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Europa Transit 9-20-2022, walkman

Europa Transit 9-20-2022

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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I managed to capture Europa as it made a transit across Jupiter on Sept. 20, 2022.  The animation covers just under 3 hours of elapsed time.   I imaged the transit from the Onizuka Visitor Information Station on Mauna Kea at an elevation of 9200'/2805m.  Equipment was a Celestron C11, Explore Scientific 2x Extender and a ZWO ASI224MC camera. 

Europa moved left to right across Jupiter.  Io came into the field of view from the right just as Europa was about to make its egress.  I imaged Europa's egress but the seeing took a massive turn for the worse at that time and those images were omitted from this animation.

The animation is a bounce or rocker style  where the movement repeats forward and backward.

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