The Dutch Observatory

September 8, 2008 on 11:41 am | In Planets | Comments Off

Jupiter was an interesting object last night.  Io did transit the planet while the shadows from Io and Callisto were visible on the planetary disk.  We were supposed to have bad weather, but most of the clouds moved out at a few minutes before 8:00 EDT, but some residual thin clouds stayed around and made the seeing terrible. 

I wanted to give it a try and see if I could get anything.  Here three images made in terrible seeing, but the shadows are visible.  However, there is not sufficient detail to make out Io against the background of Jupiter.