Mars, Saturn and Venus 10th April

[John Hothersall]

SPX350, PGRFlea3, Baader RGB, IR742, UVenus filter. Mars/Sat F39.1 Venus F27.5

Variable seeing started to settle for only one good Mars set, it took a while for the cloud to move so I was out a bit later. Saturn only gave one good set too before avg seeing settled in for the night.

I waited up till 6am local time for a Venus try with IR742nm and Astrodon UVenus filter combination - Venus is 20" and 58%phase. Wind stayed away fortunately, I found the UV filter hard to focus owing to the noisy image. The images needed strong sharpening to show anything. I think this shows Venusian cloud rather than sharpening artifacts.

Mars 1309hrs UT
Saturn 1312hrs
Venus 2000hrs UT

Thanks, John.

[redbeard]

Magnificent!

[ourkind]

Superb work John!!

[Dennis]

That’s quite some rare trifecta you have there, John. Bravo on pulling an all-nighter, it really paid off with these quite astonishing images!:)

Cheers

Dennis

[dutch2]

Well worth the effort. Beautiful detail.
Great job, well done.:thumbsup:

[Sebbie]

Fantastic captures John! I might have a crack myself soon now that the weather is finally clearing..

Rgds, Seb

[Astro_Bot]

Amazing shots. :thumbsup:

[hotspur]

That really is a big effort-all night! amazing results! great to see!

[cometcatcher]

Incredible detail!

[John K]

Excellent John - really like your Venus shot too - how do you process your Venus images?

John.

[SkyViking]

Most excellent! That's certainly a solid set of images. Great work :thumbsup:

[Clayton]

Very nice John :thumbsup:
Loved Saturn and Venus, but thought Mars just a tad over processed IMHO :shrug:
Still way better than anything I have managed this year :P