A number of successful planetary imaging campaigns using the 0.5 m Swedish Vacuum Solar Telescope (SVST) at La Palma, the Canary Islands, have been conducted by members of the Planetary System Group. Following the observations of Mats Lindgren et. al. of the Jupiter-D/Schoemaker-Levy 9 impact event in July, 1994, the SVST was used by Johan Warell and Uri Carsenty (DLR/Berlin) for Mars imaging in February-March, 1995, and for Jupiter and Mercury imaging in October, 1995, by Johan Warell and Marcus Gunnarsson.
The instrument was also one of the select few able to conduct visual and near-IR CCD imaging of Jupiter in support of the Galileo Atmospheric Probe performing in-situ measurements on December 7, 1995.
The SVST is well known for its high resolution capabilities partly due to the vacuum tube construction and excellent site. The CCD images on the following pages were taken with Kodak Megaplus 1.4 8-bit (1360x1035 array) and 1.6 10-bit (1536x1032 ) cameras and were processed by Johan Warell.
The use of the instrument has been possible by the assistance of telescope manager Prof. Göran Scharmer and Wang Wei at Stockholm Astronomical Observatory, as well as Rolf Kever and Göran Hosinsky at the SVST, La Palma.
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