Colour Images of Jupiter, July 14th 1994

This series of images were each constructed from three images of the planet
made with the Bochum 60cm telescope on La Silla. They were combined to yield
a "true colour" view of Jupiter. The first two frames show the satellite
Europa crossing the disc of the planet and also the famous great red spot.
The last picture shows the shadow of Europa on the disc. The pictures were
taken roughly one hour apart.

The observers were Carsenty and Mottola and they were using a DLR CCD
imaging system. Each image is a composite of about 5 one second exposures.
Three near-IR filters were used, centred at 727nm,750nm and 893nm
respectively so the colour is not really "true".