Jupiter-Neptune 13 April

[N1]

Apart from visually observing it, I also managed to grab some video of this event. Altitude was low, and the seeing pretty unremarkable (making the moons appear bigger than they are), but you can see what's going on. Dynamic range was a problem (but will be MUCH worse during the Venus-Neptune event 28th), so I made 2 different attempts at showing it in one picture. One a composite from 3 different streams with no object overexposed to give a rough impression of the visual appearance, the other simply a stacked stream that greatly overexposed Jupiter and its brighter moons but showed Neptune much better & Jupiter added back in from the other stack.

Left to right: Europa, Jupiter, Io, Neptune, Callisto

An enjoyable morning that one.
Forget Triton though

CC8, ZWO L, ASI294MC (an ADC would have helped a lot)

[multiweb]

Excellent. :thumbsup:

[Averton]

Neat work!

[Tinderboxsky]

Well done.

[Dave882]

Fantastic! I’m so glad you captured this -I was kicking myself for missing it as was away for the school holidays!

[Maberly1959]

wow, thanks for sharing, much clearer than I was able to achieve

[N1]

Thanks guys, I find uneven conjunctions quite a challenge to image but it's still lots of fun. The eyepiece view was great.

[foc]

Good work with the 8 inch. Even finding Neptune in the predawn lit skies is no mean feat unless your go-to is nearly pixel perfect. Nice balanced processing

[rustigsmed]

Awesome work!