Archive for August 27, 2009

Jupiter Pictures by Mike Salway

The following two Jupiter pictures are photographed by Mike Salway, the well known Australian astro photographer. He uses DMK 21AU04.AS astronomy camera for his night sky exploring. The 2009 Jupiter Impact scar is evident on the first picture.

Jupiter Image in August

Jupiter Picture

Jupiter Picture in July

Jupiter Picture

Here is part of his email:

On the night of the 3rd August, what started as typically below average seeing, finally improved as the seeing reached a respectable almost 7/10 and gave some of my best views of Jupiter this year.

I was able to catch the 6th magnitude star 45 Cap in the same field of view as Europa and Io, which was a nice surprise.

The seeing was improving nicely, but high cloud and then thick cloud brought my night to an end. The two attachments show one in reasonably good seeing and one in typically average.

Well done Mike! Thanks for sharing!

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