Incredible high-resolution video of Jupiter

Bad Astronomy
By Phil Plait
Nov 18, 2011 6:00 PMNov 20, 2019 4:43 AM

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The Pic du Midi observatory in France is renowned for its very stable atmospheric conditions, allowing high resolution pictures to be taken. Our air commonly blurs out finer details of astronomical objects; there are ways to compensate, but it's nice to not have to worry about it in the first place. So pictures of the planets taken from the 2800-meter-elevation observatory are surpassingly beautiful. I was searching online for some Jupiter info yesterday, and stumbled on a video of the King of the Planets made using observations from Pic du Midi from October 10 - 15, 2001, and, well, it's stunning. See for yourself:

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