[iceman (Mike)]

Saturn is already out of orbit for me, and has been for months. Anything in the west I just can't see because of trees in my backyard.

So with Jupiter rising so early and crossing into the west so soon after dark, it's going to be gone (for me) before too long as well.

Uranus and Neptune are conveniently placed for some imaging between 11pm and 1am, so I might have to concentrate on those.

I think it'll be time to start focussing more attention on the moon .. with no gas giants and Venus moving to an evening object (in the West!) it'll be something to spend some more time on.

Saturn starts rising again in the early morning towards the end of October, but it'll still be very low for us down South.

Jupiter starts rising again in the early morning at the end of January 2007.

Mars starts rising again in the early morning towards the end of February 2007, but takes a long time to trek north and won't rise very high again for us down South.

So not a whole lot of planet imaging to look forward to once Jupiter disappears.. could be several months of imaging the moon before Saturn gets high enough for us.