Observations of object "Jupiter"

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Jupiter (Planet, est. mag -2.2, est. to be in Virgo)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 127-mm other   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Fri May 6 00:30:00 2005 UT   Obs. no.: 1226

This Evening, I observed Jupiter with my 127mm MAK. The north equitorial belt now looks much more thicker than the south equitorial belt. The SEB seems to be losing some of its mass. There also seems to be gaps in the SEB. I also was able to observe three other belts on Jupiter.

Jupiter (Planet)
Observer: Joe Caggiano (e-mail: jcaggiano@mindspring.com)
Instrument: 6-inch equatorial reflector   Location: Horsham, Pa., USA
Light pollution: light   Transparency: excellent   Seeing: excellent
Time: Thu Apr 28 02:30:00 2005 UT   Obs. no.: 1223

Took advantage of the good seeing as well as mild temperatures to look at Jupiter. The planet was so easily visible that even my neighbor with bad eyesight could clearly see the 2 major cloud belts. GRS was not visible at the time I was observing, however there were 5 stars in jupiters FOV that were about 9.5 to 10.5 magnitude which made it look like 9 of Jupiter's moons were present. It was easy to spot Jupiter's moons from the stars in both their color and their positions parallel to Jupiters belts. I pointed this out to my wife and neighbor so they too could point out the difference. Shortly thereafter clouds moved in. (go figure...grumble...)

Jupiter (Planet, est. mag -2.5, est. to be in Virgo)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 127-mm other   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: light   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Thu Apr 14 00:10:00 2005 UT   Obs. no.: 1218

This Evening, I observed Jupiter with my 127mm MAK. The great red spot was almost at meridian. The GRS has a pinkish look to it. It is also surounded by a dark line that seems darker on the topside of the GRS. Also, two of Jupiter's moons were closely paired along side the planet.

Jupiter (Planet, est. mag -2.5, est. to be in Virgo)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 6-inch Dobsonian reflector   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: light   Transparency: good   Seeing: fair
Time: Tue Apr 12 01:00:00 2005 UT   Obs. no.: 1217

This evening, my friends Mike Dzubaty, Steve Borer and I observed Jupiter with Steve's 6" dob. A shadow transit was occuring on Jupiter when we were observing it. The shadow, either from Io or Europa, was at meridian right in the middle of the south equitorial belt. After a while, the shadow moved past meridian. Io and Europa were right next to Jupiter. We also observed Saturn which looked sharp and clear with the Cassini division showing nicely.

Jupiter (Planet, est. mag -2.5, est. to be in Virgo)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 12-inch Dobsonian reflector   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Wed Apr 6 00:30:00 2005 UT   Obs. no.: 1215

This evening, my friends Mike Dzubaty, his son Mike, Steve Borer and I observed Jupiter With Steve's 12" dob. The north equitorial belt had some obvious festooning. In addition to the two major belts, we could see two of Jupiter's fainter belts, the north temperate belt and the south south temperate belt. We could not see the south temperate belt this time aruond. So far out of the three fainter belts of Jupiter, the south south temperate belt is the brightest with the north temperate belt the second brightest and the south temperate belt being the faintest of the three miner belts.

Jupiter (Planet, est. mag -2.4, est. to be in Virgo)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 127-mm other   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Sat Mar 26 03:00:00 2005 UT   Obs. no.: 1190

Last night, I observed Jupiter with my 127mm MAK. As jupiter approaches its April 3rd opposition, I am able to see more details on Jupiter's face. In addition to seeing the north and south equitorial belts, I can now see the north and south temperate belts and the south south temperate belt. All three belts look like small pencil lines on the face of the planet. The south south temperate belt is the easiest to view. The north temperate belt is the hardest to view because it only goes about one third of the way accross the planet. The south temperate belt looks a little dimmer than the south south temperate belt.

This evening, I observed Jupiter with my 127mm MAK at 121X. The first thing I noticed was the north equitorial belt looks smoother than it has in a long time. The south equitorial belt looks to be about 80% as thick as the NEB. The south temperate belt is getting easier to see as Jupiter draws closer to opposition. I still can't see the north temperate belt.

