Jupiter (Time Lapse Photography) by AstronomyMan

Photography • Space • posted on Jul 16, 2008

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No, I am not dead yet I just haven't been as active as I usually am, I am going to live to 100 or die trying. Taken with my trusty webcam, and a 8" telescope on evening of Monday 14th July, from a deck, somewhere in Allentown. Jupiter had just passed opposition (when the Sun, the Earth and my home planet, Jupiter are all in a straight line). The large picture shows Jupiter, with its Great Red Spot Thingy, its moon Ganymede (to the left) and its moon Io (on the face of Jupiter to the right with its shadow, the big black dot). The little photos show Jupiter (at the times stated in Universal Time Co-ordinated) over a 1.5 hour period, showing Jupiter rotating (see the Spot rotate to the left) and Io moving into transition (little dot to the right) and making a BIG SHADOW as it does. For you earthlings and other carbon-based-lifeforms, UTC is the same as Greenwich Mean Time (not Greenwich Pleasant Time).

Comments (9)

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TwoPynts

10:18AM | Wed, 16 July 2008

Superb sequence of time lapse shots. I didn't realize Io orbited Big J so quickly. Thanks for sharing! :o)

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amirapsp

12:34PM | Wed, 16 July 2008

Great work and informative...Hugs

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busi2ness

12:38PM | Wed, 16 July 2008

Ha! Stirring my interest here, excellent captures. Sigh, I have to stick to StarryNight.

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Fidelity2

1:35PM | Wed, 16 July 2008

Superb. Flawless masterpiece. 5+!

blackbeltbound

4:07PM | Wed, 16 July 2008

Beautifully done!

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Shiroyama

7:09PM | Wed, 16 July 2008

super shots, thanks for sharing!

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tommorules

9:09AM | Thu, 17 July 2008

Amazing stuff, thanks for sharing!

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NefariousDrO

8:48PM | Thu, 17 July 2008

That's so cool! Nice work on this. I love the sequence. (btw, I always called it "Greenwich not-friendly time lol!) Thanks for sharing, indeed!

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promiselamb

5:43PM | Wed, 20 August 2008

wow what kind of camera do you use to take these shots??? with this kind of camera I could shoot people on the beach in Florida. and me still live in Arizona lol