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Philips SPC900 NC web camera, unless otherwise indicated, with an IR blocking filter. 8 inch Meade LXD55 SCT and 3X barlow. Registax verions 4 was used for stacking. Final processing has been done using AstraImage 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. K3CCDTools version 1 was used to record the videos unless otherwise indicated. Camera settings recorded with WcCrtl unless otherwise indicated.

July 10, 2010 at 9:41 UT

1/33 second exposure. Brightness: 50%. Gain: 43%. Gamma 0%. Saturation 100%. 400 frames stacked. Seeing was excellent (almost a 5 out of 5). Angular diameter 42.8". The Great Red Spot had just passed the meridian.

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July 2, 2010 at 10:07 UT

1/33 second exposure. Brightness: 50%. Gain: 41%. Gamma 0%. Saturation 100%. 425 frames stacked. Seeing was good (about a 3 out of 5). Angular diameter 41.7". Europa's shadow was in transit and Europa (to the left of Jupiter) was approaching ingress. Can you spot Callisto near Jupiter's North Pole?

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July 2, 2010 - Annotated negative version.

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June 30, 2010 at 10:04 UT

1/33 second exposure. Brightness: 50%. Gain: 40%. Gamma 0%. Saturation 100%. 450 frames stacked. Seeing was very good to excellent (about a 4 to 5 out of 5). Angular diameter 41.4". The Great Red Spot was just coming into view.

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June 26, 2010 at 10:29 UT

1/33 second exposure. Brightness: 50%. Gain: 43%. Gamma 0%. Saturation 100%. 425 frames stacked. Seeing was good (about a 3 out of 5). Angular diameter 40.9".

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