Jupiter 20th & 23rd April 2017

[mikeDnight]

Attached are a couple of Jupiter sketches from the 20th and 23rd April 2017.

The seeing conditions have tended towards mediocre for jupiter this year from my site, but still an enjoyable sight.

Mike

 

 

[chiltonstar]

Good to see that some observers are still doing it visually!

Chris

[xtreemchaos]

great sketches Mike, I had some fantastic views lastnight, the best seeing ive had this year with the big frac, ive posted a qwick pic in the planet sec, ive more vids to sort today. the GRS looked amazing at 200x, hope we get another chance tonight, and I hope you get better seeing. charl.

[scarp15]

Good studies again Mike, last night was the first opportunity here for a few evenings due to cloud banks. Observing from home, I had to wait until Jupiter was edging towards the South. The seeing did stabilized intermittently, those two large barges are still prominent in the NEB and the South Temperate Belt was very defined, interesting watching Callisto approach.

[Swithin StCleeve]

Love the drawings, there's something much more poetic about sketching.

[laudropb]

Very nice sketches. I had the same experience as you on the 23rd. Started off quite nice but half an hour later Jupiter was a jelly.

[Richard Hather]

Lovely detail captured there mike ?

I was out myself last night and Jupiter was magnificent, especially the GRS very well defined ?

Clear skies ??✨???

Richard

 

[JeremyS]

Great sketches, Mike

I've enjoyed a couple of decent nights on Jupiter with the Tak FS102 under rather good seeing conditions this week. Great to see the GRS standing out.

Jeremy

[johnfosteruk]

Excellent sketches under mediocre seeing Mike, I'll bet they were tiring sessions?

[mikeDnight]

Not tiring John. It's more of a race to try to place the features on view in their relative positions, before Jupiter's rapid rotation throws everything out of kilter. Much more than ten minutes and new features coming onto the disk change the scene. So plotting features accurately as they appear in the eyepiece, and fighting against the seeing conditions and repeatedly fine tuning the focus can be challenging.

Mike