Jupiter 2018

The Planet Jupiter + GRS - Meade 127mm. Apo Refractor with Barlow lens at F 22.5 - QHY5-11 Colour Planetary camera - 19th-20th April 2018 - credit: Pip Stakkert 

" The weather in Lowestoft had been rather good for a number of days so Pip Stakkert, our Imaging Team leader at the Jodrell Plank Observatory, pointed the 127mm. Refractor at Jupiter. Sadly, Jupiter is very low this year and near the southern horizon from our location of Latitude 52.4833 North. The images he therefore obtained obliquely through our atmosphere are detrimentally affected by chromatic dispersion, atmospheric heat instabilities and pollution. However blurry the view, keeping an eye on the 'king of the planets' is always a priority at the Jodrell Plank Observatory". - Kurt Thrust acting CEO and current Director of the Jodrell Plank Observatory.

Wide-field view showing the innermost Galilean moon Io

"Io is pulled and pushed by the the gravitational tidal forces exerted by Jupiter and its other Galilean moons, this imparted energy creates constant and violent volcanic activity in and on this small moon." - Archie Mendes visiting mathematician and astrophysicist. 

More Information about the moon Io

Wide-field view showing  Galilean moons Io and Callisto

The Planet Jupiter + GRS - Meade 127mm. Apo Refractor with Barlow lens at F 22.5 - QHY5-11 Colour Planetary camera - 19th-20th April 2018 - credit: Pip Stakkert