Jupiters bands different from pictures

[Pincs]

Hi, I was photographing jupiter yesterday night at about 1.30am BST and when I came to processing some of my images in the morning I noticed something unusual about its bands. There seems to be some kind of disruption/brake in one of them. I have been comparing it to the virtual live view of jupiter on sky safari at that time and it doesn't appear on there. Does anyone have any suggestions. Thanks🙂

Callum

[vlaiv]

Nice image.

Your image is probably correct. Jovian cloud and belt system is very dynamic system and you can't expect application to give you correct view of the planet unless it is streamed live from a telescope.

Most applications that show Jupiter "as is" - just have one set of images recorded at particular time and use those to give you illumination, moons and GRS position information. Belts and clouds in the image don't reflect reality at that given time.

[Pincs]

Thankyou for your reply! I thought that might be the case, so im guessing it is probaly just a storm or some disruption in the cloud belts? Thanks🙂

Callum

[vlaiv]

Yes - probably series of vortices that sort of blends into a single feature at this resolution.

Here is something similar on one of high resolution Jupiter images:

at smaller scale it simply looks like gap in cloud belt:

[Pincs]

Cool, thats great. Well it was my first image with my new camera so at least I caught something interesting😂.

Callum