The Mars Odyssey spacecraft took the below portrait of the Earth and Moon on its way towards Mars. The image was taken from more than two million miles from Earth and it shows the actual sizes and distance between the Moon and the Earth. The image is a composite of approximately 21 images assembled in Adobe Photoshop. This image of Jupiter was made with a Quick Cam digital camera and is a stack of 16 images picked from about 700. Paul did the stacking in a program called Paint Shop Pro and Rick processed the stack in Maxim DL .
North is up and the red spot can be seen almost exactly on the central meridian.
It was a pretty good night and this image represents how Jupiter looked visually during times of steady seeing. I'll never forget it. Rick used Maxim DL to sharpen the image by first splitting it into the individual red, green, and blue components.