[Mickoid (Michael)]

Took these at around 3.30am on Friday morning. I had an RDO so it was an opportunity to catch all three before sunrise. Finished up about 4.00am, quite chilly and the seeing was variable but good enough to catch some detail with the Canon 550d on movie crop mode. Saturn was shot at 1600iso, Jupiter 800iso and Mars 400iso. Mars is still rather small at the moment, especially with an 8 inch Newtonian but the 5X TV Powermate produced a reasonable scale to see some features. The RA motor on the old EQ5 wasn't tracking very well for Jupiter and Saturn probably because the scope was virtually pointing straight up. A problem our Northern Hemisphere followers would love to have!