The Naked Eye Five

[von Tom]

The 5 closest planets imaged on the night/morning of 18/19th June. All shown at their relative apparent sizes. Mercury shows some hint of detail, Mars is still making a show. Saturn was in pretty good seeing. Jupiter was very low down in poor, poor seeing, with an indistinct Northern Equatorial Belt nonetheless visible. Venus is back from conjunction.

All shot with a Canon EOS 600D in HD crop mode, a 5x Powermate (Mercury, Mars and Saturn with additional 2x Barlow), and a 12" SkyWatcher Goto Dobsonian, manually tracked.

Added a more compact resized image.

Cheers,

Tom

[Clayton]

Nice comparison Tom :)

[von Tom]

Thanks Rob :)

[Lester]

Very nice Tom. The detail on Mars is good for such a small disk now.

[rustigsmed]

great photos Tom, I have pretty much the same set up as you and have no idea how you get consistently such fantastic results!

nice work!

[Quark]

Excellent work Tom, particularly so with Mars & Saturn which I think are outstanding.

Regards
Trevor

[Derek Klepp]

Always like these. Thanks Tom some great detail in Mars and Saturn.

[Shiraz]

excellent compilation Tom. regards ray