Object: Jupiter Date: February 16, February 18, 2001 Scope: Vixen VISAC - 8 inch f/9 catadioptric Cassegrain with a 15mm Meade Ploessl eyepiece for 2X projection Camera: SBIG ST237 Detail: Composition of several images taken during two nights of very clear skies but rather modest seeing. Each image is an average of 10 to 30 images LRGB. The B&W shot with Io and Europa is Red light only. All in all, during the two nights I took around 600 images of Jupiter with CCDOPS for Windows 4.16 All images processed with AIP for Windows and Prism 4.13 with final color processing performed with Picture Windows 3.0 Notes: This was my second serious attempt to planetary Ccd work. I've learned a lot as far as seeing and telescope collimation (which is still far from perfect on my Visac) are concerned. I must say I have a strong preference for deep sky photography. Note2: While processing the images I run across this beautiful verse from the libretto of the opera Peter Grimes, by the great contemporary English composer Benjamin Britten. Here it is, if you care to read on: ''Now the Great Bear and the Pleiades where the Earth moves, are drawing up the clouds of human grief breathing solemnity in the deep night''.