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Jupiter in near perfect seeing

A lot of details are visible in this image. The upper (southern) equatorial belt is showing a lot of turbulence, and there are many write ovals all over the disc.
Large blue festoons appear with regular intervals in the lower (northern) equatorial belt and several very dark spots are visible too.

OPTICS 10" Newtonian f/5.2, TeleVue 5x Powermate
MOUNT Losmandy G11 equatorial
CAMERA Philips ToUCam Pro SC1 webcam
FILTERS None
EXPOSURE 864 x 1/25th s
DATE/TIME 26/04/2006 11:39 UTC
LOCATION My backyard observatory in west Auckland, New Zealand


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