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. |
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These three images were taken in November 1998. I'm not sure of the exact dates. They were each taken by holding an analogue video camera to the eyepiece my 222mm F8 telescope. At that time the scope was set up as a Dobsonian. I have since transferred the short videos to my PC and processed them using Registax 3. For these images South is up. |
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