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T O P I C R E V I E WLunatikiI thought I might share this with you guys. It will be on NASA's spaceweather.com within the next few days. I took 11 images of Jupiter the other night during a some what rare double transit and made them into an animation. You can see the moon Ganymede itself to the left and its shadow on Jupiter. Below it's shadow is the moon Callisto itself. The black spots reminded me of the movie 2010. Jupiter animation MCroft04Fantastic!Lou ChinalLunatiki-Thanks for taking me back to my youth!-LoutegwilymVery cool! Jupiter is just too low here in Seattle for a good shot at it this time around. I've tried, but it just looks like a jiggling water balloon most of the time. Plus, my neighbor needs to prune his tree next door since Jupiter hides behind branches. I'm almost considering offering to trim his tree for him! What are the details of that image? Scope, camera...etc?TomLunatikiThanks guys. Tom, it has been pretty low here too. In those images, it was between 24 and 30 degrees high. I've just been very lucky with seeing conditions as of late. I used a Celestron Nexstar 8i (gps) with Alt/AZ mount, a 2x barlow and my camera is a DBK21AF04.AS. Stacks of about 1000 frames in each image.MachodocExtremely cool and thanks!Yup, I've seen the movie, and also highly recommend not just that book, but Clarke's final entry of the trilogy "3001" where Frank Poole returns.FFrench quote:Originally posted by Machodoc:Clarke's final entry of the trilogy "3001" where Frank Poole returns.Actually, "3001" was the fourth and final book. The third was called "2061."MachodocFrench you are absolutely right. How I forgot that one I'll never know since I have it and read it!Jay ChladekThese images are rather cool I must say. One thing I regret is not having the budget right now to get a decent telescope and get into astronomy myself as the sky has some great wonders. As for the dark spot on Jupiter, if it starts to grow, make darn sure you LET us know ASAP! As for Jupiter, sometimes I do wonder if in several billion years when the sun becomes a red giant if events might transpire to turn Jupiter into another sun, sort of like what happened in the movie 2010 with help from the monolith.tegwilymJust remember "all these worlds are yours - except Europa - attempt no landings there"
Jupiter animation
Thanks for taking me back to my youth!
-Lou
Jupiter is just too low here in Seattle for a good shot at it this time around. I've tried, but it just looks like a jiggling water balloon most of the time. Plus, my neighbor needs to prune his tree next door since Jupiter hides behind branches. I'm almost considering offering to trim his tree for him!
What are the details of that image? Scope, camera...etc?
Tom
Yup, I've seen the movie, and also highly recommend not just that book, but Clarke's final entry of the trilogy "3001" where Frank Poole returns.
quote:Originally posted by Machodoc:Clarke's final entry of the trilogy "3001" where Frank Poole returns.
Actually, "3001" was the fourth and final book. The third was called "2061."
As for Jupiter, sometimes I do wonder if in several billion years when the sun becomes a red giant if events might transpire to turn Jupiter into another sun, sort of like what happened in the movie 2010 with help from the monolith.
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