From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: September 3, 2009 2:19:10 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Dual transit of Jupiter recaptured (from Toronto)

Hi Jim;

On 3-Sep-09, at 1:57 PM, jimchung2338 wrote:

Last night the seeing was very nearly perfect and I was able to capture the dual transit of Ganymede & Europa from 11 PM until 2 AM by taking an image every 20 minutes.  Jupiter shows lots of good detail at I suspect the limit of my 8 inch aperture and its 30 degree altitude and even Ganymede is visible as it travels across the disc of Jupiter. 

Very nice capture. Excellent detail on Jupiter, especially all the white spots. It almost looks like you may have picked up the impact event too, as there is a dark gray elongate blob near the south pole.

I am now officially retired from imaging Jupiter for 2009.

LOL!

I retired from Jupiter 4 years back - just too low on the horizon to try imaging it at anything more than prime focus with the C8 up here, especially with the Jet Stream.

Thanks for sharing..

Milton J. Aupperle