Jupiter, Mars & Saturn Dec 27th

[Quark (Trevor)]

Hi All,

Imaged Jupiter this morning in rather ordinary conditions but have some detail in my rgb's and as always the IR saved the day.
Have Oval BA and the region following BA.

Imaged Mars this morning in rather ordinary seeing.
Have attached 1 RGB & 742nm data set.

Imaged Saturn this morning as one of the research teams I support are currently imaging Saturn with the IRTF in Hawaii and requested comparison data.
Have 2 quite reasonable 742nm IR data sets captured at alts of 23 & 26 degrees and also an RGB at 25 degrees. The seeing didn't really do much for the RGB but the result is the best I could do for the conditions.

Have also attached an animation of the 2 IR data sets, nothing jumps out with regards to any discernible bright spots but if you look closely some rotation of the hex vertices is visible. Am very pleased with this IR data captured at only 23 degrees alt.


Regards
Trevor

[Dennis]

Hi Trevor

Wow – what a busy morning, an excellent series of images to capture within a single session. It is very interesting to compare the different apparent angular size of these distant solar system bodies given that they were all recorded at F16.7.

Hope that 2014 brings you excellent seeing!

Cheers

Dennis

[Quark (Trevor)]

Thanks very much Dennis, yes certainly a busy morning, have been up since 12:30am this morning. The Mars images have been resampled 150%, both Jupiter & Saturn are at the native F/L of my current imaging setup which is F16.7 with the ASI120MM.

[Saturn%5 (Graeme)]

A very nice collection Trevor

[allan gould]

Nicely done Trevor to capture all three planets so well.
Allan

[Lester]

Thanks for the views Trevor. All the best.

[Stefan Buda]

Hi Trevor,

I also imaged Mars a few days earlier and the Elysium cloud came up a funny pinkish colour like on your image. That's not how I remember it from past apparitions but maybe it is the small angular size and the poor seeing to blame.

Stefan

[Solar (Ralph Smith)]

Nice Trevor.
I like the Mars shot.
I tried Jupiter a couple of nights ago and I though they were no good, but I guess it was the seeing. I will post it.