Five planets in one night:

[yeti monster]

Whilst waiting for the scope to settle down and for the sky to get darker, I started my night with the crescent moon, finding a lunar iceberg hanging just off the southern tip of the crescent.

Then over to Venus, as usual, far too bright to actually see any kind of detail, but looking so nice in wide field.

Whilst the sky was still light I found Mars by sweeping the area I was expecting to find Saturn in (still no stars out yet) and was able to Barlow the 5mm Hyperion on to it. A quite steady image but no detail.

Once the sky had become dark enough to allow a few stars out, Saturn was easy peasy, conditions were variable, with Saturn drifting in and out of focus, but offering good detail and ring shadow during those moments of clarity.

A few fuzzies then a couple of hours snoozing, so that I could be out again in the wee small hours to look at Jupiter, but mainlt to locate Uranus, as I wanted to nail this one in the UK. A pleasing little green dot, I managed the 5mm hyperion, but lost contact when attempting to Barlow. As the sky was becoming ever more light, I decided to concentrate on Jupiter untill returning to bed for some proper sleep.

[richbyers]

nice report, ive been meaning to stay up for jupiter and uranus myself, though everytime i do clouds role in!

rich

[Earl]

The midle nipper was restless this morning so i was woken up at around 3.45, i sneeked a peek out the window and there was Jupiter twinkling away, i dont have much of a easterly view from myscope spot so im waiting till autum.

[billinforres]

Great stuff.

I managed to take a pic of five planets, six if you count the Earth on 5th May 2002.

Hope I can get the image to insert, I call it Streetlights 1, Planets 5.

Bill

[yeti monster]

Great pic, you should have taken another with a bag over the street lamp!

[LukeSkywatcher]

Brilliant image. The phase of Venus is very striking.

[kris h]

5 planets one pic Brilliant

[billinforres]

Hi Paul,

Phase of Venus is not genuine, I think it must have been a hot pixel or something like that.

Bill