Hi all, Another new image of Jupiter, now showing the impact spot slowly approaching to the GRS:

JUPITER JULY 29

Fair seeing and very excellent transparency at mt. Giogo 1500 meters elevation.
More to follow.

  Hi all, Another new image of Jupiter, now showing another dark spot caused by Io transit:

JUPITER JULY 28

Seeing very poor with some decent stability happened during this capture.
More to follow.

Hi all, I could finally give my sabbatical year an end when I learned about Anthony’s discovery and I couldn’t resist any more to put my hands on Jupiter!

On July 27 I had a nice opportunity to grab the impact area under decent seeing through an IR pass filter:

JUPITER JULY 27

This is my first decent image out in 1 year!

The impact area was very evident at the eyepiece and looks like a solarspot with 2 well condensed nucleii rather than a single dark spot strecthed by the local jetstream.
I’d like to hear your comment.

Alas, I couldn’t take a color RGB image due to the quickly falling stability happened a while after.

This image was grabbed with a Gladius telescope on loan by a customer of mine for an important upgrade.

More to follow.
(hopefully)

Hi all, my jovian season has been closed on August 3rd because of the regular poor seeing here from that night on.
But I could capture the southern gas giant for a whole week at that time, find here below any image.

JUPITER JUL. 28
JUPITER JUL. 29
JUPITER JUL. 31
JUPITER AUG. 2
JUPITER AUG. 3

Of course, the planet was always in its murky low 20s. Sorry for my late posting but this is actually the best I could do lately.
Thank you for your patience.

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.

IMAGE

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!

IMAGE

Be sure of expanding the reduced version delivered by your browser to look at the original size.

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.