Jupiter 2020-08-03 There is a slight haze, but a good air flow. Great red spot (GRS) is visible in the center. The permanent vitiligo (BA) at the bottom left of the GRS appeared black in UV, but in recent years it is white.
Jupiter 2020-08-01（UT) It is the end of the rainy season. Carat is clear. Jupiter and GSR (Great Red Spot) are in the center. BA approaches the south side.
Jupiter, Mars 2020-07-31 The planet after a long time before the rainy season. Jupiter has good transparency and airflow, and UV and CH4 are good. Mars grows in size in the 14s range, its altitude also rises, and patterns can be seen. The problem of astigmatism in the 45 cm mirror has been improved and it has become practical.
Jupiter, Mars 2020-07-19(UT) Jupiter is an opposition, bright and large. There is no major change in the Jupiter plane. There is an astigmatism on the 45 cm mirror, and the star image is not sharp. Mars imaged at C14. The visual diameter is on the order of 13 seconds, and the surface pattern can be seen visually.
From old Jupiter images (found in the album organizer) I tried to make a color image from RGB image by RGB composition Since 1979-02-20, it’s Jupiter 41 years ago! It’s probably when I started to take full-scale planetary images. At that time, I did all the filming, developing and printing. The world is unimaginable with digital imaging, but at that time there was only this. It was a self-made 15cm Newtonian reflector, F/9 (made by Mikio Kawamura), and its a good telescope. The basics of RGB filter photography are the same, but the exposure time is as long as 1 to 2 seconds, and it is blurred due to seeing condition. In the final darkroom work, I improved the image by printing it on photographic paper with composite. Those who were shooting planets in this way are more than 60th birthday! Now, the SEB is dark and the EZ is […]
Jupiter, Mars 2020-06-28 (UT) The planet after 10 days. Unusually clear and sunny, Planets are low south and middle altitude, so turbulence on the ground is terrible. A dust storm occurred on Mars, I don’t want to be a big dust storm!
Jupiter 2020 I captured the differences in the Jupiter feature for each wavelength and arranged them side by side. Color from left, UV.CH4 IR.IR(1μ). The feature around the center is completely different, but the IR.IR(1μ) is small and the polar regions in the north and south are different.
Jupiter 2020-06-16 (UT) During the rainy season, thunderstorms disappear and the weather is clear and transparent. The airflow was the worst and I could not see the image of Jupiter’s GRS at all.
2020-06-10(UT) Jupiter I could take only one Jupiter in the clear sky before cloudy. This will be the rainy season! On Jupiter’s side, NEBn is a bay-shaped cove, and NEBZ is a complex with white spots.
2020-06-09(UT) Jupiter The clearness of the nights increased the transparency a little. In Japan, the south-central altitude of Jupiter is as low as 32°, and it is difficult to see Jupiter due to the turbulence of the air on the plains. Seeing was a little stable near the center of the south, and the details of Jupiter were clearly visible inside the NEB at 400 times magnification. I think the binocular device is good for a close look. The NEB has a monotonous feature, whereas the NEB sometimes has a complicated feature, and the NEBs have a bright white spot and an extremely complicated feature thereafter. I have summarized the Jupiter images at each wavelength so that they are easy to see. You can see the difference between the belt position and the description.