Astronomers have captured some of the highest resolution images of Jupiter ever obtained from the ground using a technique known as lucky imaging

The observations, from the Gemini North telescope on Hawaii’s dormant volcano Mauna Kea, reveal lightning strikes and storm systems forming around deep clouds of water ice and liquid. The images show the warm, deep layers of the planet’s atmosphere glowing through gaps in thick cloud cover in a “jack-o-lantern”-like effect.

Bubblecar said:

Astronomers have captured some of the highest resolution images of Jupiter ever obtained from the ground using a technique known as lucky imaging

The observations, from the Gemini North telescope on Hawaii’s dormant volcano Mauna Kea, reveal lightning strikes and storm systems forming around deep clouds of water ice and liquid. The images show the warm, deep layers of the planet’s atmosphere glowing through gaps in thick cloud cover in a “jack-o-lantern”-like effect.

That’s an amazingly good image for a ground-based telescope.

The “lucky imaging” technique has been used since … well I remember an example from the 1960s. The “lucky imaging” method was largely superseded by adaptive optics, but is still valuable for bright objects, such as Jupiter.

From way back. Contact Anthoney hudson or brett Goodwin
Or Martin Smirh