#Planet #Jupiter, taken yesterday with an 8" telescope. The seeing was pretty bad, but the Great Red Spot is visible nevertheless. The brightness of the #Galilean #Moons has been enhanced disproportionally. RGB colors have been taken sequentially over the course of 10 min. As a result, the moons appear as little rainbows due to their motions.
“It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.”
― Galileo Galilei, The Starry Messenger, Venice 1610: "From Doubt to Astonishment"
Happy Birthday #Galileo! 🥳✨
If you have some time after sunset tonight you can catch #Jupiter (and the #Galilean moons if you have good binoculars or a passable telescope 🔭), along with Earth's #Moon, and the constellations #Orion, and #Taurus.
🌐 ~35⁰N
🕖 ~ 19:00 CST
NASA's #Juno spacecraft will make its closest approach yet to Jupiter's moon Io this weekend. Juno will pass 22,000 kilometers from #Io, the innermost of #Jupiter's four large #Galilean #moons, on Sunday. Scientists plan to use an instrument on Juno originally designed to monitor Jupiter's #aurora to map heat sources on Io, which is subject to intense volcanic activity. Scientists saw signs of an active #volcano during a more distant flyby in May. #NASA
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-juno-is-getting-ever-closer-to-jupiters-moon-io
Michael Mommert
Kara Finance
☆⋆Okie Space Queen
Mycotropic
Westport Observatory
Dr. Alexandre Santerne 🌍
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