Jupiter around midnight on the 27th May from Dorking

[broadway1]

The nearly full moon was close by Jupiter as I imaged last night. The seeing was average, and the result doesn't show as much detail as I hoped. 

Clear skies, 

John

[Knighty2112]

Given the average seeing conditions that’s pretty good in my eyes.  

[DougM43]

And mine ?

[MilwaukeeLion]

Nice image especially with bright moon, how do you like your C14?  I keep thinking about swapping C11 for one, not sure my light polluted skies would do it justice.

[broadway1]

Hi MilwaukeeLion,

For planetary imaging I've got noticeably better results since moving to the C14 simply because of the aperture increase. I have no regrets about moving up from a C11 Edge for this purpose. But naturally you have to weigh up the personal satisfaction of an incremental improvement in your own results versus the cost. And you will know of course that there are other things which have helped in planetary imaging such as using an ADC, fantastic software from Firecapture, Autostakkert, Registax, and WINJUPOS, and getting a computer with heaps of RAM. I've also found a 2 inch diameter Barlow (actually a Powermate) made for a slight improvement over a 1.25 inch set-up because it is more rigid and fits very well into the Meade focuser I use.  For deep sky imaging (I use a QSI 583wsg with a focal reducer) the C14 works for smaller targets.

Clear skies, John

[astroman001]

Well done for trying. Seeing has been dire recently.

Best regards

Peter

[celestron8g8]

Well done ! 

[Pete Presland]

Nicely done, very tough in the UK presently for the gas giants! Still some decent detail visible despite the challenges.