The Dutch Observatory

It has almost been three years since I imaged Jupiter, but I wanted to give this a try again with the new ASI120MM camera.  A lot to learn!  My old process does not work anymore, so searching again for the best way to do it.  Not too bad for the first Jupiter  image with this new camera  in this new apparition.

Sunny and calm until the clouds moved across.  Spend some time to image close ups from 1855 and 1857 and I am showing the best results. I am getting used to the new camera for this type of images.   The whole disk image shows how AR1855 has grown substantially.  Also the close ups show this.  The two regions at the Eastern limb are developing also strongly, and the eruptive prom that I imaged earlier in the week was initiated here.  So who knows what’s coming.

A stable sky this morning before the clouds started coming in. Made a full disk image of the sun and a close up with the
C11 and its WL and green filters of AR1855.  Nice detail in this image.  Most of the time some of the image is smeared because of the atmospheric distortion moving across.  Today nice and even for all granules and that for 1280 pixel image! Feeling good about this.