Jupiter International Observing Campaign entries.

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:

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. look to at the right edge, 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

Methane filter on great red spot: