Jupiter!!!!

Tonight was a great night, not only was the seeing good, I finally got to image Jupiter!!! Now it may not look as pretty as some otheri mages of Jupiter, but it was done with my Digital Camera, held to the EP with my camera mount!!! I cannot see any detail on the Gas Giant, its basically a glowing ball. However suprisingly in some of the images I was able to capture 3 of the 4 Galilean Moons, the 4th was infront of the Planet and out of view, according to the graph below:

Io
Europa
Ganymede
Callisto (infront of Jupiter)

Jupiter has over 60 moons but only 4 (listed above) are able to be seen from small telescopes.

Here are the images I was able to capture of Jupiter:

This is an unedited image of Jupiter.

Here is an edited image, with the contrast and brightness boosted to show 3 of the Galilean Moons Io, Europa,Ganymede, and Callisto (not shown)


Date: March 14th, 2005
Time: 10:00PM EST
Location: Driveway of 111 Reed Drive
Seeing: Good
Site Conditions: Cold
Eyepiece Used: Stock 25mm
Instrument: NexStar 114GT with Kodak 4330DX Digital Camera and mount.