Hello:
Last night a few of us were observing Jupiter (among other things) from the 9,300 ft. level of Mauna Kea with a 12.5" cassegrain. Towards midnight the seening, and the scope, had settled down and we got quite a nice view of the GRS. I believe that I could get a glimps of Red Jr. during moments of good seeing using about 400x. There was a thickening of the brown belt trailing the GRS and to the south of it, and it looked like there was a pale tan/orange spot at the head of this thickening of the band. Has anyone else seen Red Jr. in the eyepiece?
The seeing was good enough to identify the 4 Galilean satellites by appearance (size and color). At 800x, Ganymede was a clear, and somewhat large, disk. If the seeing was a bit more steady, we may have had a shot at seeing surface details on it.
Cheers
Mike Connelley
Last night a few of us were observing Jupiter (among other things) from the 9,300 ft. level of Mauna Kea with a 12.5" cassegrain. Towards midnight the seening, and the scope, had settled down and we got quite a nice view of the GRS. I believe that I could get a glimps of Red Jr. during moments of good seeing using about 400x. There was a thickening of the brown belt trailing the GRS and to the south of it, and it looked like there was a pale tan/orange spot at the head of this thickening of the band. Has anyone else seen Red Jr. in the eyepiece?
The seeing was good enough to identify the 4 Galilean satellites by appearance (size and color). At 800x, Ganymede was a clear, and somewhat large, disk. If the seeing was a bit more steady, we may have had a shot at seeing surface details on it.
Cheers
Mike Connelley