Jupiter and saturn

[AstroNebulee]

Hi

I managed to wake up around 4am this morning and got a view of jupiter and two moons which were to the left and saturn as well to the south in North Cornwall, only on my 76x300mmm celestron cometron scope with 10mm ep, my new barlow is still shipping so couldn't use one but was happy to see what I did and only making me get the bug more for it 

[AstroNebulee]

On 09/05/2020 at 14:15, LeeHore7 said:

Hi

I managed to wake up around 4am this morning and got a view of jupiter and two moons which were to the left and saturn as well to the south in North Cornwall, only on my 76x300mmm celestron cometron scope with 10mm ep, my new barlow is still shipping so couldn't use one but was happy to see what I did and only making me get the bug more for it 

 

[DeathWarpedUp]

Good stuff, bear in mind they are not in the best placement tight now, so on the right night the views can improve noticeably.

Saturn's rings (however small) are always a wow moment.

[DeathWarpedUp]

Also buy a cheap "moon & sky glow neodymium filter (not to be confused with a moon filter) off a certain auction site, usually around a tenner for a 1.25. Some people say they can help with the views on jupiter.

The important thing with both of them is to spend time just watching, allowing eyes to adjust and having your   eye/ body as comfortable as you can so you can concentrate.

If the moons out, expect the moons glow to make seeing worse on everything except the moon itself. Also if you plan to observe the moon, do it last as it has a habit of screwing your viewing up in other targets for the rest of the night due to its brightness

Edited July 5, 2020 by DeathWarpedUp

[jonathan]

Sometimes different coloured filters can help bring out detail in planets such as Jupiter, you might be able to discern different cloud bands with different filters, some may just improve contrast.  As already said, keep looking and concentrating and the detail should come to you, but don't blind yourself if the planet is too brilliant to look at, use a moon filter to dim it down a bit (there are variable moon filters available, a fixed Neutral Density moon filter might be too much for the detail).  Of course, using a coloured filter means you will get a tinted view of the planet, it's mostly just so that you can see different details.  The same method applies to nebulae, there are specialist filters recommended for that purpose.

[AstroNebulee]

On 05/07/2020 at 11:19, DeathWarpedUp said:

Also buy a cheap "moon & sky glow neodymium filter (not to be confused with a moon filter) off a certain auction site, usually around a tenner for a 1.25. Some people say they can help with the views on jupiter.

The important thing with both of them is to spend time just watching, allowing eyes to adjust and having your   eye/ body as comfortable as you can so you can concentrate.

If the moons out, expect the moons glow to make seeing worse on everything except the moon itself. Also if you plan to observe the moon, do it last as it has a habit of screwing your viewing up in other targets for the rest of the night due to its brightness

Hi

I have now bought a svbony sky glow filter which has helped a little in showing the 2 main bands on Jupiter a bit and have an 80a blue filter on order as they says its the Swiss army knife if filters and may help but realise that Jupiter is still to low down at the moment, I'm using my new skywatcher explorer 150p eq3-2 now and can definitely see a difference even using a 3x barlow, have taken done videos on sharpcap last night so will process them now the clouds are rolling in the next few nights

[JOC]

On 09/05/2020 at 14:15, LeeHore7 said:

4am this morning

Is that because you have a limited view in some directions.  I was awake at 11pm the other night and they were both hanging nobly in the sky somewhere around S-SW if I had a scope out I would have had a lovely view from our grass verge.

[Stu1smartcookie]

2 hours ago, JOC said:

Is that because you have a limited view in some directions.  I was awake at 11pm the other night and they were both hanging nobly in the sky somewhere around S-SW if I had a scope out I would have had a lovely view from our grass verge.

Crazy how the view can change in just a few metres ... from my little garden the planets just clear the roofs ... 30 mtrs down the road they are literally riding high in the sky . All down to elevation of the viewing site of course . 

[AstroNebulee]

12 hours ago, JOC said:

Is that because you have a limited view in some directions.  I was awake at 11pm the other night and they were both hanging nobly in the sky somewhere around S-SW if I had a scope out I would have had a lovely view from our grass verge.

