Jupiter - 31st March 2016

[dweller25]

Here is Jupiter drawn in a fairly bright sky at 19:06UT and with good seeing......

 

There were some interesting features ....

1. A small bright white oval sitting on top of the North Equatorial Belt - I've highlighted it with a dotted line.

2. Two large blue festoons with long trailing arms and a smaller one on the south edge of the NEB

3. The NEB has a noticeable step where it narrowed starting at the white oval and the NEB was darker than the SEB.

4. Loads of detail in the South Equatorial belt - A dark line leading to the Great Red spot, lots of disturbance after the GRS and three dark features in the disturbance.

Observing details .....

March 31st 2016 at 19:06UT - bright sky

Seeing was very good - AII

Takahashi FS128 with binoviewers at x173.

 

[Stu]

Wonderful sketch, you've picked out some lovely detail there. I wish I'd tried observing it earlier, but the seeing was pretty rotten here all day and only started to improve as I was packing away around 10.30pm.

[laudropb]

Very nice sketch.

[dweller25]

Thanks guys - I got lucky - 1 hour after this drawing the seeing was much worse

[Nick P]

Lovely sketch great detail there

 

[dweller25]

Thanks Nick

[FenlandPaul]

Lovely sketch picking out some wonderful detail.

[dweller25]

Thanks Paul

[mariosi]

Very nice sketch of Jupiter! 

 

Marios 

[dweller25]

Thanks Marios