The opposition of Jupiter was December 7, 2024. On the night before the skies finally cleared up and seeing was average. Clouds did roll in later that night, but I was able to get my C14 set up, in focus, and on target prior to capturing just over an hour of sixty second videos.
The best frames of each video were stacked to produce a single image. Each of the 59 images were then processed to produce the time lapse video shown above.
As a bonus, one of Jupiter’s largest moons, Europa, was just beginning to transit across in front of Jupiter. The moon and it’s shadow can be seen in the video.