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Name:  Jupiter  - This is a simple image taken with my guide camera whilst takeing some dark frames with my main camera.     

Jupiter  is the fifth planet  from the Sun  and the largets planet within the Solar Sysyten.  It is two and a half times as massive as all of the other planets in our Solar System combined. Jupiter, along with Saturn , Uranus and Neptune,  is classified as a gas giant.  

The planet Jupiter is primarily composed of hydrogen with a small proportion of helium;  it may also have a rocky core of heavier elements under high pressure.  Because of its rapid rotation, Jupiter's shape is that of an oblate spheroid  (it possesses a slight but noticeable bulge around the equator).  The outer atmosphere is visibly segregated into several bands at different latitudes, resulting in turbulence and storms along their interacting boundaries. A prominent result is the Great Red Spot, a giant storm that is known to have existed since at least the seventeenth century.  Surrounding the planet is a faint planetary ring system and a powerful magnetosphere.  There are also at least 63 moons, including the four large moons called the Galilean moons that were first discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610.  Ganymede , the largest of these moons, has a diameter greater than that of the planet Mercury.

 

Date: 06/06/2008
Location: Golden Grove
Camera: Mead DSI Pro II Mono
Optics: Mead LX200R
Exposure: 
Total Exposure: 
Guiding: DSI self guided on LX200.

Processing

Photoshop CS2: levels,  curves, saturation  scaling, jpeg conversion .