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| Jupiter in the early hours of the first day of May2016. The Great Red Spot was more or less in the centre of Jupiter's disk and Io was about to be occulted by the planet's western limb. 127mm Meade Refractor and QHY 5v planetary camera. |
Jupiter is still visible in our northern hemisphere sky but as it moves away from Earth the apparent diameter of its disk reduces day by day. As its apparent size reduces, its apparent magnitude or brightness, reduces. This image of Jupiter will therefore be my last until next year. 2016 has not been great for planetary imaging. Unfortunately, the jet stream has been over the UK in general and our house in particular for about 3 months. The jet stream makes the atmosphere more turbulent and is a nightmare for planetary imagers. You can imagine how pleased I was when on the 1st of May it turned north over the Midlands and left the skies over East Anglia jet stream free!
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