Jupiter (Planet, est. mag -2.3, est. to be in Virgo)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 127-mm other   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: light   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Fri Mar 18 03:00:00 2005 UT   Obs. no.: 1186

This evening, I observed Jupiter with my 127mm MAK. In addition to the north and south equitorial belts, I have been seeing a third belt in Jupiter's southern hemisphere. At first I thought it was the south temperate belt. But after looking at a map of Jupiter which shows all of its belts, I think I am observing the south south temperate belt which is closer to Jupiter's south pole than the south temperate belt. I still can't see the north temperate belt which I have seen for the last three years before this year.

Jupiter (Planet, est. to be in Virgo)
Observer: Sriram.M.Gubbi (e-mail: sriram_gubbi@yahoo.co.in)
Instrument: naked eye   Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: light   Transparency: excellent   Seeing: excellent
Time: Tue Mar 15 00:30:00 2005 UT   Obs. no.: 1207

this bright planet along with spica(alpha vir),during the midnights of winter appeared contrasting.even it's galilean satellites (io,europa,ganymede,callisto) were also visible through my scope.

This evening, I observed Jupiter at 160X. Besides seeing the north and south equitorial belts, I was able to observe the south temperate belt. It has been two or three years since I saw the south temperate belt. Meanwhile, I could not see the north temperate belt at all. In the previous three years, I was able to see the north temperate belt fairly often.

Jupiter (Planet, est. mag -2.3, est. to be in Virgo)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 127-mm other   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Sun Feb 20 05:30:00 2005 UT   Obs. no.: 1177

I observed Jupiter with my 127mm MAK at 123X. One of Jupiter's moons was just emerging from behind Jupiter. For a while, Jupiter looked like it was connected to its moon which I believe was Io. After a while, they began to seperate. On the planet itself, I can still only see the north equitorial belt and the south equitorial belt as well as the polar hoods. As Jupiter gets closer to its April opposition, I expect to see more planetary details.

Jupiter (Planet, est. mag -2.0, est. to be in Virgo)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 127-mm other   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: light   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Sat Feb 5 04:55:00 2005 UT   Obs. no.: 1174

Last evening, I observed Jupiter with my 127mm MAK at 123X. It looks like the north equitorial belt is a little thicker and darker than the south equitorial belt. There was noticable festoons on the NEB and I think there was a festoon on the SEB. I was not able to see any other belts this time.

Jupiter (Planet, est. mag -2.0)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 127-mm other   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Sat Dec 25 09:30:00 2004 UT   Obs. no.: 1134

This morning, I arose to observe Jupiter with my 127mm MAK. Two of Jupiter's moons were paired together on one side of the moon. I believe they were Io and Europa. On the other side of Jupiter, was another moon that was almost touching Jupiter. Also, it looks like Jupiter's north equitorial belt is thicker and brighter than its south equitorial belt. About two hours later, Venus and Mercury rose up together. Venus' magnitude was -4.0 and Mercury's magnitude was -.4. I took a look at Mercury with my 127mm MAK but all I noted was that its phase was about 50%. I saw no surface detail on Mercury this time. I then had to look at the sun later in the morning with my Sunspotter solar telescope before I joined my family for Christmas dinner. The only activity I saw on the sun was sunspot # 713 which is now past meridian. It looks like an average sunspot. The rest of the sun looks blank.

Jupiter (Planet, est. mag -1.8, est. to be in Virgo)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 127-mm other   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: light   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Thu Nov 4 10:30:00 2004 UT   Obs. no.: 1086

This morning, before dawn, I arose to observe the very close conjunction of Venus and Jupiter and the fairly close conjunction of Saturn and the moon. Venus was about six tenths of a degree above Jupiter. It was like a car turned over sideways with its headlights on. Directly over my head, Saturn and the moon were sise by side. This is the first time in my life that I have seen two conjuctions at once involving the moon and planets. I then observed Jupiter and Venus with my 127mm MAK. It looks to me like Jupiter's north equitorial belt is much brighter than the south equitorial belt. On Venus, I saw some darker clouds along Venus' equator. It looks like some active weather is starting to develope on both planets. The only thing I was a to observe on Saturn was its south equitoial belt.

