By Prince Osuagwu
A Nigerian journalist, Citizen Astronomer and astrophotographer, Kelechi Okorie, has captured planet Jupiter and the shadow of its closest moon, Lo, as it sweeps across the giant gas planet.
Okorie is an Information and Communications Technology, ICT reporter with City People magazine.
He described the phenomenon as akin to the eclipse whereby the shadow of the moon sweeps across the planet by obscuring the light from the sun. Lo and the other three closest moons to Jupiter periodically cast shadows on the planet, sometimes three of them at the same time.
The image was captured from Latitude 6.6036 degrees in Lagos Nigeria and despite what is called a poor seeing condition in astronomy and a high cirrus cloud preventing better resolution, the image was captured using, a ZWO cloned planetary/guiding CMOS camera and a 127mm maksutov-casse grain telescope, aided by a 2x Barlow lens.
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