Contains:  Solar system body or event
Jupiter | 2019-05-27 4:56 | RGB, Ethan Chappel

Jupiter | 2019-05-27 4:56 | RGB

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

I wasn't expecting to image within the next week. However, I found Jupiter shining through a very thin cloud layer, so I hastily set up the C8 in a race against the clouds that were predicted to arrive at any moment. This was the first light of my new ZWO RGB filters, which I find to be much better than the Orion filters I was previously using with the this telescope.

Notes:

    [li]Io and its shadow is transiting the North Equatorial Belt.[/li]

    [li]White Oval Z is directly north of the Great Red Spot.[/li]

    [li]The Equatorial Zone is still orange. The southern edge appears to be finally losing its white color.[/li]

    [li]The South Equatorial Belt appears to be split by a white zone. The southern edge of the belt appears more gray than brown.[/li]

    [li]The Great Red Spot is highly sheared on the western edge.[/li]

    [li]Another cloud sheared off the GRS a few days earlier is to the east of the storm.[/li]

Comments