Jupiter (Planet, est. mag -2.2, est. to be in Leo)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 6-inch Dobsonian reflector   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: good
Time: Fri Apr 9 23:30:00 2004 UT   Obs. no.: 982

I observed Jupiter at 200X just as the sun set. The one thing that really stood out was the size of a white oval that was nestled on the southern edge of the north equitorial belt. It looked to be about three fourths the size of what the great red spot usually is. Also, the NEB had much less festooning than it had three days ago. The south equitorial belt looked rather smooth this time.

Just as it was getting dark, I observed Jupiter at 133X and 200X. The great red spot was transiting across Jupiter's face. It's very hard to tell but I think the GRS's color may be fading. It has a very slight orange tinge to it. I could not detect the pinkish tinge that I was noticing in my earlier observations. The pencil like line going around the GRS also looks much more obvious to me. I also noticed the white oval that was transiting across the north equitorial belt just ahead of the GRS has shrunk to about half its size. Finally, The NEB looked like it had an increase in festooning in it.

Jupiter (Planet, est. mag -2.4, est. to be in Hydra)
Observer: Dave Mitsky (e-mail: djm28@psu.edu)
Instrument: 17-inch equatorial reflector   Location: Lewisberry, Pennsylvania, USA
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: good   Seeing: good
Time: Sun Mar 28 03:00:00 2004 UT   Obs. no.: 977

Early Saturday night I had good views of Jupiter's Great Red Spot transit through the Astronomical Society of Harrisburg's 12.5" f/6.5 Cave Newtonian and the 17" f/15 classical Cassegrain. What might have been Callisto or a dark barge was visible as well.By the time that Callisto's shadow ingressed on the disk of Juiter the seeing had taken a definite turn for the worst. When Io joined the party two shadows were visible but by the time of the rare triple transit (3:00 UT) the seeing was so bad (the worst that I've experienced in many months) that it was not possible to discern Callisto's shadow in the north polar region despite stopping down both scopes to as little as 6 inches. We could make out the shadows of Io and Ganymede with some effort. So it was 2 out of 3 (the shadows of Callisto and Io and Io and Ganymede) two times. Efforts to image the event through the 17" with a Meade LPI device were not very successful.Other objects observed with the 12.5 and 17" included Mercury, Venus, the Moon, Saturn, Titan, M65, M66, M104, and the famous variable star R Leonis. Several eighth and ninth magnitude stars in Taurus were occulted by the Moon during the early part of the night. I also viewed the Moon and Jupiter with the new ASH 127mm f/12.1 Orion StarMax Maksutov-Cassegrain

Jupiter (Planet, est. mag -2.4, est. to be in Leo)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 6-inch Dobsonian reflector   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: light   Transparency: good   Seeing: fair
Time: Tue Mar 23 02:30:00 2004 UT   Obs. no.: 970

This evening I observed Jupiter at 133X. The great red spot was showing well. Its color seemed to be a cross between light tan and light orange. The dark spot in its center was easy to see. Earlier, I observed the shadow transits of Europa and Io as they moved along the North equitorial belt.They were very easy to see and it was interesting to watch. I also observed a white oval on the NEB during the shadow transit and another white oval, also on the NEB at the same time I saw the GRS.

Jupiter (Planet)
Observer: Giorgos Koronis (e-mail: giorgos.koronis@lies.com)
Instrument: 8-inch Dobsonian reflector   Location: Kalamata, Greece
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: good
Time: Sat Mar 20 21:00:00 2004 UT   Obs. no.: 968

Observed plantet Jupiter thru my homemade 8" f/4.5 dobsonian. Magnifications used 145x and 228x. S and S.S. temperate belts visible.Better seen thru blue 80A filter.Traces of equatorial band consisting of festoon "tails" visible faintly.

