Mars , Jupiter and perfect seeing..

[eyepod]

Hi, As some others have already said the conditions were perfect this morning at 3am so managed some good images with the Nexstar 4se, i think i got a polar cap on mars also. you can just make out Io in the middle of the GRS and the shadow really helped with focusing. I hope we get more nights like this...

[dweller25]

Outstanding

[hayju01]

superb!!!

[Space Cowboy]

They would be very good images with a 10" scope but a 4" one...wow! Well done Sir!

[FranckiM06]

FANTASTIC & SO BEAUTIFUL.

Franck

[Dave Smith]

Those are really nice. It is good to see Mars is on it's way back.

Dave

[astroman001]

Great images, makes 3am look much better!! Well done.

Peter

[JamesF]

Those are outstanding. Very impressed.

James

[Ags]

Very very impressive!

[zedds]

Agree with all above. Great work.

[brantuk]

Fabulous pics - great to see mars again too

[neil phillips]

Like the middle one the best, well done on getting detail on Mars, not easy at this size

[red dwalf]

well done indeed, but how, and please tell, did you get such fantastic images with a 4" sct, i can`t get anything like that with a 8" version. i feel so useless.

please let us know how you did it.

[Mike Hackenbacker]

absulutely outstanding,seeing those gives me hope

[bigal1]

Excellent images well done , nice to see mars back aswell

[eyepod]

Thank you everyone for your replies

The Mars and larger Jupiter images were done with 2 and 2.5 x barlows together, the smaller Jupiter just the 2.5x. They are all from 3min avi's at 10 frames/sec dropped about 800 frames from each .But i think a lot has to do with the seeing conditions i knew it was going to be good when i first got the image in focus on sharpcap, there was lots more detail than usual and again in registax most of the detail appeared after moving just 1 wavelet slider. such a shame saturn wasn't up there as well..

Jason

[faulksy]

brilliant well done

[Clayton]

Those are rippers Jason

Let's hope you get some more great seeing.

My fav is the middle one as well

[eyepod]

Those are rippers Jason

Let's hope you get some more great seeing.

My fav is the middle one as well

Thanks clayton, weather here is beautiful which is odd for this time of year. Will try and get some more images over the weekend

[AztecastroMcJ]

excellent results again Jason with the 4" Mak there

[Dielectric]

The Force was with you last night, well done, excellent stuff!

[Scosmico]

Hi eyepod,

Thanks for sharing these pictures. It is quite inspiring for me. i also have a 4se. Would you be kind to tell me what is your high power eyepiece for visual used for jupter and mars and tell me a bit of the equipment required for me to start taking pictures as well?

Thank you

Scosmico