These two brilliant planets were at minimum, as observed from Edgware, just under a degree apart, so, very unusually, they were visible in the same telescope field at the 900mm focal length of my 100ED refractor.. I had never seen … Continue reading
Category Archives: Jupiter
This was my first image of 2016 and first of Jupiter this apparition. I had good seeing on the morning of the 1st, but transparency was rapidly falling when I took this, and there was a halo around the Moon … Continue reading
Seeing not so good as on the 10th, but as usual I’ve eked something out here using the LRGB process with L=R. Click to enlarge. … Continue reading
Here’s some further images from December 10, but the other end of the day. These were taken well before culmination, which was good because after midnight the sky, which had been stable for some time because of high pressure, fogged … Continue reading
I had a busy night; seeing was unusually good for this location. Ian Sharp reported exceptional seeing in Sussex as well, but Damian Peach, in a different part of Sussex, reported poor seeing, strangely. First row are RGB composites. Second … Continue reading
A couple of images from early in the apparition. Seeing not up to much. … Continue reading
This morning saw unusually good seeing for this location. The diffraction pattern of Aldrebaran which I use to collimate with on screen looked almost perfect. Unfortunately there was cloud as Jupiter culminated at midnight, and it took a long time … Continue reading
I only managed to get a single RGB run of 3 mins total (about 3500 frames total) in on this occasion due to cloud, so detail is not great despite fair seeing. … Continue reading
Trying to bring my Jupiter processing a bit more up-to-date. This image from the 14th was constructed from an RGB,RGB,RGB sequence, all one minute videos. Seeing not great. … Continue reading
On this date I only managed to get one 60s video through the red filter before it clouded. Pity as the seeing was good. Here’s the result. … Continue reading