Jupiter (Planet, est. mag -2.5, est. to be in Leo)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 6-inch Dobsonian reflector   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Tue Mar 16 02:30:00 2004 UT   Obs. no.: 965

Last night while I was observing Jupiter's great red spot, I noticed that two of Jupiter's moons, Io and Europa, were very close together. Seperating them in my telescope was like trying to seperate a fairly close double star. The moons looked grand after they had separated a little bit more.

Jupiter (Planet, est. mag -2.5, est. to be in Leo)
Observer: Dave Mitsky (e-mail: djm28@psu.edu)
Instrument: 17-inch equatorial reflector   Location: Lewisberry, Pennsylvania, USA
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: excellent
Time: Tue Mar 16 01:45:00 2004 UT   Obs. no.: 966

I observed the GRS transit on Monday night using the 17" classical Cassegrain at the ASH Naylor Observatory. The seeing was quite good and I was able to employ 324x to good effect. The dark area within the southern part of the GRS was visible. The GRS itself was the pale pink hue of recent months. Io and Europa were quite close together in apparent distance. Also observed were M42, M43, NGC 2169, and Saturn and four of its satellites.

Jupiter (Planet, est. mag -2.5, est. to be in Leo)
Observer: Dave Mitsky (e-mail: djm28@psu.edu)
Instrument: 12-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain reflector   Location: Fishing Creek Road, Pennsylvania, USA
Light pollution: light   Transparency: excellent   Seeing: good
Time: Sun Mar 14 01:30:00 2004 UT   Obs. no.: 964

Dave Lassiter and I observed and imaged the transits of Ganymede and Io on Saturday night (which was an extremely cold and damp one by the way) with his 12" LX200 and Meade LPI from north of Harrisburg. We also imaged Venus and Saturn earlier in the evening and much later a few binary stars before shutting down.

Jupiter (Planet, est. mag -2.5, est. to be in Leo)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 6-inch Dobsonian reflector   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: light   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Sat Mar 13 04:15:00 2004 UT   Obs. no.: 962

Tonight, I observed Jupiter at 133X. The great red spot still has a decent pink tinge to it. I also saw a dark spot in its center. I observed this dark spot many times last year, but this is my first view of it this year. The dark spot at the center of the GRS doesn't seem to be as obvious as last year. There is a white oval on the southern end of the north equitorial belt that is traveling slightly ahead of the great red spot on the south equitorial belt. In fact, this is about the fifth time this year I observed the white oval traveling a little ahead of the GRS.

Jupiter (Planet, est. mag -2.5, est. to be in Leo)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 6-inch Dobsonian reflector   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: good
Time: Wed Mar 3 02:45:00 2004 UT   Obs. no.: 957

Tonight, I observed Jupiter at 133X and 200X. There was a white oval sitting on the southern side of the north equitorial belt. It looked stretched out and elongated. Part of the south equitorial belt was bulging in size. That part looked twice as thick as the NEB. The SEB also looked like it was split like a railroad track at the thickest part. Last year, around opposition, I was able to observe the north temperate belt with no trouble, but this opposition I can't see even a trace of it.

Jupiter (Planet, est. to be in Leo)
Observer: Dave Mitsky (e-mail: djm28@psu.edu)
Instrument: 17-inch equatorial reflector   Location: Lewisberry, Pennsylvania, USA
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Thu Feb 26 08:11:00 2004 UT   Obs. no.: 953

Observing a Galilean satellite go into or emerge from eclipse by Jupiter is one of my favorite aspects of observing Jupiter. The past two mornings I was fortunate enough to witness two of these events.At 8:06 UT on 2004/2/25 I watched Europa disappear using the 17" f/15 classical Cassegrain (162 and 259x) at the ASH Naylor Observatory (http://www.astrohbg.org). This morning (2004/2/26) at 8:11 UT I viewed the eclipse of Io with the same instrument at 259x (25mm Celestron orthoscopic).

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