Jupiter and Saturn near opposition, 15 July 2020

[Tulloch (Andrew)]

Hi all, for those of you not following the Cloudy Nights website, here are some images I took a couple of nights ago in very good seeing with both planets near opposition.

Unfortunately I had to reduce the size of the Jupiter animation to fit under the tiny 200 kB file size limit. Saturn shown at 150% captured size (with the moons shown larger and brighter than actual), Jupiter shown at captured size. The moons of Saturn shown are (L-R) Rhea, Enceladus, Mimas, Tethys, Dione and Titan.

Andrew

Capture details: Celestron Evolution C9.25 with TV 2.5x PowerMate and ASI224MC, Jupiter 150 fps for 3 minutes, Saturn 100 fps for 5 minutes, stacked in AS!3 with 3x drizzle, sharpened in R6 and final touches in Photoshop Elements.

[Saturnine (Jeff)]

Excellent images, good to see the conditions co-operated for you.

[Camelopardalis (Dunk)]

Nice shots Andrew

[Nikolas (Nik)]

The shot of Saturn with all the moons was astounding

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

nice work Andrew, some nice detail on Jupiter and I really like the Saturn/moons composite.

[Quopaz (Nick)]

Very nice, that Saturn with the moons looks really good.

[LostInSp_ce]

Great images Andrew the dynamic composition of last one with Saturn and its moons is superb.

[Retrograde (Pete)]

These are great - really enjoyed the Jupiter animation despite the size restriction.

[Tulloch (Andrew)]

Thanks all, nice to get some good seeing for a change