Michael A. Phillips' First Jovian Year (2007-2019)

Michael A. Phillips' First Jovian Year (2007-2019)

 Building off my last blog where I complained about all the planets being low in 2019.  I offer this illustration of a full Jovian year.  During this time period you can see Jupiter starting at a low altitude in2007 and rising to a high altitude around 2014 only to dip back down in 2019.   What's really telling to me is that even after swapping telescopes in 2011 the quality still drops from 2012 to 2019 because of the altitude.

Full RES Imgur : https://i.imgur.com/sc4xNrm.png

All my photos from amateur and some home-built equipment, taken fro my house in North Carolina, USA.

Thanks! It was quite fun to realize the journey I was on!

Links and descriptions for each year's best:

August 3, 2007
C8i - DMK21af04  - 32°

September 4, 2008
C8i - DMK21af04  - 39°

June 30, 2009
C8i - DMK21af04 - 41°
Bird Strike

October 23, 2010
C8i - PGR Flea 3 - 50°
SEB Disappeared

November 8, 2011
Akule 14" - PGR FLea 3  - 64°

October 14, 2012
Akule 14" - PGR FLea 3  - 72°

January 4, 2014
Akule 14" - PGR FLea 3  - 75° Published in S&T

March 24, 2015
Akule 14" - ASI174MM - 70°

February 28, 2016
Akule 14" - ASI174MM - 60°

March 4, 2017
Akule 14" - ASI174MM - 48°

July 11, 2018
Akule 14" - ASI174MM - 39°

July 2, 2019
Akule 14" - ASI290MM - 32°
 

Jupiter-20090822 - finally a break!

I got burned by lying, hiding clouds a week ago and a week before that was poor seeing.  So it has been 3 weeks since my last good night on Jupiter.

Finally a break in clouds and good seeing too!  I'd say the whole night's seeing was 6-8/10 and 3/5 transparency.  Rare indeed!

I wasn't diligent enough to catch the Io occultation of Europa.  I missed it by less than 30minutes!  :(   I did get setup and imaged this fine one before the clouds rolled back in.

I missed the occultation but didn't realize until after that the Wesley Impact Spot 2009 was nearing the CM.  I'm not sure I see it....  Is that it in the lower right???  It's nearly gone if I got it at all...

Thanks,

Mike

Jupiter 20090804 - GRS and Wesley Impact Spot

It would have been nice to have the seeing hold as Jupiter dropped in altitude towards the time of the Wesley Impact Spot, but it did not.

The image seems a bit crowded to me, but I thought it would be nice to have a dual view with 3 channel RGB all for comparison.

The spot is REALLY spreading out!

My July 25th, GRS, Wesley Strike and Io Transit

Does it seem like Jupiter season is in full swing yet? :)

Thanks to Anthony for discovering the impact strike, which I will faithfully call the Wesley Strike of '09 (he'll find more).

Seems to me yesterday morning was magical, something special in the air even drew out my son at 5:30.  He woke on his own I swear!  I did dress him quickly and dragged him outside for some help capturing this one and gave him some stellar 8/10 seeing views of Jupiter.  Seeing was a bit better just before he woke up... more on those later.  For now, here is his and my image!  He pressed the start capture button and drove the scope around!  ;)



Rest of the night and full 2009 season is here: http://maphilli14.multiply.com/photos/album/75/Astronomy_-_Planetary_-_Jupiter_2009

Mike

Astronomy - Planetary - Jupiter (2009)

Great start to the season early June 30, 2009 AM