[Quark (Trevor)]

Hi All,

Jupiter is becoming a more difficult target to image, but we can't really complain to much as we have had far and away the best of it for this apparition.

Started imaging in the twilight, the seeing was poor with a lot of movement but the detail within the image was good.

Have posted 2 RGB's which came up quite reasonably that show a relatively high level of detail, considering the poor seeing.

Imaged Mars from 3:30 am CSST in the worst seeing that I have experienced for this apparition. I have posted one of my IR images. It is truly amazing how good a job the Astronomik IR 807+nm filter does and just how well suited decon filtering is to such very ordinary data.

Imaged Saturn, yep, first time for this apparition. This was late in the morning so I stuck with the same imaging setup as for Mars. I am very pleased to have my first Saturn data set for a long time, however as previously mentioned the seeing was abysmal this morning.

I really needed to image Saturn at a reduced focal length but I didn't really have time to change my gear as the twilight beat me.

The image scale of Saturn using my Mars setup is huge and I look forward to imaging it under better conditions over the next little while.

Thanks for looking.
Regards
Trevor