Jupiter with a moon's shadow
A moon's shadow passing across Jupiter's clouds.
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When a moon passes between the Sun and Jupiter, it casts a shadow on the cloud tops, visible as a sharp dark dot. Such shadow transits of the Galilean moons recur regularly and are a favourite target of planetary imagers.
How the image was made
- Captured
- 15 December 2023
- Total exposure
- video, keeping only the sharpest frames
- Processing
- Topaz Photo AI 2.2.0 (Macintosh)
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