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Global HOU sponsored Jupiter Week, December 1st - 7th, 2000.

Purpose: To observe Jupiter and collect images of Jupiter and its moons around the world around the clock.  Dates and times are recorded in Universal Time. 

• December 1st, 2000

• December 2nd, 2000

• December 3rd, 2000
  20001203yerkes24 Yerkes 24 inch with aperture mask of 6 inches, red filter, NFSI SKYWatch ApogeeAP7p CCD, images taken early morning twilight, Jupiter low on the western horizon, difficulty tracking because of low angle of telescope.  Variable thin clouds.  Images picture three moons and Jupiter.  (Frank Mills, Viv Hoette)

• December 4th, 2000
  20001204mills12  Frank Mills 12 inch LX200 telescope with the NFSI SKYWatch ApogeeAP7p CCD.  Very very frigid and windy conditions.  Jupiter rising in the east.  Images include three moons and Jupiter.  (Frank Mills, Viv Hoette)

• December 5th, 2000
  20001205yerkes24 Yerkes 24 inch, images taken early evening, Jupiter low on the eastern horizon, difficulty tracking because of low angle of telescope.  Images picture two moons and Jupiter.   Thin clouds, variable, frigid temperature.  Blue filter. NFSI SKYWatch ApogeeAP7p CCD.   (Viv Hoette)

• December 5th, 2000
  20001205capefear8 Jupiter sequence from 00:31 UT to 06:00 UT.  Harlan DeVore imaged Jupiter and all four of its bright moons from his Cape Fear Observatory, North Carolina using an LX200 8 inch telescope an SBIG ST7 CCD.

• December 6th, 2000
  20001206yerkes24 Yerkes 24 inch, images taken during evening, Jupiter rising in the east.  Images continue sequence from December 5th and picture three moons and Jupiter.  This set includes a series of 14 pictures taken 5 minutes, 7 seconds apart.  Jpegs of this series are available.  Use these jpgs to construct a movie!  Weather conditions: variable thin clouds, only Jupiter, Saturn, the moon and at times first magnitude stars visible in sky, frigid temperatures.  Six inch diameter aperture mask over telescope, blue filter. NFSI SKYWatch ApogeeAP7p CCD.  These images were taken for Breck School in Minnesota. (Viv Hoette).

• December 8th, 2000
  20001208capefear8 This sequence shows four moons and Jupiter over a period of time from 00:30 UT to 04:30 UT.  Cape Fear Observatory, North Carolina, LX200 8 inch telescope and an SBIG ST7 CCD. (Harlan DeVore)

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01/29/2002

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