Jupiter Sketch - 5 September 2012

[DarkerSky]

A tricky Jupiter this morning in turbulent seeing.

8.5" x220 magnification

Neodymimum Filter

Seeing III-IV

04.30UT - 05.10UT

System I - 306 degrees

System II - 230 degrees

NEB clearly divided into two bands now. The southern band is the darker of the pair and showed a couple of prominences working their way up into the EZ. The northern component of the band is itself differentiated with a darker zone on its northern cusp and lighter zone in the south. The most surprising feature for me was the obviousness of the banded area in the EZ. This is showing up well too in photographic images. SEB showed rifting on the following edge, but difficult to make out details. The STB showed up well, with a darkened area to the preceeding side of the CM.

[Qualia]

Lovely drawing, Seb. Fantastic attention to detail, even at the EB. Brilliant stuff