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Lovely animation, Luke!

Nice one, Michael!

Ouch! I would love to see him but that is a bit much! 👀

4 hours ago, Stu said:

Very nice! Thanks for posting as I missed seeing any of Jupiter last night due to inevitable cloud 😞

I saw your thread and posted there as well

EDIT: Oops, sorry that thread was started by @CentaurZ

The sky was mostly clear to partly cloudy and I was fortunate to get a window between 9 and 10 p.m. EST to capture the double shadow transit here from the States. Ganymede's shadow is the larger of the two on the bottom left (moving toward bottom center) and Europa's is on the lower right, approaching the limb. The moons themselves were as follows: Io to the upper left, Europa lower right, and Ganymede bottom right (farthest out). The GRS was also visible making it a pretty spectacular apparition!

Orion 180mm Mak-Cass, ASI 224mc, Firecapture, Registax 6, Photoshop

Regards,

Reggie

16 minutes ago, Stu said:

Very nice! Thanks for posting as I missed seeing any of Jupiter last night due to inevitable cloud 😞

You're welcome, Stu. It was touch and go there for a little while. Eventually, the clouds rolled in later so I'm chuffed to have gotten this!

The sky was mostly clear to partly cloudy and I was fortunate to get a window between 9 and 10 p.m. EST to capture the double shadow transit here from the States. Ganymede's shadow is the larger of the two on the bottom left (moving toward bottom center) and Europa's is on the lower right, approaching the limb. The moons themselves were as follows: Io to the upper left, Europa lower right, and Ganymede bottom right (farthest out). The GRS was also visible making it a pretty spectacular apparition!

Orion 180mm Mak-Cass, ASI 224mc, Firecapture, Registax 6, Photoshop

Regards, 

Reggie

Not bad at all, Mike. You got the green glow and evidence of the tail!

Reggie

Lots of detail in the first image. Thanks for sharing

Regards, Reggie

Lovely image. Nice balance of color and texture. Great GRS!

Looks great, Ian!

I like the bold colors in the first image. The second image has a nice texture.

Reggie

Beautiful smooth image. Nice texture and color

Regards,

Reggie

Transits are always cool! Glad you captured this one 👍

Reggie

Very sharp shadow! Brilliant animation 👍

Reggie

That's a fine image, Peter. As has been said many times before, "the seeing is everything" especially for planetary work 👍

Regards, Reggie

I like the sequence of your images. I can see Io, its shadow, and the GRS on the move. Would make a great animation

Reggie

Exquisite images and animation! 👍👍

Good image, soft on the focus (due to the seeing), but nice colors and moons 

Reggie

Another brilliant image, Kostas. I see that feature you mentioned; could it be some kind of message??

The things we do for astronomy, eh? Don't get hypothermia, my friend!

Reggie

Bravo, Luke! I love watching shadow transits

Reggie

Nice work, Fedele. Thanks for sharing your image

Reggie

Nice work, there Pete! Each image has its charm. Sometimes, I prefer a bolder look, and others a softer touch. I love them all (if not too noisy, lol).

As you stated so truly, "always nice to be under the stars" 🤩

Gorgeous mistake, Kostas. You can make wheat out of chaff, a testament to your processing skills as Geof noted. Great moon shot, too. This looks like a lovely painting

Regards, Reggie

29 minutes ago, geoflewis said:

Thanks Reggie, however, I've had a couple of very experience and highly respected planetary imagers review my image and they are not confident to call it, so as @Space Cowboy said, it's tantalising, but maybe not a done deal. Regarding minimum aperture, I'm not sure. @Kon has no issue capturing the polar hood with his 8" dob, but the only images of the rings that I have seen are from 16" and 18" scopes. I think that I should be able to get them with my 14" in excellent seeing, but until I do, then I guess the jury is still out.

Thanks for the aperture info, Geof. And as long as the jury is still out, we can at least enjoy the possibility of their being the actual rings