GALLERY u STORMY GIANT Grant Blair Jupiter sports a thin North Equatorial Belt and a turbulent South Equatorial Belt in this detailed image from August 4th. Grayish festoons decorate the Equatorial Zone, while several white storms speckle the gas giant's southern hemisphere. DETAILS: Meade 12-inch LX200 ACF and ZWO ASI224MC camera. Stack of 29,000 video frames. q ANDROMEDA AND FRIENDS Patrick Manley Dark dust lanes wrap around the bright core of M31, the Andromeda Galaxy. Two of its largest dwarf galaxy companions, M32 (center left) and M110 (bottom), show faint halos of stars connecting them with the gargantuan spiral. North is to the left. DETAILS: Celestron 8-inch Rowe-Ackermann Schmidt Astrograph and ZWO ASI2600MC Pro camera. Total exposure: 1.66 hours. 78 DECEMBER 2022 * SKY & TELESCOPE