Frank J MELILLO #238
Letters to the Editor

from Frank J MELILLO in CMO #238

@ . . . . Venus 12/2/2000. Here are my latest images of Venus in UV light. The seeing was average and it was pretty low in the sky. They were taken about 1 hour before sunset when Venus was high enough for UV imaging. Venus displays two dusky streaks parallel with each other. Quite impressive!
(3 December 2000 email)

 

@ . . . . Here are my latest images of Jupiter. After you download it, you might say "Oh my God! Why so many images?" Well, I am trying something different. I had imaged constantly for nearly three hrs. I want to make a short animation of Ganymede and its shadow moving across the disk. I cropped each image very careful so they won't jump around during the playback. After I made a short animation, believe me, it is incredible!! It is almost like watching Jupiter's rotation from the Voyager II spacecraft with images of Io crossing the disk!! In addition to Ganymede and its shadow, you can see tons of features rotating with the planet. What strikes me the most are the details around the North Polar Region (NPR) and as well as the SPR. Overall, they are hard to keep track them. Most features are hard to see in still images.

(8 December 2000 email)

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@ . . . . Now, here are my latest images of Jupiter 12/5/2000. OK, I have only four images this time (not twenty) of the GRS in all different wavelengths. The images from left to right are: Wr. #47-violet, integrated light, Wr. #25-red and methane absorption band at 8900nm+/-10nm. You can actually see the intensity of the GRS from dark (violet) to light (infrared). Pretty neat!!

(9 December 2000 email)

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Frank J MELILLO (NY, USA) :  FrankJ12@aol.com