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Jupiter, the Jovian System
SEASON 2012-2013
December 2013
January 13
At last some decent pics with the new C11 telescope
First decent image with my new C11 telescope november 16th, 2012.
And these are the first images of the 2012-2013 season. Below still with the Maksutov, which proves to be exceptionally powerfull for it's rather small aperture. While most observers use 10 inch or larger, this telescope is only 7".
Morning of October 24th, with good conditions. Ganymede's shadow on the planet:
A picture of the giant planet with the famous Great Red Spot (who gets a bit of competition of another Red Spot below). Taken the morning of September 7th 2012.
September 4, 2012 with very good seeing conditions
SEASON 2011-2012
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Very nice seeing moments on January 16th.
A late Jupiter on January 12th, 2012. The seeing looked promising, however turned out to be average. ALso the transparancy was low, which resulted in a low frame rate hence decreased S/R results. Nevertheless, we cannot show only perfect results.Size of the planet has decreased meanwhile to 41,6 arc-seconds. So here it is:
A unique picture of Jupiter with the Red Spot and a moon shadow of Io on top of it. Taken by Olivier Bonameau with a C8 Schmidt-Cassegrain / webcam Barlow 2x on the night of January 8th 2012 from Meldert, Hoegaarden.
Best conditions of the season on the evening of November 20th.
All images with the Skywatcher Mak180, iNova and Baader RGB. F 37,5
 
The night of October 31th - November 1th gave fair seeing conditions.
The picture below is a different processing then the one on the right. It's actually my best image of this season and shows remarkable detail. The moon Ganymedes (5268km diameter, larger then Mercury) shows some albedo and also you can notice the right side of the moon is not a perfect circle.
Same night, this picture is in Infrared. And below RGB a bit later in the night with worse seeing.
A Jupiter image taken with the Red filter only.
October 28, 21hr16UT
RGB Picture October 26, 21hr24UT
An infrared shot. This is usually taken because the seeing conditions are not optimal. Lots of detail is visible. October 26th, 21hr19 UT.
22 October 2011, 22hr43 UT. This is actually one of the first color pictures taken through the iNova Pla-Mx Black/White camera. This is done using Baader RGB Filters. Three pictures taken through a Red, Green and Blue filter are combined in one color-shot.
Jupiter in Infrared (IR Pass) October 22nd, 23hr13 UT
An IR Pass picture, taken the evening of September 30 with the 180mm Maksutov. Seeing conditions at that time still moderate.
TV Powermate 2,5x iNova PLa-MX
A bit on the dark side, this picture was taken with a Skywatcher 250mm F/4.7 Newtonian of Luc Debeck. A TeleVue 5x Powermate was apllied as well as an IR pass filter. 30/9/2011
The IR Pass filter only passes the InfraRed part of the spectrum. Visually it is almost black. The IR is not affected as much by moderate seeïng as the visual part of the spectrum. The results are astonishing. But also the patterns visible on the planet are different to what you can see in the visual range.
First light for the iNova PLa-MX camera. Actually in the F/15 focal plane of the Maksutov due to very moderate seeïng conditions.
Picture taken 29/09/2011 at 2hr15UT.
Jupiter 16/09/2011 at 3hr17 UT in the morning. Skywatcher Maksutov TV Powermate Philips Webcam using Registax6. Moon Europa is projecting a shadow just under the Great Red Spot (GRS).
Jupiter 10/09/2011 at 2hr12 UT in the morning. Skywatcher Maksutov TV Powermate Philips Webcam using Registax6.
Jupiter 2/09/2011 at 1hr46 UT in the morning. Skywatcher Maksutov TV Powermate Philips Webcam using Registax6. Io emerging from behind the planet. This time also the red spot is visible
Jupiter 1/09/2011 at 2hr34 UT in the morning. Skywatcher Maksutov TV Powermate Philips Webcam using Registax6. Ganymedes emerging from behind the planet.
Jupiter 31/08/2011 at 3hr07 UT in the morning. Skywatcher Maksutov TV Powermate Philips Webcam using Registax6.
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