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Here are last night's (2024-08-06) with the Great Red Spot visible. The darker one was compiled from videos shot with a lower ISO, and was taken before the brighter, second one. You can see the planet's rotation when comparing between the two.

Haven't been on here much, been busy with life and the weather has been kinda trash the past several weeks until just this past week. Jupiter seems to be visible from my balcony now, so I've been learning more about imaging, stacking, and processing. Here is an image I put together this morning. This was compiled with 5 short ~30-40 second videos, roughly ~1.7k frames after analyzing ~7,000, at varying ISO levels. Equipment: Sky-Watcher Classic 250P, Canon Rebel T7, 3x Barlow Lens Software: PIPP, AstroSurface Weather: Clear This is definitely my best processed image so far. Can't wait to get better shots of Jupiter, and apply techniques learned for a better Saturn image tonight. Here is the same image with the moons labeled.

Yeah I just don't like collimating though lol, and I do want to eventually progress toward imaging DSOs. My (small) balcony is where I most frequently image and observe, which would greatly benefit from a relatively smaller scope when needed :P

Sky-Watcher Classic 250P I do eventually want to buy a refractor and a proper mount, but for now this will do

Little better...

Yeah in my 3mm EP it also appears bigger, and you can just barely make out the gap between the planet and its rings if you focus your eye enough. I've spent a couple more days taking photos/videos at various shutter speeds and/or ISO levels, and have been learning to process/stack them. Lots of room for improvement still, as I do feel like I'm doing certain parts of the process incorrectly (any tips from whoever is reading would be appreciated), but I was able to bring out some darker colors of gas I think (could also just be really bad processing). The darkest band is just the rings I'm pretty sure.. I'm going to try different barlow lenses next and continue playing around with camera settings to get it to work with my setup. It has definitely made it a challenge to photograph and learn to stack with! As you can see above, the rings are pretty blurry and have an odd 'shadow' to them.

First view of Saturn in several weeks since it has been extremely cloudy. This is also the first test of capturing Saturn with my new camera (Canon Rebel T7). A 3x barlow lens was used. No processing/stacking, though I did capture some video too that I may use to try and learn how to process/align and stack. Off the top of my head I believe these two photos use ISO 6400, and a shutter speed of 1/60 or so. I'm also pretty sure the white dot down and to the left of Saturn is star HIP115311 https://www.universeguide.com/star/115311/hip115311#facts

Yes it's a DSLR. All settings are default except for shutter speed, ISO, and the countdown timer to reduce vibration when taking the photo, and I didn't do any post-processing/stacking. These are the .jpegs directly from the camera, though I do also have the raw files; I'm just not experienced with editing those yet. I do have some daytime shots, I just haven't posted them yet, and I was still experimenting with the above mentioned settings, so the daytime photos I do have have a very dull/dark blue for the sky.

Thanks! It has been a very rewarding experience so far. First time seeing Saturn in the scope was amazing. Woke up my girlfriend at 5am to come see it I plan to get a shot of it soon hopefully

Am only just starting out with imaging, and getting back into astronomy in general. Bought first scope recently (Sky-Watcher Classic 250P) Both taken with Rebel T7, mounted to the scope, one with no barlow lens and then the other was either with a 2x or 3x (don't quite remember; was a few days ago and didn't note it down)