~ Jupiter with coloured Belts & Zones, festoons & bright white oval on 24th November 2025 ~
Jupiter will be at opposition with our planet on the 10th January 2026, the planet can be found at the moment in the constellation of Gemini (The Twins).
This image was taken on the last new Moon weekend at the end of November and it shows quite a lot of detail as our two planets come closer together in the night sky.
The image shows the prominent coloured belts (dark bands) and zones (lighter bands) with some lovely dark blue festoons and a bright white oval spot on the North Equatorial Belt. This image is on the opposite side of Jupiter to its GRS (Great Red Spot).
This is the best time now to grab your telescope to view this magnificent planet and take some images, the bigger the aperture of your telescope the clearer the view of the planet.
The image was taken with a Meade LX200 10 inch Schmidt-Cassegrain in my Stardust Observatory at Leyburn, using a ZWO ASI120 MC camera with a 3x Barlow attached. AVI movies were captured with 3000 frames. The frames were then stacked in RegiStax6 and processed in PS.
Jupiter will be at opposition with our planet on the 10th January 2026, the planet can be found at the moment in the constellation of Gemini (The Twins).
This image was taken on the last new Moon weekend at the end of November and it shows quite a lot of detail as our two planets come closer together in the night sky.
The image shows the prominent coloured belts (dark bands) and zones (lighter bands) with some lovely dark blue festoons and a bright white oval spot on the North Equatorial Belt. This image is on the opposite side of Jupiter to its GRS (Great Red Spot).
This is the best time now to grab your telescope to view this magnificent planet and take some images, the bigger the aperture of your telescope the clearer the view of the planet.
The image was taken with a Meade LX200 10 inch Schmidt-Cassegrain in my Stardust Observatory at Leyburn, using a ZWO ASI120 MC camera with a 3x Barlow attached. AVI movies were captured with 3000 frames. The frames were then stacked in RegiStax6 and processed in PS.
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