Jupiter | 2021


22 August | 10:12 UT

29 August | 10:02 UT


29 August | 11:22 UT. Gaymede and Europa appear very close to one another at left.


2 September | 11:14 UT. Io at left, Ganymede at right. Europa and its shadow are transiting (Europa, barely legible among the planet's cloudtops, is about half-way between its shadow and the right limb of Jupiter).


3 September | 10:02 UT

3 September | 12:15 UT


7 September | 08:04 UT

12 September | 07:55 UT


12 September | 08:57 UT

12 September | 09:22 UT


18 September with Europa | 07:38 UT

18 September with Io | 09:05 UT


18 September | 09:59 UT

18 September | 10:34 UT


20 September with Ganymede transiting | 09:37 UT


Later on 20 September; Ganymede's shadow now visible | 11:03 UT


Later on 20 September | 11:34 UT


Last image from 20 September session | 12:42 UT



24 September | 07:40 UT

Below, a short time lapse animation (looping) capturing Jupiter's rotation over the course of about 20 minutes, 24 September.



Later on 24 September, with Io | 10:03 UT



25 September, with Io | 07:10 UT



26 September | 09:15 UT



28 September | 06:53 UT


28 September | 08:33 UT

Below, an animation based on a global map of Jupiter assembled from imagery made on the nights of 28 and 29 September.





4 October, with Europa (left) and Callisto | 06:59 UT


4 October, after the appearance of Io (left) and with Europa and Callisto transiting | 07:35 UT


Last image from 4 October, with Europa and Callisto transiting | 08:21 UT




8 October | 06:45 UT




13 October | 06:40 UT




15 October, with Ganymede | 07:06 UT




7 November, with Callisto's shadow | 08:23 UT




8 November | 07:36 UT


8 November | 08:02 UT






Images made with a Schmidt-Cassegrain 11-inch telescope; stacks of frames made from image sequences using a monochrome camera through red, green and blue filters.