Observation by Rui Manuel Horta Lourenço: Rotation period of Jupiter

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Rui Manuel Horta Lourenço

Observer

Rui Manuel Horta Lourenço

Observed

2018 Jun 09 - 23:38

Uploaded

2018 Jun 13 - 23:46

Objects

Jupiter

Equipment

SkyWatcher Esprit 100mm APO
Mount EQ6
ASI224 MC

Location

Amora, Seixal, Portugal

Target name

Jupiter

Title

Rotation period of Jupiter

About this image

In this gift of Jupiter we notices the speed of rotation of the planet . In this about 3 hours between the first image and the last one the planet makes more than 1/4 of its period of rotation. Also note the course of Io, one of its natural satellites. Setup. Skywatcher Esprit 100 APO, ASI224 MC, Televue powermate 5x. 20 avi 3000 frames (used 75% on the stack). Pipp to fix avi, AutoStaker2 + Registax + Photoshop.

Files associated with this observation

86B8547E-52E8-4AC7-A074-B516B1877870.gif (1.0 MB)

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Comments

Jeremy Shears, 2018 Jun 14 - 08:06 UTC

Welcome to BAA Member Pages, and welcome to the BAA!

That is a very fine image of Jupiter. Thank you for sharing.

Jeremy

Rui Manuel Horta Lourenço, 2018 Jun 15 - 00:53 UTC

I tried to post a gif but it did'n work. What was the reason?

Andy Wilson, 2018 Jun 15 - 14:32 UTC

Hi Rui,

First of all welcome to the BAA!

Unfortunately the BAA website does not support animated gifs at this time. We might consider adding it in future, but as it requires some website development it has to compete with other demands on the website support team.

Best wishes,

Andy

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