December 12, 2022: Finally some half-decent planet weather

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Had a quick bash at Jupiter before it got too low behind the trees, and was able to catch a bit of shadow transit

Seeing wasn't brilliant, but at least I didn't get too much in the way of clouds

I then turned to Mars, which was higher in the sky. The first shot, taken at 20:18 already showed some nice detail

The second was taken almost two hours later, at 22:10:

I think I can make out Olympus Mons and Alba Mons in the north.

All pictures taken with my Celestron C8, with Siebert Optics 1.3x Tele-Centric and ASI183MC camera. The Jupiter shot is a stack of 20% of 9000 frames, the Mars shots 20% of 10000 frames and 40% of 20000 frames respectively.

 

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

On my other monitor I notice a bit of a ringing effect on Jupiter in particular. Will do a reprocess later