The planet Jupiter

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13th March, 2004.
Transit of Ganymede in front of Jupiter.
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Ganymede is passing in front of the planet, and its shadow is appearing on the left of the globe.
The other visible satellites are Europe on the right, and Io on the left.
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Images taken with a ToucamPro behind the C8. Stacking of about 450 to 550 shots, processing by Registax 2.0.
The picture below has been taken with a 2x barlow.
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image taken with a 2x barlow lens.

 

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24th March 2004.
End of the transit of Io in front of Jupiter, its shadow is still visible over the planet.

 

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23rd April, 2004.
Transit of Io and Europe in front of Jupiter.

You can see the shadow of Io and Europe on ther right. Io itself is not visible.

Each frame is the result of about 500 shots, stacked and processed by.
Toucam Pro at the prime focus of the C8, time is GMT+2.

 

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18th May 2004.
Transit of Europa in front of Jupiter. The satellite is on the right, its shadow on the left.
ToucamPro with barlow x2, 600 shots stacked and processed by Registax2.0.

 

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5 Mai 2005.
Transit of Io in front of Jupiter.
ToucamPro with barlow x2, 600 shots stacked out of 900, processing with Registax 2.0.

 

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7th February 2004.

Jupiter and its satellites (from left to right : Ganymède, Callisto, Io and Europa).

This is a stacking of two pictures taken by the webcam at the prime focus of the C8, a first one for the planet, and a second ,overexposed one for the satellites.