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Community photo entitled Jupiter with a large festoon by Guido Santacana on 02/17/2025 at San Juan, Puerto Rico

Jupiter with a large festoon

On 02/17/2025 09:31 pm by Guido Santacana | San Juan, Puerto Rico

This composite of Jupiter features a large bluish festoon along the North Equatorial Belt. For this session I experienced good seeing conditions (7 to 8 in the 10-point scale by Pickering) and mostly transparent skies (4 in a 5-point scale).

Celestron NexStar 8SE (200-millimeter) Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope.
ZWO ASI224MC 1.2 MP Color CMOS Camera.
2x apochromatic Barlow lens.

10,000 frames processed with PIPP, Autostakkert and Registax 6.