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Jupiter in good seeing

Jupiter is showing a lot of details all across the disc in this image. The Great Red Spot has just disappeared out of view around the left limb but it's trail of turbulence is evident in the northern equatorial belt.
To the south of the equator are many blue festoons and a considerable white oval is visible to the right on the lover edge of the southern equatorial belt.

OPTICS 10" Newtonian f/5.2, TeleVue 5x Powermate
MOUNT Losmandy G11 equatorial
CAMERA Philips ToUCam Pro SC1 webcam
FILTERS None
EXPOSURE ~1000 x 1/25th s
DATE/TIME 18/04/2006 12:28 UTC
LOCATION My backyard observatory in west Auckland, New Zealand


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