[Tulloch (Andrew)]

Hi all, for those not on CN, another early start on the coldest Melbourne morning since August last year, with the Mercury sitting at about 2*C.

Jupiter was less than 2 degrees away from the almost full moon, so it probably not ideal for imaging. However, the five videos I took of the planet came out pretty well, the two shown were the best of the morning.

Saturn was nice and high also, I took a few images of it and the best is attached.

Mars is obviously still pretty small, but I was able to get some surface features showing up.

Finally, I noticed that Neptune was nice and close to Mars, and since the red planet wasn't offering much, I set out to image Neptune. After a bit of hunting, I was able to grab a few videos of Neptune, and even managed to evince Triton with some levels action in Photoshop. Note that the image of Neptune and Triton below is a composite, with Triton's brightness and size shown larger than actual.

All these images taken with my Celestron Evolution C9.25" with TV 2.5x Powermate and ASI224MC camera. The Jupiter images are from a stack of the best 7500 out of 26000, Saturn used the best 5000 out of 18000, Mars the best 5000 out of 60000 and Neptune used the best 2000 out of 6000. Jupiter and Saturn shown 50% larger than captured, Mars and Neptune shown at double captured size.

Andrew