Europa Shadow and Moon Transits 1/08/04

Hi again!

I've wanted for some time to image a transit of one of the Jovian moons. I noticed that last night presented an opportunity to get a transit of both Europa's shadow as well as the moon herself. The imaging started at 3:22AM (EST, USA) and ended at 6:15AM. In the collage below, note the "first contact" of the moon with the Planet at 5:34 (second row, last column). THAT was exciting to see! I captured 16 AVIs (K3CCDTOOLS) in building the 13 image (Registax) collage. Due to seeing deterioration, the last two pictures required enhancing the brightness of the moon.

C-14 @ F/22 (2X Powermate); ToUcam;
each AVI: 120 seconds @ 20fps in K3CCDTOOLS;
Registax processing

Ed Abel
Silver Spring, MD

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That's a good one, with bright Europa over a dark band... last year was tough for spotting Europa during transits since they were above the bright equatorial zone then. I can't wait to catch one visually this year.

Great pictures... thanks for sharing your work!

Bruce.

Ed,

A wonderful montage of images of Jupiter showing the transit of Europa and it' shadow. The images show excellent detail across the jovian disk. This is an excellent lesson for everyone on the appearance of a transit acoss the disk of Jupiter. Thank you for posting it for us all.

Carlos