Jupiter, photographed every 15 minutes on August 25, 2024 between 00:30 and 05:30 UTC when the first eclipse had already begun.
I started photographing at 22:30 UTC but the first photos are not good because Jupiter was very low on the horizon, and in the following photos you can see an improvement of the quality of the images as time goes by.
This is a video putting together all the photos:
These are every single photo of the video:
00:30 UTC: Jupiter has north at the top, the dot at the bottom left is the satellite Io and the black disk on Jupiter’s surface is Io’s shadow
00:45 UTC: Io is almost at the edge of the planet, it will soon be between us and Jupiter
01:00 UTC: Io is between us and Jupiter, perhaps just visible as a white disk against a darker band
01:15 UTC: Jupiter’s rotation continues
01:30 UTC: Jupiter’s rotation continues
01.45 UTC: Io’s shadow is no longer visible and a second shadow has appeared, caused by the satellite Europa, which is on the left but outside the field of view of the photo
02:00 UTC: Jupiter’s rotation continues
02:15 UTC: Jupiter’s rotation continues
02:30 UTC: Jupiter is now much higher in the sky, seeing is much improved and you can appreciate some details on the surface of Jupiter, in the lower dark band, near the edge on the right there is a white disk that could be the satellite Io, meanwhile Europa has appeared in the lower left
02:45 UTC: Jupiter’s rotation continues
03:00 UTC: Io reappears on the right
03:15 UTC: Jupiter’s rotation continues
03:30 UTC: Jupiter’s rotation continues
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