My Jupiter double transit at BBC Sky at Night magazine

[Kon]

I never thought that my planetary images are on the same level of serious imagers but I was super excited to get hold of the current issue of Sky at Night, albeit the Instagram section, with my Jupiter image I captured back in October and posted here. It's great to see it in print. All the help I have got from this forum is amazing.

[JeremyS]

Congratulations 

[Space Cowboy]

Well done Kostas! Another feather in your cap 😉

[Ratlet]

Bet the tracking of that would have been a bit easier than the ISS!  Cracking pic.  Do they contact you before or do you just find out when it is published?

[Kon]

15 minutes ago, Space Cowboy said:

Well done Kostas! Another feather in your cap 😉

Yes very happy on top of my SGL mug. A good end to 2022.

[Kon]

1 minute ago, Ratlet said:

Bet the tracking of that would have been a bit easier than the ISS!  Cracking pic.  Do they contact you before or do you just find out when it is published?

Thanks. Indeed, iss has helped with planetary a lot as they move at a snail's pace 🤣. Yes they did contact me in advance. I knew it was coming but seeing it in print is quite nice.

[Stu]

Well done Kostas, richly deserved. It’s a great image 👍

[RT65CB-SWL]

That's a fantastic image @Kon  

[Graham Darke]

Nice one! 

[geoflewis]

Congratulations Kostas, that's brilliant and very well deserved - whatever is your main interest in this hobby, you ARE a serious imager and seriously good at it too...👏

[Kon]

10 minutes ago, geoflewis said:

Congratulations Kostas, that's brilliant and very well deserved - whatever is your main interest in this hobby, you ARE a serious imager and seriously good at it too...👏

Thanks Geof. You are very kind. I have really enjoyed my first year of serious planetary imaging. The other part of the hobby that really excites me is observing nebulas (not imaging), but a bit neglected in recent months due to the planets.

[geoflewis]

39 minutes ago, Kon said:

Thanks Geof. You are very kind. I have really enjoyed my first year of serious planetary imaging. The other part of the hobby that really excites me is observing nebulas (not imaging), but a bit neglected in recent months due to the planets.

I keep telling myself that I like observing, which is all that I did until I took early retirement over 10 years ago and got into AP. Nowadays, all I seem to do is take images, with planetary work my clear favourite. I did buy myself a pair of 22x85 binos and parallelogram mount a few years ago, so that I could do some wide field observing whilst the main rig is taking DSO pictures.

Edited December 14, 2022 by geoflewis

[yelsac]

Congrats mate, I bet you're buzzing 👍

[Kon]

54 minutes ago, yelsac said:

Congrats mate, I bet you're buzzing 👍

Thanks, yes a very pleasant surprise.

[ScouseSpaceCadet]

Fantastic, well done! 🤳