Here's my Celestron Omni AZ-102 telescope from earlier this evening. We were both patiently waiting for nightfall to arrive.

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Still from Red Spot Movie

This image is one of seven from the narrow-angle camera on NASA Cassini spacecraft assembled as a brief movie of cloud movements on Jupiter. The smallest features visible are about 500 kilometers about 300 miles across.

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA02830
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

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Atmospheric Waves

With its Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera MVIC, half of the Ralph instrument, New Horizons captured several pictures of mesoscale gravity waves in Jupiter equatorial atmosphere.

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA10097
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

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Jupiter in blue, ultraviolet and Near Infrared

These three images of Jupiter, taken through the narrow angle camera of NASA Cassini spacecraft from a distance of 77.6 million kilometers 48.2 million miles on October 8, reveal more than is apparent to the naked eye through a telescope.

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA02822
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

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Ammonia Ice Clouds on Jupiter

The top cloud layer on Jupiter is thought to consist of ammonia ice, but most of that ammonia hides from spectrometers. It does not absorb light in the same way ammonia does.

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA10076
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

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