27 May
2009
27 May
'09
7:55 p.m.
On checking S and T's calendar, Jupiter and Neptune currently are in conjunction and are within a single 1 deg eyepiece view. At 4am tomorrow morning (May 28) Neptune is about 20 arcminutes north of Jupiter. With Jupiter at mag -2.5 and Neptune at mag 7.9, its unlikely that both can be imaged in the same FOV. Running my planetarium program forward, Neptune is 45 arcmins from Jupiter on June 15. Maybe this is a good target to download and test that image processing program that grabs and stacks the best detail from a series of images of the same object taken at different exposure levels as discussed in the "Imaging Solar Eclipses" article of the June 2009 S and T magazine issue? - Kurt