Hi all, on June 22 I climbed up to my holy mount Giogo to give the murker Jupiter a try.
Once again, that place gave me a bit of its magic!
The seeing at 24 degree altitude was unbelievably good from there on that night (at the zenith should have been close to 10/10), so I could grab my best Jupiter images since 2006!
If months ago someone would have told me such a result was possible, well, I would have laughed till the bellyache!

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Any way, although setting, the BA oval (GRS Jr) looks like very faded while the small red oval preceding the GRS is very concentrated looking like a ruby.
The usual turbulent tail following the GRS is on a nice display into the SEB.
The NTB is nothing short of beatiful with that green rim running inside!

Now I know miracles are possible somewhere, I think I’ll try Jupiter again on this summer…

Hi all, here my latest pan-image out of Feb. 17 session: the mare Humorum and more.

The much lower sun angle helped somewhat the processing but the tonal range balance was a pain in order to keep bright areas as not burned out and half shadowed areas not too dark.

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The mare Humorum is definitively surrounded by fractures all way around it, most are shadowed and not visible here in the image.

More to follow.
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Hi all, from now on, I’m pleasured to share with you a wide collection of lunar seas which took the best of my patience!
For this reason, my processing was much slower than usual.
I composed 3 or 4 frames each image and often the stability varied from a stream to another getting my task even harder.

The first big portrait is with Mare Serenitatis grabbed under a very high sun angle putting on evidence any albedo marking and hundreds of craterlets spreaded all way around.
This is a 4 frames mosaic, the bottom-right frame suffered with the poorest seeing. Very disappointing indeed!

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Hi all, Another “aged” lunar session from dated Feb. 17.
I was lately very busy with my ordinary job, I’m now going through my backlog of lunar images parked in my HDD.Here’s imaged the Kepler area under a low sun angle showing several domic structures all way around.
But the “pimply” area around Marius A crater (whose western rim is visible here on the left side of the image) is amazing indeed!
It looks like a downscaled version of the best known Marius hills lying westward not so far from here! The enhanced (gamma 0.7) inset image show these much better.
I wonder what those are.

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Hi all, on June 10 I gave Jupiter my very first attempt this year feeding very little hopes to get some decent image out because its murky altitude from here.
But I had an unexpectedly good seeing on that morning when the sky was getting brighter and brighter and the planet was falling down to 22 degs.
Transparency was poor given the 95% ground umidity turning Jupiter into a yellowish star.

Here you can find the image:

The tricoloured NTB is nothing short of amazing indeed at these longitudes! I never noticed such a beatiful revival so far!

Hope to have more opportunities like this one over next summer.