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Old 20-03-2020, 11:25 AM
foc (Ross)
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Mars and Jupiter 18 March

Hi, perhaps I should have put this in the beginners area.

Just want to alert solar system enthusiasts, beyond the more experienced imagers who would already know this, that the planets are rising high enough (above 30 degrees) in the early morning hours before dawn to get decent images now (weather permitting).

I am not a particularly fine imager but even I managed to capture these images at close to 6am with my stock C8 fitted with 2.5x powermate and ZWO ASI224mc on my Celestron Alt Az EVO.

Saturn is also a good morning target now but shown here are Mars featuring Syrtis Major and Jupiter with Ganymede and Io's shadow.
Edit : Should note that I have increased size of the Mars image by x 1.33...Mars is still very small at this time.
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