Did anyone image Jupiter about 11pm on 3/3/14?

[Moonshane]

I am asking as I did a quick sketch which seemed to show a large, slightly orange oval within the SEB, just ahead of the GRS. I was hoping to confirm what my eyes saw with an image.

I will try and upload my (slightly dodgy) sketch later on.

Cheers

Shane

[Mike73]

Shane if you convert UT to the Central Meridian longitudes with this you can then look back a few days on alpo Japan and get a good idea of what you saw.

I always check this section of the forum aswell but without the CM's your kinda guessing what you saw.

Gerry also mentioned an orange oval in the SEB in the thread below, I thought it was the oval BA at first but from what he said it was something else.

http://stargazerslounge.com/topic/209179-what-is-this-called/

[Moonshane]

cheers Mike

I cannot access the latter site at work so will have a look later and add the sketch too. I might be jr. but it seemed a lot bigger.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

You may have seen a "baby red spot". These baby-reds occur quite often. They usually start out as white oval spots, and once they grow beyond a certain size, and reach up sufficiently high into the atmosphere, they start changing colour. Usually they merge with the GRS at some point

[Moonshane]

cheers Michael. I am sure it must be this sort of thing but it seemed slimmer but about the same size and the GRS. hopefully an image will surface soon. the clouds rolled in before I could get a comparison directly with this feature and the GRS fully in view.

[Bart]

Shane,

last night I was observing mostly DSOs but swung over to Jupiter and spotted something very like you describe. It didn't look exactly like the GRS but I thought it might have been the seeing. I checked skysafari and the GRS was just at the edge and not where I spotted almost exactly like you describe. White and within an equatorial belt, to be honest, I can't remember which belt and I don't take records. It was interesting but it was slowly moving behind an obstruction so I let it go

Must be what you saw

Barry

[leelee970]

Yes, I did image Jupiter around that time, and there was an nice orange oval infront of the GRS.

Lee

[DrRobin]

Shane,

I confirm that there is an oval in front of the GRS.  I was imaging Jupiter from 7:30 until 11:30 last night, taking 27 videos and 60GB of data, still trying to process them, but all the shots after 11pm show the oval and I will post later.

Of course Lee has beaten me to it.

Robin

[leelee970]

Sorry Robin,

But i'm sure your images will be better - I was fighting a slight breeze and only managed a 800 stack.

Lee

[DrRobin]

Lee,

With all that data I must have one decent capture, but I am not going to commit to say it will be any better than yours at this stage, it is a cracking photo.

Robin

[Moonshane]

great stuff, cheers guys. that's exactly what I thought I saw. I'll upload my sketch by way of comparison later.

[Laurie61]

I am asking as I did a quick sketch which seemed to show a large, slightly orange oval within the SEB, just ahead of the GRS. I was hoping to confirm what my eyes saw with an image.

I will try and upload my (slightly dodgy) sketch later on.

Cheers

Shane

I think this feature has been developing for a few days I spotted it on the 27th feb, along with Europa's shadow, It did not look orangey to me visualy at the time and I described it as a bright patch. My observation - http://stargazerslounge.com/topic/209402-grs-and-europa-shadow-transit-now-showing/  and some images from the night -  http://stargazerslounge.com/topic/209498-jupiter-27th-feb/

[Moonshane]

Nice one Laurie

you did well to spot it when so light!

last night it was well defined visually per the image above.

[Laurie61]

Nice one Laurie

you did well to spot it when so light!

last night it was well defined visually per the image above.

Thanks  it will be interesting to see if it develops further ? 

[Moonshane]

Here's my (child-like) sketch. It does at least show the feature/position. In my defence it was done with a manual dob, tracked by hand and in the dark, holding a notebook, pencil, dim torch and whilst trying to keep the planet in view!

[DrRobin]

Much better than my sketching Shaun.  Exactly the same view I got on the screen, easy to see how we could mistake it for the GRS. 

Laurie, I can also see it on my Europa's transit, but thought it was something to do with Europa's shadow and didn't realise it was a surface feature until reading your post.

Link to my post of 27th Feb    http://stargazerslounge.com/topic/209446-jupiter-27th-feb/

Robin

[DrRobin]

One of mine from last night showing the other spot.  Still processing all the rest.

Robin

[Moonshane]

Interesting stuff! I am glad I made the sketch now. I will be hoping to do more of Jupiter to try and hone my skills a bit. even when of very basic quality, they certainly enhance a notebook.

[Bart]

Here's my (child-like) sketch. It does at least show the feature/position. In my defence it was done with a manual dob, tracked by hand and in the dark, holding a notebook, pencil, dim torch and whilst trying to keep the planet in view!

DSCF0051.JPG

Very good. That is just what i saw

Barry