A valiant Jupiter

[lukebl]

As we all know here in the Northern latitudes, Jupiter and Saturn are really badly placed right now.

They're so low that neither of them even clear my garage roof so I haven't had the opportunity to observe them this season with my 'proper' telescopes. However, I ventured out this evening with my little 90mm f/13.88 Mak on an AZ GOTO mount and captured just 200 frames of Jupiter with my IMG132e cam. This little beast is a real sod to focus, especially with terrible seeing and the camera was operating at 1/10 second @ 4 fps, but I was pleasantly surprised to actually even capture a little bit of detail! I reckon I might even be able to capture the GRS.

I was great to make a little effort to see an old friend! From left to right, that's Ganymede, Europa, Io and Callisto.

[Pete Presland]

Very nice widefield view of the "king" of the planets!