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Jupiter with Red Spot

Jupiter with the Great Red Spot, I'd been having some problems getting an image of Jupiter so I decided to try with the society's telescope. I really wanted to get the Red Spot in the picture and I knew it would pop out from behind Jupiter about 11:30pm. The image was taken on the second of two very cold nights and the end of February and beginning of March so I was careful to cool the telescope down before use. I'm very pleased with the results.

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Filename:	CS_Jupiter20040301.jpg
Album name:	CSuddell / Jupiter
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Link-words:	Jupiter
Image date, time and location:	1st March 2004 23:25
Telescope aperture and focal ratio:	Take with a Meade ETX125 and 2x Barlow, Vest Pro 680k web cam and Astronomik IR Filter. 650 frames taken at 5fps, 0 gamma, 50th sec exposure, 50% gain, only 400 frames of 650 were used, or 75 seconds worth, I did this to stop the image rotation from caus
File Size:	6690 Bytes
Date added:	Mar 04, 2004
Dimensions:	345 x 263 pixels
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