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[katodog]

A couple of pics from last night, June 13th, at my cousin's house.

Celestron 8" Schmidt-Cassegrain, Fuji S5000 DSLR, 25mm Eyepiece, 2x barlow, roughly 6-8x optical zoom on camera. Stacks were around 1500 frames and 2500 frames.

We were going for the Great Red Spot, and got it on the lower left. I was hoping we'd get it sooner so it would be more centered, but clouds had different ideas.

[Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe]

Kdog,

Good captures of Jupiter...and you even caught a Satellite too!

I can't make out Red Spot Jr, did you mange to view it in the eyepiece?

Is it me, or has one of the two main horizontal bands shrunk/thinned out?

I'll be doing some Jupiter viewing this evening and let's see what it shows us...

Thanks for sharing and anticipate more.

[katodog]

I'm not sure, but I think the GRS Jr. was already passed. I never can figure out which way the dang picture is oriented, up, down, left, right, sideways, slantways, stairways, always... I don't know.

The more pro pictures I have seen, it was down and to the left of the GRS. But, as I have said before, I'm just an amateur.

[katodog]

After quite a bit of scrutiny, and figuring out what the correct orrientation of Jupiter was, we figured out that the Red Spot Jr. IS visible. It is barely visible, but you can see the orangish discoloration to the right and below the GRS.

[Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe]

Kdog,

How cool is that....To be able to actually see a changing event happening on a distant planet in real time! And a huge object at that.

Great stuff...