Can i get a real color image of Jupiter?

Question

Can i get a real color image of Jupiter?

Answer 1

Most of the images of Jupiter you will find on the internet show the same colours which I see through my telescope. Here are some good examples:

http://legault.club.fr/jupiter.html

http://www.damianpeach.com/jupiter.htm

http://jupiter.cstoneind.com/



Often the contrast is enhanced in these images to bring out fine detail, but the colours are 100% accurate.

Answer 2

what, exactly, are you looking for? all the pictures i found were more-or-less natural colour, though the colours were a lot stronger than what you would see in a telesscope.

Answer 3

Uhm. No.



You can certainly get a color image. You can point your color camera through a scope, and with a time exposure, you can get a color picture. And, you'll be tempted to think that these are the colors of Jupiter.



But that's not how your eyes work. In low light, the color bits of your eyes mostly shut down. But - you say - but what if i had a really big scope? Nope. You take your picture as a time exposure, and it's just not the same. So you look through the big scope and get some colors, then you go back to your images and try to make them look that way. But if you had a bigger scope, you'd get different colors. It's hopeless.



So astrophotographers often do not make any attempt at "real colors" - since there's no such thing. They enhance the contrast between colors, and do other tricks to bring out detail. This detail really does exist - it's real.



May as well use a black & white camera.

Answer 4

i get a natural color image of jupiter in my 102mm/1000mmF scope. with my 25mm eyepiece i can see a yellow planet with some redness in the middle. with my 15mm eyepiece i can see 2 red bands and my 6mm eyepiece i can see a rather large fuzzy orange ball. and i can see the 4 moons, i can make out the green color of Io but can't really see the colors of the other ones.

Answer 5

For a true real color image use a telescope and look at Jupiter. It is bright and in the southern sky through the first part of the night.



This links you to a true color image but it is still processed from digital filtered imagery.



http://www.ciclops.org/view/110/Jupiter_Europa_in_True_Color?js=1

Answer 6

I am not sure whether the images located at the NASA site listed below have the filters you refer to, but there are over 300 of Jupiter at this one site.



Maybe one of them does not have the filters? I hope this helps.

Answer 7

you need to take a Midol and go take your own damb pictures , since you don't like any of the ones that other folks take..... give it a rest, willya?....sheesh.........

Answer 8

The source is a bunch of pictures I took myself. It is surprisingly hard to get the color balance just right, but most of these look the same color as they planet does to my eye in the telescope.