Note the rare absence of the belt usually surrounding the Great Red Spot. Taken 18 days after opposition. Callisto is the dot near Jupiter's north pole, seen here just before it skimmed less than an arcsecond from the disk. Orange Io can be seen to the far rights. | Jupiter Details: | | Night of: | Saturday October 9, 2010 | Site: | Palomar Mountain | Local Time: | 9:43 PM | Oct 9, 2010 | Altitude: | 47° | | Distance: | 372,579,000 miles | Magnitude: | -2.89 mV | Diameter: | 49.19 arcsec | Tilt: | +2.6° NP | Phase Angle: | 4.04° | Illumination: | 99.88% |
| | Camera Settings: | | Telescope: | 9.25-SCT | Camera: | Orion Starshoot DSI2 + 3x | f/ratio: | f/30 | Pixel Scale: | 0.235 arcsec | Gain: | 0 | Exposure: | 0.045 sec | Video Length: | ? | Frames: | | Stacked: | 100 |
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