geoflewis

Well done Neil, I got it from South Norfolk too…. iPhone 14 10s handheld

It's a cracking image Dave. As others have said, you're too harsh on yourself.

Excellent images Kostas, good to see that you’ve broken the back of the collimating issues. Whilst you’ll still need the ADC for Saturn, with Mars and Jupiter both up at ~60 deg elevation later this year, it’s questionable whether there’s any benefit using an ADC for them. I found that the loss from the additional ADC prism glass was greater than the gain from dispersion correction on Mars once it was above ~50 deg last time around. It will be a case of try it and see. Unfortunately, Mars is going to be a pretty small (<15”) this coming apparition - we never get the best views when it is high in the northern hemisphere. Those in the southern hemisphere are the ones that periodically get it both big and high. Geof

I was very pleased to find this waiting for me when I returned home after my replacement hip surgery done on Wednesday (14/02). Thank you.

Thanks for the 2nd place and congratulations to Kostas and Nigella for their respective 1st and 3rd places. There were many great images posted, so I’m really pleased to make the top 3.

Wow Kostas, you don't hang about...!! Sorry that I've only just seen this thread and what a great first light 👏

Fantastic images and video diary. How does that star glow filter work, I’ve never heard of that before?

Very nice Harvey.

That's lovely Kostas, very nicely done.. The saturation is just enough to bring out the colours without becoming garish.

Excellent images

A very nice Jupiter swansong for this apparition Kostas

Excellent image Harvey. It's good to see how much more of the left limb is passing into jovian nighttime shadow since opposition nearly 3 months ago.

Very nice image Harvey. I think it was a good night as I've seen a few decent images of that double pre occultation event. Unfortunately I didn't cjeck what was coming up and chose that day to swap my planetary rig for DSO camera and rebalanced the scope, so I missed imaging it. It's nice to see what you and others got though.

It's worth experimenting with the LD. I change mine sometimes, but usually between 0.65 amd 0.8, so Kostas suggestion of 0.7 seems good to me.

Nicely captured Ian, but there's an artefact on the left limb, which may have come from WinJupos, so I'm wondering what LD value you used for derotation, also whether you used manual derotation?