Observation by Alan B Thomas: Jupiter

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Alan Thomas

Observer

Alan B Thomas

Observed

2020 Apr 15 - 04:00

Uploaded

2020 Apr 15 - 11:00

Objects

Jupiter

Equipment

127mm Mak-Cas
Sony RX100

Exposure

f/1.8 1/80 sec. ISO 800

Location

Warrington, Cheshire, UK

Target name

Jupiter

Title

Jupiter

About this image

My first image of a planet showing a disk. A little earlier, using a 40mm eyepiece (x38) I could just detect two major belts and three pin-pricks - Callisto, Europa and Ganymede - strung out to the East. Jupiter never ceases to deliver, even at these modest magnifications and in the growing daylight.

Files associated with this observation

DSC01652 (1024x699).jpg (387.5 kB)

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Jeremy Shears, Peter Mulligan, David Basey, Andy Wilson, Andrew Dumbleton, Tracie Heywood

Comments

Peter Mulligan, 2020 Apr 15 - 12:10 UTC

Well done Alan if the sky had been darker you would have probably got more detail on the disk

Peter

Alan Thomas, 2020 Apr 15 - 12:41 UTC

Thanks, Peter. I may have another go tomorrow morning at the Moon, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter showing. But I will have to hike down the road to somewhere with a clear horizon - which could be construed as 'inessential' (the walk, not the clear horizon!) - and time will be even shorter. This assumes I can rouse myself from my bed by about 04.00 (BST) . . .

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