Jupiter is the largest
planet in the solar system. The planet is 11 earth diameters wide. To give
an idea of the size of the planet, the great red spot, visible in some of the
images below could easily fit the earth within it. It is about 5 times
further from the Sun that we are here on planet earth. It takes about forty minutes
on average for the light from Jupiter to reach our eyes. |
Opposition 2006Click here, or on the image opposite
to see my images from the Jupiter opposition 2006. |
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Opposition 2005Click here, or on the image opposite to see my images from the Jupiter opposition 2005. I'm rather pleased with the images I managed to get this year. Jupiter was reasonably high in the sky and my imaging abilities have improved a bit. |
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Opposition 2004Click here, or on the image opposite to see my images from the Jupiter opposition 2004. I managed some reasonable images this year - but I have no details about them because my PC chose to run scandisk and rename every file on the hard-drive. Though I did recover some files - I lost all the time and date information. |
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1998Click here or on the image to see some images from 1998. At this time I experimented by pointing an analogue camcorder into the eyepiece of the telescope. Since then video imaging of planets has become the way to image planets. I have used Registax to process these very jumpy videos. They aren't great, but they are the best ones I have from 1998. |