Ganymede eclipsing Jupiter - Sky-Watcher 130

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The dark spot on the Jovian disk is the shadow of the largest moon in the solar system - Ganymede. This is a beautiful perspective from which to view the total solar eclipse passing above the Jovian clouds, and goes nicely with the other features such as the NEB and the South Equatorial Zone.

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Science & Technology

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• Jupiter
• Eclipse
• Transit
• Ganymede
• Telescope
• Astronomy
• Moon
• NASA
• Space
• Astrophotography
• Night
• Sky

[77theferret]

Very nice image. I have a Skywatcher 130pm and I can't get an image quite this good, what size eyepiece and/or Barlow are you using?

[george7378]

@77theferret Thankyou :) It does not look this large through the eyepiece - I zoomed my camera in while pointing it through the eyepiece to make the details stand out like that. I was using the standard 10mm eyepiece.

[EasyWolf31]

Nice!!

[george7378]

@EasyWolf31 Thanks - let me know if you get some similar film through Registax!

[sweetpandaonion]

@GlennShepMusic sweet thanks

[GlennShepMusic]

@sweetpandaonion It is the superb Michael Kamen's "From The Earth To The Moon" (the end credits I think) from the mini-series of the same name

[sweetpandaonion]

anybody know the music?

[blujoos]

beautiful, the music complimented it too

[WScustomshop]

Good Job Mate!!!

[77theferret]

@george7378 Thanks for that. I've just bought a 6mm eyepiece, just waiting for the weather to clear now.

[EIN771]

Well made vid of a cool event

[george7378]

@IzackN Sorry about your tripod - have you tried propping it on something like a chair or maybe a table? New ones can't be too expensive - you don't need to replace the equatorial mount itself - just the legs and the platform that it screws onto. A new EQ-2 system with tripod and mount is £90, so I expect that just the tripod will be a lot cheaper.