Jupiter on Flickr - Photo Sharing
I’ve blogged about this guy before, but this is one of those places where amateur is really cool. Flintstone Stargazer is a flickr contact who does astro-photography (as well as other kinds). In addition to posting his astro-pics, he also posts pictures of his equipment set-ups, the impromptu devices he makes to get things to work (mounts, stabilizers and the like). He’s been taking a lot of pictures of Jupiter recently:
Jupiter was my big “discovery” when JRube got me a telescope for Christmas years ago. I was on the roof of my Brooklyn apartment, in February and was drawing pictures of what I saw (like Galileo!), and found four dots — one big one with three smaller ones — all on the same plane. Remembered that’s how Galileo found the moons, check my maps and sure enough it was Jupiter. A few weeks after that, after consulting maps and schedules, I was able to see the red spot. Nothing like the clarity of the photo above . . . my telescope wasn’t that strong, and there’s too much ambient light in Brooklyn.