Jupiter, Ganymede
The observing conditions were… weel, usual, ie bad. The usual setup was used to observe Jupiter and the first half of Ganymede’s transit. ASI 224MC, TSO ADC, N250/1200, HEQ5
The gif below is big, be careful if on a metered connection.
The seeing was bad, so I just combined the frames. Nothing fancy. ASI 224MC, TSO ADC, N250/1200, HEQ5 with the soapbox project.
This is a not mobile friendly post with a 4MB gif, don’t just open it. The central shadow is getting shorter as the Moon becomes more and more full. The exact datetime of the frame to the right is 2019-07-12-1848Z, I messed up the filenames a bit, sorry.
Half an hour of raw video (>100k frames, tens of gigabytes) went into this picture of Saturn. The low altitude craves for the huge number of frames to … well, have enough luck for the lucky imaging. At 178°42′ elongation, this is just one day away from the opposition. The rings are surprisingly bright. ASI 224MC, TSO ADC, N250/1200, HEQ5 guided by the soapbox on my balcony.
As usual, this is from the balcony observatory, ASI 224MC, TSO ADC, N250/1200, HEQ5. Planet tracking is done by the soapbox project. The seeing had good moments, but the low altitude of the planet and the fact that I have one of Romania’s largest cities underneath is certainly not helping, these beyond the generally shitty astroclimate of the Carpathian Basin. After the many nights I was up at 4AM to capture the planet, it has well passed the opposition by now and its going away from the horizon of my vantage point. It was an interesting collaboration: me sleep-deprived while getting some good views and Jupiter… doing what it’s been doing for billions of years now.
37 individual videos have been recorded and processed for the animation below, from 2019-07-10T18-54Z to 2019-07-10T21-50Z, each video about 3 gigabytes, equal lenght of 90 seconds, and equal gaps between.
Only five days apart, the planet has shown some interesting changes. More images are coming. From the balcony, ASI 224MC, TSO ADC, N250/1200, HEQ5.
