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ART ASTRONOMY Sun, Moon, Venus & Miscellaneous PROCESSING
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JUPITER 2022/23 Apparition |
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Note: Most of the images on this page
are "clickable" and will open up as "full scale images"
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A composite of
all of the better colour images taken during this year’s apparition of
Jupiter. |
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December 15th
2022 |
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A view of Jupiter
with the Great Red Spot “front & centre” with another somewhat earlier in
this night, together with 2
individual filter images. (monochrome) |
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December 14th
02022 |
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Here we see the Oval
BA (aka “Red Spot Junior) as well as Io transiting Jupiter plus a bright spot
in the Northern Equatorial Belt. Io’s dark poles
are clearly seen in this image. Individual
filter (monochrome) images follow of this night’s imaging. |
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December 1st
2022 |
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Jupiter with the
GRS “setting” and Ganymede’s shadow transiting with the moon itself
approaching transit. (2 images one shortly
after the other) This is followed
by several monochrome images around the same time period. |
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November 22nd
2022 |
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A series of monochrome
and colour images from this night where festoons and streamers emanating from
the NEB can be seen
across the EZ of Jove. A lot of details
and activity can be seen throughout the disk of Jupiter in these images. |
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November 16th
2022 |
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The red filter image
and subsequent colour image from this night. As can be seen
in the red filter image, the seeing was not particularly good on this night
but a reasonable amount of detail was still able to be evinced from the final
colour outcome. |
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November 3rd
2022 |
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Another image
where the Oval BA is on view. |
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October 27th
2022 |
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Plenty of
festoons in the EZ of Jupiter in this image, a few very long. Tens of
thousands of kilometres long in the one that appears like a giant tadpole. |
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October 26th
2022 |
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A colour
animation, a monochrome image and a colour image all with the GRS in various
stages of setting, plus Ganymede
visible in the first 2 images. |
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October 15th
2022 |
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An animation and
single image below that reveal a lot of activity in Jupiter’s belts with some
spectacular activity in
those “breaker-like” structures on the Northern edge of the North Equatorial
Belt. (NEB) |
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October 5th
2022 |
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White Europa transiting
across Jupiter’s face with Ganymede and Io out to the right. As the text in
the image says, Europa’s shadow can just be seen entering across Jupiter’s
face also to the left and
just a bit higher than Europa – it looks like a very slight “nick” in Jove’s
limb/edge, but you’ll have to look hard! |
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September 24
2022 |
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4 images showing
Jupiter over about a 15 minute timespan. In these images
the Northern Temperate Belt (NTB) appears very thin indeed. |
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Here the
WinJUPOS software allows us to construct North & South Pole views of
Jupiter from the images above. The first
is an “inverted” image which does make some details more apparent. |
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In the
image below WinJUPOS was used to combine numerous stacks (single images) from this night
to produce a somewhat more detailed outcome. The
following image from the same night was where we caught Ganymede just before
it passed
into Jupiter’s shadow on that part of its’ orbit where it goes behind
Jupiter. Ganymede is being “eclipsed” by Jupiter
in these very regular occurrences as we can see very clearly in the enlarged
inset in this
image. Because the Sun is shining from the left side with respect to this
image, Jupiter’s shadow is cast to
the right somewhat and why Ganymede begins its eclipse before it actually
moves behind Jupiter. |
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September 10th
2022 |
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Here Europa
approaches Jupiter with its shadow already “in transit.” Monochrome
images follow the colour image. |
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July 5th
2022 |
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