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[Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe]

Early Morning Jupiter Imaging

05 June 2010

Eager to see if I could catch any evidence of the recent impact site, I peeked out the front and saw me some fairly open sky. I called out to Laika and both we went to set up the C11...

The conditions were not good, with cluster of clouds and haze, but Jupiter was shing brightly in the southeast and I'l take the opportunity. A warm and humid front passed over while I set up the equipment...and it was quite uncomfortable...t-shirt weather and still I was too warm...

The usual four Jovian satellites were in a nice orbit plane, although in this shot, only three are seen...

When the clouds provided a shot, Jupiter came in bright, but the air was turbulent, but at least I was able to capture some images...

I did not know when the transit time was nor did I observe any indication of the site.

The Moon was ducking in and out of the cloud cover, and when Jupiter slid behind a large cloud mass, I slewed over to the Moon for some shots...

In this second shot of the Clavius area...one can clearly see a distorted heat band inversion sliding across the image...

This was interesting....a mountain peak casting a long shadow on Plato's floor basin...

But soon, the Moon was covered over as well...

...and I went back to Jupiter, but the approaching storm system was going to win out.

A last peek at Jupiter...

..and my session was over at 4:30 am...

There were some black ants crawling about and one decided to climb me, get under my t-shirt and proceed to bite me.

Bastard is no more....

[Paulie pchris00]

I woke up just before 4 Sunday morning with similar intentions, and when I saw Moonlight out the back window, I figured prospects were good. I didn't have any realistic expectations of seeing the impact scarring, but you never know. I didn't have any transit time info either.

By the time I went out, smoked a cigarette, and had the Dob set up, clouds were starting to move in. I tried a few shots holding my camera to the eyepiece. The planet doesn't turn out well that way, but the positions of the Galilean Moons show up. Anyway, the clouds got Jupiter after a couple of minutes, so I turned to the Moon, only to be clouded out there too right away.

I'm really looking forward to getting Jupiter back, because I think it's more interesting than even Saturn. My first summer it dominated my observations, but last year I kind of neglected it. It's kind of disappointing that for now by the time it gets high enough to be viewed decently morning twilight starts to wash it out.

[Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe]

I understand that there has been no observable impact scar from this last event.

Perhaps too small or it just vaporised in the thick upper Jovian atmosphere before entering the planet itself.

Onward to summer and fall observation of Jupiter.

[patrickm]

Jun 8, 2010 9:25:02 GMT -6 Paulie pchris00 said:

By the time I went out, smoked a cigarette, and had the Dob set up, clouds were starting to move in. I tried a few shots holding my camera to the eyepiece. The planet doesn't turn out well that way, but the positions of the Galilean Moons show up. Anyway, the clouds got Jupiter after a couple of minutes, so I turned to the Moon, only to be clouded out there too right away.

Yet another awesome reason to QUIT SMOKING!, says the grotesquely self-righteous ex-smoker. :-)