Faint Jupiter moon.

I spent about half an hour observing Jupiter last night.
One thing I did notice was a very faint moon just underneath and indicated in this simulator image.
I can't for the life of me find what it was. It was very faint, serveral magnitudes below the brightness of the other moons. Could have been a star, but I don't think so.

High altitude clouds earlier this evening.

Jupiter & Europa 28th June 2006

Top; 4x Barlow and ToUcam, at higher than usual 15fps.



Below; 26mm EP and 'Canon Powershot' hand held exposure.

Jupiter 27th June 2006

Starlight Express CCD camera

I borrowed my friends Starlight Express MX5C CCD camera last night.
Wow! to use it is a whole new discipline.
Still... "Small steps".

Craters re-processed using MAP

Here are some craters from way back... I re-processed them using the MAP method of multi alignment points.
All images taken with the humble old ToUcam. We don't need no stinking firewire camera! well, we do actually, but I can't afford one just yet ;-)
See... this is why you need to backup your AVI's onto DVD.

Jupiter & Europa transit 21th June 2006

cylindrical projection map (small)

Here's a very small cylindrical projection map, taken from the Io transit sequence below. Just over an hours worth of data.

Jupiter & Io animation

Jupiter 17th June 2006

Contrails

Contrails... don't you just love'em?... No!

Jupiter 16th May 2006

Here's the first image from the 16th June sequence... see, it's still light at 9:20 PM. I took this in a perfect blue sky. And an image taken later.

Ganymede

This was taken using a 4 x Imagemate Barlow.

Jupiter & Io sequence 16th June 2006

I took this sequence with my IR (not blocking) filter.

Jupiter 15th June 2006

Ganymede passing over Jupiter. Io is to the right.

Jupiter & Europa transit 14th June 2006

Lunar impact movie - May 2nd 2006

Here's a link to the NASA site talking about the impact on the Moon the other month.

Jupiter 11th June 2006

This was taken with a ToUcam and a filter made out of a piece of exposed colour negative film (The black bit on the end of the reel). It Seems to bring some of the belts/bands in the middle a bit clearer. See this site.


Normal colour below.

Jupiter 10th June 2006

It's been very hot in the UK this past week. The only thing is... the seeing (for using a telescope) hasn't been very good at all. :-(

Sunspots 10th June 2006

Canon Powershot, 32mm EP.
Prime Focus ToUcam Pro 90sec AVI.

Jupiter & Io 9th June 2006

Moon various June 2006

Here are some Moon images taken in early June. The seeing wasn't very good on any of the days, hence the blurry look.

Jupiter 7th June 2006

Jupiter tonight - 5th June 2006 - 20:19 UT

Plato... spot the older crater.

Theophilus

Jupiter 2nd June 2006

Jupiter 2nd June 2006 B&W (Red filter)

Sunset from last night in 'aerial world'.

Canon Powershot A620.

Jupiter 1st June 2006