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Thank you!

It was not so bad, as I was only outside for 5 minutes every hour until the last mad half hour. If I'm doing stuff, the cold doesn't bother me too much.

It never used to bother me either, I often did all-nighters in the frost, but now, at 77, I feel the cold and would rather be inside in the warm!  Getting older is no fun,

I will have to take up knitting again.😁

Angie

Good capture.

Very nice!

I really like that, well done!

Very nice for your first image!

Nice set of images.  Well done on sticking it out, it must have been cold out there. brrr

Very nicely captured, pity about the seeing, but there is some detail showing on Mars.  👍

Total cloud here for the disappearance but clear for reappearance, so I watched through binos, and grabbed a few pics with my camera through the dirty window!  It was too cold to even open the window!

I missed my first ever occultation due to being a nooby, I hadn't realised that Saturn was to disappear behind the dark part of the Moon! lol I did catch a Saturn graze though years later, and saw Venus

reappear from occultation. Great events to see.

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Nice images Stuart. When I saw them on my phone I chose the second image, and still prefer that one. 

The first image looks better after the edit.

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Excellent images and animation!

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Very nice!

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Good set of images Neil. Nice detail and processing.

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Great capture and nice processing.

Very nice!

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Good capture Reggie.

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Nice animation.  It looks as though conditions improved a bit towards the end of the animation.

Two good images there Pete.

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Your images just keep getting better!  Great captures, despite the bad conditions.

Nicely done Harvey.  Good to see you posting again.

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Nicely captured Neil.  Very much like the Ganymede/Io transit in August.

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Nice set of images Neil, and a great animation.  Looking forward to seeing more as the season progresses.

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Nice images Reggie, well caught.  I agree with Pete about the Seeliger effect.

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Really nice Simon.  Nice processing again!

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Cracking animation Neil!  I downloaded the hi-res version, much better!

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Many thanks for the comments: Martyn, Neil, Chris & Dragon_Astro.

Dragon_Astro: 

My answer to your question is 'with great difficulty these days'!
Actually the way I do it now is using the out of focus donut.  I first centre Jupiter in the finder scope, and confirm that it is centred in a 25mm eyepiece. I then add a 2x barlow and centre the donut again. This way when I put the camera in  place Jupiter is pretty well focused already.
Obviously it fails sometimes, usually when I can't get on my feet fast enough to get the camera in the focuser. LOL

I don't know how this method came about because I always used to focus on Jupiter in the eyepiece/barlow to get the donut on screen.  Anyway it works for me at the moment so I am sticking with it!

Angie

Really good Mars Neil, a lot of detail showing for a disc of just over 8 arc seconds.

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