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Sep 2008
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European Planetary Science Congress 2008, Proceedings of the conference held 21-25 September, 2008 in Münster, Germany. Online a
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Abstract The last two decades have witnessed a revolution in the possibilities for the imaging of the bright planets using small telescopes (<0.5m aperture) coupled to fast frame-rate CCD cameras, using fast PCs and image processing-software. Amateurs have developed these techniques to a level where they are capable of providing much information on the development of the atmospheric features of Jupiter and Saturn that is complementary to the information gathered by probes and large professional telescopes. The particular value of the amateur contribution lies in the long-term and complete nature of the coverage, with observers stationed all over the globe. Organisations such as the British Astronomical Association (BAA) can collate the results from these observers to create a record of the longer-term large-scale developments of these atmospheres which is not available from any other source. This presentation explains briefly the methods commonly used by amateurs working in this field and assess the resolution obtainable, the reliability of the results and influence of personal factors in the way the images are processed. The work of the BAA Jupiter and Saturn sections and the international JUPOS (Database for Object Positions on Jupiter) project on analysing the feature drift-rates on Jupiter and Saturn is outlined, demonstrating the form in which the data is produced, and mentioning some recent results and published work on Jupiter.
Arditti David
Foulkes Michael
Rogers John H.
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