new Hubble image of Jupiter and ganymede

[timetraveller]

hiya guys check out these new images of Ganymede disapearing behind Jupiter taken by the Hubbles planetary Camera's really high quality here is the link to the site

regards Pete

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/42/video/a/

[Sam]

Wow! :shock: the detail is incredible! To think that the images that hubble gets look as good as the Voyager images - just amazing!

[timetraveller]

sam did you watch the video sequence its rather good

[Sam]

sam did you watch the video sequence its rather good

yep - looks just like that through my Lightbridge....

or maybe not

[Ferox]

That's a fantastic video. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to see that through your scope.

[imagefan]

That's a fantastic video. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to see that through your scope.

we can dream eh,

altho with adaptive optics becoming increasingly more common in high end professional telescopes hopefully this will filter down to the amateur market in the not so distant future

[beamish]

Nice find Bagged that one for the library, take a look at the Saturn imagery

[Tiny]

It's almost sweet the way the little moon goes and hides behind mumma!