Most people don't realize that Jupiter is bright enough to be seen in broad daylight if you know where to look! This was about 7:30 am Sunday morning after the sun had risen. I wouldn't normally be able to locate Jupiter in the sky with just my eyes (it's a faint white speck), but my telescope was still pointed at it so I was able to get this picture. Io is the bright dot on the upper right of the surface, and Ganymede is the leftmost dot in the low left, and Europa is the brighter one to its right. Callisto was out of frame off to the left, but would have been visible if I had adjusted my frame of view, which I regret not doing!
![image showing You can see Jupiter in the daytime if you know where to look. This was taken from my backyard Sunday morning. [OC]](d9ef51b0-5fa0-5113-9c9f-67d3e56dfe75.jpg)
ajamesmccarthy on March 26th, 2019 at 22:14 UTC »
Most people don't realize that Jupiter is bright enough to be seen in broad daylight if you know where to look! This was about 7:30 am Sunday morning after the sun had risen. I wouldn't normally be able to locate Jupiter in the sky with just my eyes (it's a faint white speck), but my telescope was still pointed at it so I was able to get this picture. Io is the bright dot on the upper right of the surface, and Ganymede is the leftmost dot in the low left, and Europa is the brighter one to its right. Callisto was out of frame off to the left, but would have been visible if I had adjusted my frame of view, which I regret not doing!
Here's an animation I made of the whole transit
Equipment:
Orion XT10
Skywatcher EQ6-R Pro
ZWO ASI224MC
2x Orion 4-element barlow
Process:
Captured around 20k frames at 3.9ms Gain 200.
Cropped and centered in PiPP, stacked in autostakkert, sharpened in registax.
For more astrophotography stuff- check out my instagram @cosmic_background
Eric431 on March 26th, 2019 at 22:17 UTC »
Bet you can't see Russia from your house though
popsalock on March 26th, 2019 at 23:39 UTC »
crazy how detailed the striations are considering how far away that is and with terrestrial photography