Pete Presland

Excellent images Avani, well explained about the effect as well.

Lovely sharp Saturn image!

Excellent images, some very nice detail there.

Fine set of images there Geof, especially with the current altitudes and conditions.

Some nice detail there.

Some nice details visible there, the planets are pretty difficult at the moment.

Looked superb out of the spare bedroom window at that time as well.

This a great topic for a challenge, its been really interesting watching all the coverage recently.

A belated happy birthday, lovely sunset, that is a lot of wind turbines out there. 

Thanks you Freddie, can't imagine taking that picture a few years ago with a phone!

They are pretty good single shots to be honest, its not an easy task imaging the planets at these altitudes.

Blink and you will miss them at the moment!

Its a bitboring, but a feel a real sense of anticipation for the coming years as the minimum ends and the new cycle "hots" up!

That didn't last long, already vanished according to Spaceweather.com

55 minutes ago, Geoff Barnes said:

Yes I find that too, the black shadows on the Jovian surface always look much bigger than the moons themselves, perhaps an optical illusion?

I can't really say I've seen any colour in the moons either, though I did think Europa had the slightest yellow tint to it with the 4mm SLV the other night. 

Isn't that because of this effect

My oldest item is this book, nor sure where I got it from though. It comes complete with rather naive childish scribbles on the star charts.

I guess I probably early teens circa 1980.

19 hours ago, Paul M said:

I had these too but They are all long gone

I loved this book. Wore it out nearly.

Not sure if it's still in the loft or if it's "Moon, Mars & Venus" from the same stable up there.

I had that as well, it got donated to a local astronomy society only a couple of years ago!

Very nicely captured, I think the ADC is certainty a help downn at the current altitude.

Nicely captured.

A fine image, a decent level of activity especially for the aperture.

Nice capture, there have been odd reports of cycle 25 spots for quite a while. I guess the previous cycle will keep going for a while, slowly being replaced by the new cycle. We have got a while to wait for the return of some Decent level of activity.