Planet Jupiter rotation

Jupiter is the largest planet orbiting our Sun and its rotational period is less than 10 hours.

On Nov. 26, 2011, G. Masi and G. Luccone obtained almost 1.000 CCD images (!) - back to back - of the planet, covering about 3.4 hours, then they were properly aligned and assembled as a movie. The result is visible in the animation above (please wait for the animation to be completely loaded, then enjoy it at full speed: it will start running automatically, once completely loaded, just wait and see!).

Please note that every frame is a single, raw image, as no image processing was performed.

Images were captured with the Celestron C14", part of the Virtual Telescope Project. A blue filter was used, to "kill" the otherwise too high luminosity. The OTA is installed on a Paramount ME mount, by Software Bisque. The CCD camera is a SBIG ST8-XME. The image scale is of 0.62"/pixel.

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• planet
• jupiter
• virtual
• telescope
• astronomy
• sky
• gianluca
• masi
• gisella
• luccone

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genial!!!!!!!! muy muy Bueno, un saludo, Carlos