First for the season

[Mickoid]

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! :lol: 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]

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]

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]

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]

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. :D

[Tulloch]

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