After the favorable opposition of the last
year, this year Jupiter and Saturn are in an even more favorable position.
Moreover their position in the sky is very curious, very close eachother
and between two famous open clusters: the Iads and the Pleiads.
In this page there are and there will
be some observations of this opposition.
|
|
conjunction 1 |
conjunction 2 |
Jupiter showed a color more intense than those of the precedent opposition: the north and south equatorial bands was brown-red. The north tropical band was very narrow. Only a little more was visible at the eyepiece: some dark spot was visible in the equatorial bands. But with the ccd the details are much more, as is visible in the following images and animation.
For every comment about images, or about my bad english: comolli@libero.it
|