We are about a week past opposition with Jupiter and was my first opportunity of this season to get out and check out Jupiter. Whilst Jupiter has been prominent in the sky some some time it was obscured by my neighbours house and the weather in Sydney hasn’t been kind this spring.
After checking the MetroBlue Astronomy Seeing for Sydney earlier in the day I could see that it would be an excellent opportunity to get some observing done. I first started with Saturn as it is high in the sky mid/late evening with Jupiter getting into a better position from about 11pm.
After performing a quick stack I could see the results were going to be pretty good so I decided to do about 90 minutes of observing taking 60 seconds of video followed by 30 seconds delay.
The following animation below is the result and am quite pleased even though the clarity of the image softens towards the end as I hadn’t turned on my dew heaters and only noticed when I was packing up.
You can clearly see Jovian moon Io and it’s shadow transits the face of Jupiter. A beautiful site.
