Jupiter
2020 Opposition Imaged with the R.F. Royce RDK-10 Dall-Kirkham Planetary
Telescope
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Jupiter Information and Data courtesy of
The
Nine Planets website
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Date: 03:32 GMT August 15th, 2020
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Jupiter's Great Red Spot is very prominent at lower left of planet.
Jupiter's moons are putting on a great show at the time of this image!
The moon Ganymede is off Jupiter's disk to the right. Just a hint
of surface structure can be seen on Ganymede as differences in surface
shading. Ganymede's shadow is very prominent transiting Jupiter's
disk. Jupiter's moon Io is just starting to transit the planet's
disk on the left. |
Image
Details:
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- Instrument:
R.F. Royce RDK-10 254mm Dall-Kirkham Planetary Telescope @ f/20 (5080mm
native focal length)
- Mount:
Software Bisque Paramount MX German Equatorial GoTo Mount on Software
Bisque Pyramid Tripod
- Image Scale: 0.10
arc-seconds/pixel
- Camera:
ZWO ASI178MM mono video camera shooting in 16-bit
.Ser file mode and 800x600 ROI mode
- Filters:
Lumicon R, G, B and Astronomik NIR-747 filters
housed in Starizona Filter Slider
- Exposure:
.Ser file webcam capture, 1000 frames each in R, G, B, and NIR-747
channels @ 60 fps
- Software:
FireCapture V.2.6 capture software,
Auto-Stakkert V.3, Registax Wavelets Ver. 6, Topaz Labs DeNoise AI, Topaz
Labs Gigapixel AI, final processing in Adobe Photoshop CS6
- Location:
Little
Rock, AR., El. 300ft
Date:
04:24
GMT August 10th, 2020
Page Last Updated: 2/13/2021
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Wade Van Arsdale