Jupiter

NOTES DATE: Monday, March 29, 2004 TIME: 11:33 pm EST CAMERA: Philips ToUcam Pro (640x480) LOCATION: Owl Observatory - Kalamazoo Nature Center INSTRUMENT: 12" LX200 Schmidt-Cassegrain (with Meade 2.0x Barlow Lens) PROCESSING: Images acquired with K3CCDTools. RegiStax 2.0 aligned and stacked 39 of 301 images.  Further enhancements made with Adobe Photoshop 7.0 COMMENTS: The giant gas planet Jupiter.  JMI NGF-S focuser I normally use wasn't available, so I had to make due with a course focus.  The seeing was also poor.  The Great Red Spot is clearly visible just below he South Equatorial Belt.  Two shadow transits are also visible.  The one directly north of the GRS is from the moon Europa.  The other shadow is from Io.  Io is that bright spot at the "1:00" position on Jupiter's limb.