Using a technique called “lucky imaging” — a technique used to record hundreds or thousands of images over a short span of time (similar to a camera’s burst mode) in order to capture high-resolution images of astronomical objects (and has nothing to do with luck, by the way) — researchers were able to reconstruct this magnificent image of Jupiter.
This one, showing the entire [planet] in infrared light, was compiled from a mosaic of nine separate pointings on 29 May 2019.
From a lucky imaging set of 38 exposures taken at each pointing, the research team selected the sharpest 10%, combining them to image one ninth of Jupiter's disk. Stacks of exposures at the nine pointings were then combined to make one clear, global view of the planet.
Wow!
(Image Credit: International Gemini Observatory/ Noirlab/ NSF/ Aura M. H. Wong (UC Berkeley) and Team Acknowledgements: Mahdi Zamani)
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