Contains:  Solar system body or event
Jupiter | 2018-08-14 3:40 UTC | Color, Ethan Chappel

Jupiter | 2018-08-14 3:40 UTC | Color

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Soon after an exhausting two weeks of astrophotography in July, I went to the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia to do some radio astronomy projects in ERIRA. I highly recommend looking at the program if you're a university student and have even a slight interest in astronomy and research. While I was there I calculated the mass of Jupiter using three of my images and landed less than one percent above the accepted value! Three days after returning from WV, I resumed imaging from home under average seeing and good transparency. I used my Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate for this and the next few nights.

Notes:

    [li]The North Temperate Belt has almost disappeared.[/li]

    [li]A brown barge on the North Equatorial Belt is near the central meridian.[/li]

    [li]The Equatorial Zone is tinted orange.[/li]

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