A recent paper, discussing radio observations to probe Jupiter’s atmosphere below its visible cloud layers, makes use of images obtained in the visible domain by amateurs (among who is Manos Kardasis). They investigate ammonia gas from ~0.5 to ~10 bar (almost 100 km deep), and how it is distributed in …
The need for Professional-Amateur collaborations in studies of Jupiter and Saturn Emmanuel Kardasis, John H. Rogers, Glenn Orton, Marc Delcroix, Apostolos Christou, Mike Foulkes, Padma Yanamandra-Fisher, Michel Jacquesson, Grigoris Maravelias The observation of gaseous giant planets is of high scientific interest. Although they have been the targets of several spacecraft …
I was able to take a series of IR images from Skinakas telescope and Manos Kardasis did all the job with the processing. Here are the results:
In late August 2012 we (me and Manos Kardasis) tested the video capture method for planetary imaging using the 1.29m Skinakas‘ telescope. Although not aware of what problems to expect we finally didn’t encounter any (as Manos had been really working on this with great care and caution) but for …