First for the season

[Mickoid (Michael)]

Grabbed this around 2.30am this morning. Testing out my newly acquired manual filter wheel. Beats taking the camera out of the focuser every time I had to change the filter! This was a short sequence of LRGB taken with my guide camera - the ZWOASI120MM. The seeing was poor and my best 1 minute take was with the Luminance filter which fortunately added the majority of the detail to the image. Most of the time Jupiter was wobbling like a jelly fish so I wasn't expecting much but I got enough of an idea to know how things will work when the planets near opposition.

Taken with an 8 inch f5 Newtonian on an old EQ5 RA driven mount. Eyepiece projection with a 6mm eyepiece stuck with tape to a 2X Barlow.

P.S. I've added a cropped version as it looked a little small on screen. and Saturn taken on the same night with same set up.

[Startrek (Martin)]

Mick
Good effort considering unstable conditions
Just a slight tinge on the lower left side edge
Planet would have been in a good position nice and high above you at 2.30am
Thanks for kicking off planetary season
Well done !!

[Tulloch (Andrew)]

Nice start to the season, I can't believe you went out last night, it was blowing a gale where I was! Looks like Thursday night will be a good night to image Jupiter, with clear skies forecast and a double moon crossing with the GRS visible!

Andrew

[Imme (Jon)]

Go Mike!

Last night was bloody awful up here.....talk about commitment!

Lovely detail on this, really well done and an extra few points for effort

[Mickoid (Michael)]

Thanks Jon, Andrew and Martin for your comments. I posted this late on Saturday night so I was actually referring to early Saturday morning/Friday night and so there was only a slight breeze at times. Not like last night here in Melbourne, Jupiter would have been shaking like jelly because of the scope wobbling around by the wind, not the atmosphere.

[Tulloch (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by Mickoid

Thanks Jon, Andrew and Martin for your comments. I posted this late on Saturday night so I was actually referring to early Saturday morning/Friday night and so there was only a slight breeze at times. Not like last night here in Melbourne, Jupiter would have been shaking like jelly because of the scope wobbling around by the wind, not the atmosphere.

Oops! Yep, should've checked the posting date, it was much nicer yesterday morning