Venus & Jupiter with possible moon shadow? 11/03/2012

[tich]

Hi everyone I noticed the sky was nice & clear tonight so I set up my scope & set about some imaging. I used 2 stacked 2X Barlow lenses & webcam to get these although for some reason Jupiter was being a bit of a pain to get a nice clear image via my 200P scope.

This first shot is showing a black spot on the planet I am a bit of a newbie & still learning as I've only started taking images a few times since owning the scope in December, but I think it's a shadow from one of the moons maybe? On the top of the Jupiter image just to the left there is a bit of a bump showing, would that be part of one of its moons? As I could only see 3 through the eyepiece.

Jupiter taken 11/03/2012 at 19:36PM

Venus taken at 20:02PM tonight

I find Venus a bit of a tough one to image due to the brightness of it. I've only got an IR filter that came with the webcam adapter so I turned the gain & brightness down a lot in Sharpcap.

I'm off back out now to attempt an image Mars & Saturn if the moon don't spoil it for me tonight & hopefully Mars turns out better than my usual orange blobs.

[Atlas]

Nice images, I think the spot on jupiter you see is actually a storm. ( I could be wrong though.)

[Virgoman]

Hi Tich, that little bump that you have imaged top left is Jupiter`s moon Europa and the dark spot is its shadow. So well captured. Europa is just about to leave Jupiter`s disc after its transit with its shadow trailing behind.

Best regards,

Ralph

[Clayton]

I agree with Ralph re the moon and shadow ID

Some nice shots there

[tich]

Thanks for confirming this, I could see the spot when I was recording Jupiter with the webcam & I wasn't sure what it was.

[Porl]

I was out viewing both Jupiter and Venus around the same time with my 200p and I saw Europa sticking out the side of Jup' and the dark circle and wondered if it could be the moons shadow. That's ace that its been confirmed!

I found Jupiter a little hard to get a good focus on as well, I was just visually observing but it certainly didn't seem as sharp as I've seen him in the past. And I was quite surprised one of the equitorial belts seems to have faded I haven't looked at Jup' for a while because i've been waiting for mars.

Great pictures you've got there dude! Ace to see what the 200p can do!

Porl''

[Viv]

That's some nice shots.