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Web Camera Images

Capture Notes: Philips SPC900 NC web camera, unless otherwise indicated, with an IR blocking filter and recording at 1/33 second exposure and 5 fps for 2 minutes. 8 inch Meade LXD55 SCT and 3X barlow. K3CCDTools version 1 was used to record the videos unless otherwise indicated. Camera settings recorded with WcCrtl unless otherwise indicated.
Processing Notes: Final processing has been done using Registax version 4 for stacking, Astra Image for removing diagonal bands through Fast Fourier Transform edits and for applying deconvolution. PhotoShop CS2 or Paint Shop Pro 9 have been used for adjusting levels, curves and color, while Neat Image is used for digital noise removal.

September 17, 2018 at 1:02 UT.

250 frames stacked. Camera settings: brightness: 50%, saturation: 100%, gamma: 0%, and gain: 54%. Seeing was poor (about a 2 out of 5). Angular diameter 33.5".

August 12, 2018 at 1:53 UT.

300 frames stacked. Camera settings: brightness: 50%, saturation: 100%, gamma: 0%, and gain: 63%. Seeing was poor (about a 2 out of 5). Angular diameter 36.6".

August 01, 2018.

Camera settings: brightness:50%, saturation: 100%, gamma 0%, and gain: 49%. Jupiter sequence showing the rotation of the planet and a transit of Io and its shadow. Seeing was poor to average (about a 2 to 3 out of 5). Angular diameter 37.8".

July 29, 2018 at 1:49 UT.

300 frames stacked. Camera settings: brightness: 50%, saturation: 100%, gamma: 0%, and gain: 62%. Seeing was poor (about a 2 out of 5). The Great Red Spot was just beginning to emerge on the left side of Jupiter. Angular diameter 38.2".

July 23, 2018 at 3:08 UT.

300 frames stacked. Camera settings: brightness: 50%, saturation: 100%, gamma: 0%, and gain: 52%. Seeing was poor to average (about a 2 to 3 out of 5). Io is visible to the right of Jupiter, and its shadow is transiting Jupiter's disk to the left. Europa is visible to the left of Jupiter. Angular diameter 38.9".

July 22, 2018 at 2:13 UT.

300 frames stacked. Camera settings: brightness: 50%, saturation: 100%, gamma: 0%, and gain: 54%. Seeing was good (about a 4 out of 5). The Great Red Spot is visible to the lower left. Angular diameter 39.0".

July 17, 2018 at 2:42 UT.

300 frames stacked. Camera settings: brightness: 50%, saturation: 100%, gamma: 0%, and gain: 54%. Seeing was average (about a 3 out of 5). The Great Red Spot is visible to the lower left. Angular diameter 39.4".

July 10, 2018 at 2:17 UT.

300 frames stacked. Camera settings: brightness: 50%, saturation: 100%, gamma: 0%, and gain: 46%. Seeing was average (about a 3 out of 5). The Great Red Spot is visible to the lower left. Ganymede is visible just to the left of Jupiter and Io is visible farther to the left and down. Angular diameter 40.4".

July 9, 2018 at 2:05 UT.

450 frames stacked. Camera settings: brightness: 50%, saturation: 100%, gamma: 0%, and gain: 51%. Seeing was average (about a 3 out of 5). Io and its shadow are transiting across Jupiter's disk. Io is located about the same distance from the right side of Jupiter's disk as its shadow is from the left side of Jupiter's disk. Angular diameter 40.5".

July 8, 2018 at 2:12 UT.

300 frames stacked. Camera settings: brightness: 50%, saturation: 100%, gamma: 0%, and gain: 49%. Seeing was good (about a 4 out of 5). The Great Red Spot is visible in the lower right and Io is visible to the right of Jupiter. Angular diameter 40.6".

July 3, 2018 at 2:00 UT.

300 frames stacked. Camera settings: brightness: 50%, saturation: 100%, gamma: 0%, and gain: 46%. Seeing was average (about a 3 out of 5). The Great Red Spot is visible in the lower center. Ganymede is visible transiting Jupiter in the upper center and Callisto is visible to the upper right of Jupiter. Angular diameter 41.1".

July 2, 2018 at 2:24 UT.

300 frames stacked. Camera settings: brightness: 50%, saturation: 100%, gamma: 0%, and gain: 52%. Seeing was average (about a 3 out of 5). Io is visible to the right of Jupiter. Angular diameter 41.3".

June 28, 2018 at 2:31 UT.

300 frames stacked. Camera settings: brightness: 50%, saturation: 100%, gamma: 0%, and gain: 37%. Seeing was average to good (about a 3 to 4 out of 5). The Great Red Spot is visible in the lower center. The gain was set too low which resulted in the poor quality of the image. Europa is visible to the left of Jupiter. Angular diameter 41.7".