From: Alan Friedman <alan@greatarrow.com>

Date: August 31, 2010 5:13:44 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Kissing Spots

Thanks Mark and Milton - yes, there is a bit of tonality in Io's disk... this seems to appear more obviously when the moon is in transit, but is harder to see against the backness of space.

cheers,

Alan

On Aug 31, 2010, at 1:04 AM, Milton Aupperle wrote:

Hi Alan;

Beautiful shot.

There's a hint (?possibly?) of detail on Io's disk too. Sort of a
vertical grayish band? Might be an artifact too.

Can't wait to see what Jim comes up with over the next few days.

We have fog tonight and rain for the rest of the week. The trees have
started turning yellow and leaves dropping off, which is about 6 weeks
early for Fall. Down to 3°C last night with frost warnings. Third
horrible cold wet summer in a row - so much for Global Warming..

Thanks for sharing..

Milton Aupperle

On 30-Aug-10, at 10:00 PM, Alan Friedman wrote:

>
>
> Here's a picture of Jupiter and Io taken with my 10" mak this morning:
>
> http://www.avertedimagination.com/img_pages/jupiter083010.html
>
> Reasonably good Buffalo seeing and a lot of RGB data to look
> through... the two red spots are quite touching at the moment!
>
> steady skies,
> Alan