This was back in May this year and the planets have now changed position slightly, I have a limited view of of just after east to nearly south, its elevated, so the angle to Jupiter and Saturn isn't that much, if I was lower down the planets would be higher but difficult to get lower 

[Anakin Skywalker]

I got a good view of Jupiter and Saturn a few nights ago in the evening at about 7.30 p.m. These are a few pics taken using my Samsung galaxy A20 smartphone and Celestron Nexstar 6SE SCT. Pretty satisfied with the results and with a little bit of playin around with contrasts and stuff, produced some pretty good results.

 

Jupiter with great red spot visible (barely!)

 

Jupiter with the 4 Galilean moons

 

Saturn

 

Saturn zoomed

Here's To clear skies☄🔭

May the Force be with you.

Edited August 12, 2020 by Anakin Skywalker

[Marvin Jenkins]

On 22/07/2020 at 22:48, LeeHore7 said:

This was back in May this year and the planets have now changed position slightly, I have a limited view of of just after east to nearly south, its elevated, so the angle to Jupiter and Saturn isn't that much, if I was lower down the planets would be higher but difficult to get lower 

Great thread. Everyone is doing really well and the ep shots are great. #Stu1smartcookie, elevation is everything as you rightly point out. If you can get get a bit more altitude by moving location the effect can be dramatic.

On a personal note about filters, I tend to use yellow for Jupiter and err towards green for Saturn, but a week ago I decided to test all my colour filters in one sitting and found on that night, under my conditions, Blue really picked out the equatorial bands, the GRS and at the time a disturbed area which turned out to be a barge!

A first for me, and I doubt I would have seen it with my usual colour choice. Experimenting is the key I guess.

Marv

[AstroNebulee]

7 hours ago, Anakin Skywalker said:

I got a good view of Jupiter and Saturn a few nights ago in the evening at about 7.30 p.m. These are a few pics taken using my Samsung galaxy A20 smartphone and Celestron Nexstar 6SE SCT. Pretty satisfied with the results and with a little bit of playin around with contrasts and stuff, produced some pretty good results.

 

Jupiter with great red spot visible (barely!)

 

Jupiter with the 4 Galilean moons

 

Saturn

 

Saturn zoomed

Here's To clear skies☄🔭

May the Force be with you.

Some great images there, I've yet to get the GRS but hope to soon when I get a clear night, plus now I've fitted a RA motor to my mount on my skywatcher eq3-2 I can keep the object in my vision longer than trying to manually track or just watch it zoom across the screen, the latest images of Jupiter and Saturn I've had a few weeks ago. I did try to view Jupiter last night with Ganneymeade transiting across the surface of Jupiter but was to cloudy. Clears skies to you all. 

Edited August 12, 2020 by LeeHore7

[AstroNebulee]

1 hour ago, Marvin Jenkins said:

Great thread. Everyone is doing really well and the ep shots are great. #Stu1smartcookie, elevation is everything as you rightly point out. If you can get get a bit more altitude by moving location the effect can be dramatic.

On a personal note about filters, I tend to use yellow for Jupiter and err towards green for Saturn, but a week ago I decided to test all my colour filters in one sitting and found on that night, under my conditions, Blue really picked out the equatorial bands, the GRS and at the time a disturbed area which turned out to be a barge!

A first for me, and I doubt I would have seen it with my usual colour choice. Experimenting is the key I guess.

Marv

Hi Marv 

I've yet to try any filters on the planets, I've a 80a blue and a skyglow filter in my case if I want to use it, but kind of like the natural view I get of Jupiter and Saturn, I will use the 80a blue when I next image Jupiter to see the differ as you suggest. Clear skies 

[Stu1smartcookie]

I keep forgetting about filters !!! .. I will try these out the next time we have a good clear night , which by my reckoning will be october 5th  . Even in this heatwave the cloud seems to roll in every night zzz