Jupiter with Great Red Spot

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Photographer:

Rod Pommier

Location of Photo:

Pommier Observatory, Portland, OR, USA

Date/Time of photo:

2016-03-17, 07:42 GMT

Equipment:

Telescope/Mount: Celestron Compustar C14 SCT with Tele Vue 2x Powermate Barlow. Camera: Point Gray Flea3C at 60 fps. Stack of best 500 of 2500 frames.

Description:

During Jupiter's 2016 opposition, persistent poor seeing made imaging the giant planet difficult. This was the only decent image I was able to produce, which shows the Great Red Spot and the turbulent flow it produces in the South Equatorial Belt.