Jupiter 20250311

Mar12
by kevin on March 12, 2025 at 20:52
Posted In: astronomy

copyright StarlightCascade Observatory

This is the best image of the run of imaging of Jupiter Tuesday evening. The highlight of the night was a double moon shadow transit, Europa first and smallest and second Ganymede and larger.

Form left to right is:

Ganymede shadow, Europa shadow, Europa, Ganymede

seeing was poor, transparency was poor and winds were gusty. Clouds rolled in before the transits were complete 🙁

This is the best image of the 49 runs, the best 10% 10K frames at 3ms ramping up to 10ms at the end of the 49 runs.

Jupiter diameter is only 38 arcseconds
Below is the animated GIF of the 49 runs.