Amateur Telescopic Jupiter Images Options

[stevesliva]

Phil over at Bad Astronomy has an incredible couple things from amateur astronomer Damian Peach:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastro...ger-of-jollity/

Peach's been mentioned around here before, but that's just incredible. Here's his own writeup:
http://www.damianpeach.com/barbados10.htm

[algorimancer]

That's amazing stuff. The fine detail captured on Ganymede is awesome --- back in the 80's one of my more challenging accomplishments was 'just' resolving Galileo Regio through my 6" scope (I sketched what I saw and validated later to be sure I wasn't deceiving myself). These pics seem as good or better as the Pioneer 10/11 images.

One detail I recall from the Pioneer flyby (11 or 10, I forget which), as described in Astronomy magazine at the time (may have been Sky & Telescope, but probably Astronomy), was a reference to a "polar cap" seen in the images of Ganymede (almost certain it was Ganymede, though it may have been Europa). This image gives a similar impression:

http://www.damianpeach.com/barbados10/2010_09_18gany.jpg