9 December, 2012. Combination of 2000, 0.05 second images.
ImagingSource DMK video CCD in monochrome mode. 20" f/6.8 Dall-Kirkham cassegrain with a 2x barlow lens.
It is interesting to compare the appearence of Jupiter at this time, to that of a year ago. The South Equatorial Belt has fully reappeared, giving Jupiter a more "normal" appearence. Also during the interval, a new "Little Red Spot" had appeared just south of the Great Red Spot.
As can be seen by looking at the moon in the above images, the seeing on this night was not good, so I tried some images without the barlow to see if the results would be any better. The moon to the left of Jupiter is Io, while to the right is Ganymede.
