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General Discussion => Science & Nature => Topic started by: Clive on March 16, 2010, 21:43

Title: Jupiter’s Spot Seen Glowing
Post by: Clive on March 16, 2010, 21:43

Scientists Get First Look at Weather Inside the Solar System’s Biggest Storm.


http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1010/

Great picture in the link.  Any moderate-size telescope will enable you to observe the Great Red Spot but I've never seen any colour in it myself!   :-\

Title: Re: Jupiter’s Spot Seen Glowing
Post by: sam on March 17, 2010, 02:49

10 and 20 micron images help. I guess its quite hard to deal with the brightness even at these frequencies.