Jupiter, Ganymede & "Seeing" Conditions
Channel: Tim Campbell
Date: 2016-03-28

This shows the effect of atmospheric "seeing" conditions while attempting to image Jupiter on March 25, 2016.  Jupiter was 4.48 au from Earth at the time of this recording and is only 44 arc-seconds from edge-to-edge (angular diameter).  Two of Jupiter's moons, Callisto and Ganymede are also shown.

The video is shot using a Celestron C14 (14" Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope) with a focal length of 3910mm.  The camera is a Canon 60Da but I used the 640x480 "crop" mode (it doesn't use the full sensor - just the center) at 60fps & 1/60th sec images using ISO 400 on Jupiter and ISO 800 on Ganymede.