS Jr) looks like very faded while the small red oval preceding the GRS is very concentrated looking like a ruby.
The usual turbulent tail following the GRS is on a nice display into the SEB.
The NTB is nothing short of beatiful with that green rim running inside!

Now I know miracles are possible somewhere, I think I’ll try Jupiter again on this summer…

Hi all, on June 10 I gave Jupiter my very first attempt this year feeding very little hopes to get some decent image out because its murky altitude from here.
But I had an unexpectedly good seeing on that morning when the sky was getting brighter and brighter and the planet was falling down to 22 degs.
Transparency was poor given the 95% ground umidity turning Jupiter into a yellowish star.

Here you can find the image:

The tricoloured NTB is nothing short of amazing indeed at these longitudes! I never noticed such a beatiful revival so far!

Hope to have more opportunities like this one over next summer.

Hi all,

It should be imaged here the Circulating Current under the classical
poor seeing:

Hi all,

I couldn’t wait any longer for giving a new camera of mine a try with
Jupiter.
Visually, the seeing was scary and measurable in the Richter scale only.

But the result I could get out with this ultra clean and sensitive
ICX285AL sensor was impressive nonetheless!
The R filter also helped a lot in mitigating the strong turbulence.
I expect great results later on the Moon.

The image here shows the GRS setting sequence.

More to follow.

Hi all,

I was able to capture a small collection of Jupiter images in mediocre
conditions over 4 following evenings.

Here (July 26) is noticed a weird curl on the southern border of the
vanished SEB.

More to follow.

Hi all,

Here another image of Jupiter under poor seeing conditions.

To be noticed, the turbulent tail of the GRS and an hint of the NNTB (if
I’m not mistaken) here imaged as a yellowish segment.

Hi all,

In our forever sunny but unsteady summer, myself and my friend Nicola
decided to move our targets toward Milky Way nebulae to give a new
camera of mine some preliminary test.

But on July 19, waiting for the darkness falling over his 250mm
newtonian scope, we had an unexpectedly pleasant view of the usually
“milky” gas giant here placed at 23 degs.
We were lucky enough to have some ‘hires imaging hardware’ with
ourselves, so we could grab some interesting stuff.
I could as well test a colorized VGA sensor based camera of mine.

Here’s the result:

I’m not sure I could have more luck in the future…

Altra immagine del gigante gassoso, stavolta con le solite schifide
condizioni di seeing. Ottima trasparenza sui 1500 metri del Giogo.

Da notare la zona turbolenta che segue da vicino la GRS particolarmente
rossa e un accenno delle NNTB (se non erro) che qui appare come un esile
filamento giallastro.

Qualche artefatto circolare al lembo purtroppo presente a causa del
basso contrasto che aveva Giove quella sera col cielo ancora chiaro.