Hi all, Another fair session on Jupiter from mt. Giogo on last Saturday night!
For the first time I used the very new RGB filter set by Baader Planetarium which are simply great!
The exposure falled down to 32 msec (my old Edmund Optics filter set never allowed me a faster than 44 msec exposure all being equal) and the color rendition is also very good! No add’l IR blocking filter was used.

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Notice the SEB outbreak and the very dark spot in the STB emerging from the eastern limb.

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Hi all! My ordinary job kept me far for a while from my laptop where some Jupiter stuff were parked in.
Find those here:

JUPITER ON JUNE 28-29
JUPITER ON JULY 10

I could capture the GRS and the LRS a while before and after their encounter.
I noticed the GRS has likely “sucked” the orange tint of the LRS throwing away an anonimous whitish spot.

All the images were captured in my trusty Giogo mountain under acceptable conditions. Fair seeing with very poor transparency on June 28/29, fairly poor seeing with excellent transparency on July 10.

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(Hopefully)

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.

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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.

Hi all,

Another fair eve here on May 8th allowed to grab a spotless Saturn getting closer and closer to the Sun.

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Hi all, on May 2nd I could finally capture some storm on Saturn for the first time this year. As a compensation-bonus, I captured the actual nice pair where the following spot is seen as a 45 deg tilted 8 shape.
Such a double spot is also seen in an image captured 8 (yeah, another 8…) minutes later, so I can fairly state it’s real although the odd shape.

The preceding spot is less concentrated and fading over the W-E direction.
The poor transparency caused by thin cirrus lowered somewhat the color contrast. Seeing was steadily fair.

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Also, notice the Saturn bright disc seen through the Cassini division. On late March, the dark rings’ shadow was seen:

MARCH 29 IMAGE

Saturn won’t cease to amaze me!

Hi all, the last image out from Feb. 14 lunar session is for the magnificent Proclus area - one among the brightest of the Moon - grabbed under a very high sun angle.
The crater itself was log stretched to avoid an excessive ground darkening all way around it.

I’m now sure the Moon is also interesting when observed far away from the terminator.

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A new session is yet to come.
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