Its never an easy decision to cancel astronomy observation plans. The weather prediction looks bad on the night of two shadows, all weather sites are predicting heavy cloud cover.

The event, regretfully, stands cancelled.

Late Night Astrophotography Get-Together

On the night of 22nd August 2021, shadows of Ganymede & Europa will fall on the surface of Jupiter. This relatively rare event is occurring just two days after the Opposition of Jupiter. Aperture Telescopes is organising a get together to photograph the interesting event at our facility at Manesar.

The session will be conducted by Planetary Photographer – Sona Sahani Shukla. Sona will give you an introduction of planetary imaging technique. Talk will be followed by photography of the event. A short session to process the capture before we end the get-together.

We will be setting up our Celestron 14-inch to photograph the event. The telescope has a focal length 0f 3910 mm at f/11, which will be able to resolve fine details on the planet’s surface. If the atmosphere is steady, we may be able to double the focal length for even better images.

Additionally we will also have a couple of large telescopes setup, ready for visual observations of this interesting event.