A great tour of the planets last night 17 November

[Averton (P and C)]

We have just completed processing all of the videos from last night and ended up with images of Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus and Mars in the order in which they were taken. It was a great evening viewing all the planets!

Meteoblue reported seeing of 2 arc seconds, indices of 4/2 and jet stream 18m/s. This, for once, seemed to be under-estimating the actual conditions as we had pretty steady previews and both Mars and Uranus are the best captures of them we have managed to date.


All images taken with 6" SCT, ASI178MC, 2x barlow and ZWO ADC.

[Tinderboxsky (Steve)]

A great set of images, Clare and Peter.

[Dave882 (David)]

That’s a wonderful set indeed! Especially your Jupiter pic - you manage to glean exceptional detail out of your 6” and even perhaps some albedo features in Ganymede. Mars is also looking good. Great work!!

[Crater101 (Warren)]

Outstanding captures! Lovely bit of work right across the board there. Love the planets...

[Averton (P and C)]

Thanks Steve, David and Warren for your positive feedback. The planets are wonderful to image and the reason that both of us started in astronomy in the first place

[Simon-W (Simon)]

That's an impressive gallery!
Simon

[Averton (P and C)]

Originally Posted by Simon-W

That's an impressive gallery!
Simon

Thanks Simon

[ahmed_haider (Ahmed)]

Well done! All the planets look amazing in your photos, you bought out great detail!

[Averton (P and C)]

Originally Posted by ahmed_haider

Well done! All the planets look amazing in your photos, you bought out great detail!

Thanks Ahmed

[N1 (Mirko)]

Very cool set of images! Well-captured and processed. Particularly liking the two outermost planets. It appears you didn't just get lucky with the weather but also with your particular sample of 6-inch optic.

[Averton (P and C)]

Originally Posted by N1

Very cool set of images! Well-captured and processed. Particularly liking the two outermost planets. It appears you didn't just get lucky with the weather but also with your particular sample of 6-inch optic.

Thanks Mirko, much appreciated. There's a Youtuber that refers to astronomy purchases as being the "astro lottery" suggesting that there is a huge variation in quality of astronomy items. Our experience would concur with this. Having bought a good number of scopes, this 6" is definitely one of our luckier purchases. We aren't planning to get rid of it anytime soon