Jupiter’s Red Spot Jr. And Other Jupiter Images

Christopher Go, of Cebu City, Philippines usually observes and captures images of Jupiter and Saturn. He reports to several astronomical organizations throughout the world, including NASA and ALPO.

Christopher became an overnight celebrity in the astronomy community when he discovered Red Spot Jr. (aka Oval BA) on February 27, 2006. He immediately alerted the scientific community and was headlined on NASA’s web site and reported upon worldwide (for example here, here, here, here, here and here).

Below is his famous image:

For his work, he deployed a Celestron C-11 Schmidt Cassegrain telescope, mounted on an AP-900 equatorial mount and The Imaging Source DMK 21BF04 monochrome camera. This trigger camera is normally deployed in industrial applications. Christopher was one of the first to try using The Imaging Source FireWire cameras for astro-photography and is thus a pioneer in the field.

Christopher has set up a web site with the sole purpose of monitoring Red Spot Jr. It contains a number of images that he has personally captured, as well as several from other astro-photographers:

http://www.redspotjr.com

Further to his research on Red Spot Jr. Christopher is again observing Jupiter. He has published several very recent images on his web site. Again, all images were captured with The Imaging Source DMK 21BF04 monochrome camera:

http://jupiter.cstoneind.com

A great thanks goes out to Christopher for his on going work with The Imaging Source cameras and the spectacular images that he publishes at frequent intervals on his web sites.

3 Comments »

  1. Renowned Astro-Photographer Reviews DMK 21AF04 - Astronomy Cameras Blog said,

    May 30, 2007 @ 16:20

    [...] seeing the spectacular results created by Christopher Go with The Imaging Source DMK 21AF04, Paul decided to tryout the same camera for his own [...]

  2. Mercury Transit in 2006 - Astronomy Cameras Blog said,

    June 15, 2007 @ 13:18

    [...] am maybe a little late in posting this, but following my recent blog post on Christopher Go, of Cebu City, Philippines, I feel that this entry is still [...]

  3. James said,

    August 24, 2007 @ 07:46

    Chris..

    I am amazed with your Solar images of the Transit of Mercury using the DMK 21BF04. I wish to know, were these images coming directly from the camera? or were they enhanced in Photoshop or some other enhancement program?. I too, have a SolarMax60 and wish to know what camera will give results like yours.

    James

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