Jim Moody and I used his 16-inch LX200 in his observatory to image Jupiter on the evening of July 31, 2006. The seeing was variable and very poor on average but we got good results. The image on the left shows the GRS near Jupiter’s central meridian and the red oval preceeding above and to the left of it. One month ago the red oval trailed the GRS. The image on the right was obtained 16 minutes later, this time using a 2X barlow lens. South is at the top and the planet rotates from right to left. Good seeing to all from Jim Melka.
Jim Moody and I used his 16-inch LX200 in his observatory to image Jupiter on the evening of July 26, 2006. The seeing was very poor but his fine telescope and image processing produced a good result. The image on the left shows the GRS and the red oval above and preceding it near the left limb. South is at the top and the planet rotates from right to left. The diagram on the right is courtesy Jupiter section of the British Astronomical Association. It shows all of the cataloged belts and zones on Jupiter. Good seeing to all from Jim Melka.
These two images of Jupiter show central meridians about 120 degrees apart. South is at the top and the planet rotates rapidly from right to left. The one on left shows the side of Jupiter just preceeding the side shown on the right. The right image shows the GRS to the left of center with the ‘red oval’ just above and very close to the right of it.
