Here are some of my better entries, more details below.
Where's Waldo:
can you find the great red spot in this image?
hint: look at the stuff next to it in the next image.
Best great red spot:
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| Jupiter with great red spot the great red spot is noticeably small this year bonus ganymede transit to the right |
OK here's the first image again (below). the GRS is perfectly on edge, right side, just below the southern equatorial belt (lower brown band). there's a hint of red right on the rim followed by the trailing turbulence seen to the left of the great red spot in the image above. this is the great red spot rotating away from us.
sharpest image:
The Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers (of course i'm a member) asked jupiter observers to participate in an international observing campaign to coordinate with observations from the
James Webb Space Telescope
(JWST) complemented by professional imaging
through Juno’s Perijove 81 on February 25.
"Because both JWST and Juno observe Jupiter only intermittently,
amateur contributions are important. High quality ground based images
provide the continuous coverage needed to track rapidly evolving
atmospheric features and place spacecraft and space telescope data in
broader context. Even modest backyard telescopes can supply
scientifically valuable information when paired with careful
documentation"
so i went crazing imaging every night from Feb 20th to 25th, good seeing or bad, even shooting through light clouds...processing as fast as i could, including image annotations with jovian coordinates measured in win jupos.
for those who are interested they've extended the project through the end of March if anyone's interested.
needless to say, it was a lot of work. annotated images below
