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Jupiter appearing flashy - red on top, blue bottom
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[QUOTE="sophiecentaur, post: 6529020, member: 199289"] If it's a atmospheric effect then wouldn't everything else be doing it too? If there's something special about planet viz, compared with stars then Saturn is not far away from Jupiter in the sky and you could expect the same weird effect. From a quick dabble with Stellarium, it seems likely that Big J is South and high in the sky (40deg up) at around midnight in Houston. In UK it's low at the mo and hard to see at its best. We have to wait for a couple of months, I think. There is another possibility and that is the OP's actual vision (or dirty glasses??). J is pretty bright. But he says it's similar with binoculars. However, X8 is not a lot of magnification and J doesn't look very big - just brighter - until you use a bit of telescope magnification. It's very bright though and could be giving his eyes a harder time than anything else up there. (The Moon can be so bright that it's painful through a big scope and could give bad chromatic effects at its edge.) Planetary imaging tends to need a specialised scope with long objective + Barlow if you want to get a lot of pixels. A new club member was moaning, the other night, that he can't get convincing views of Jupiter and didn't seem to take my point about needing different gear for planets. (I blame all those stunning images that people post these days). PS I suggested a possible vision problem because early cataracts seriously hamper my seeing many stars. It's only in dark conditions that it's a problem and your regular eye test doesn't explore that problem. The problem is that we (sufferers) often regard our vision as normal. (Same with hearing and my daughter made me get 'Deaf Aids' - magic! Bless her) [/QUOTE]
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