Hi all. Find here a couple of images recorded on August 8 and 9 under mediocre conditions.
Nothing of relevant to report.

JUPITER AUG. 8

JUPITER AUG. 9

More to follow.

Hi all, a new Jupiter session was grabbed through the IR band only due to the very short spell of good seeing happened last night.
When switching to the RGB setup, the seeing unexpectedly falled to very poor.

JUPITER AUG. 7
The BA oval (Red Spot Jr) left the CM, please note the nice activity all way around the south polar region.
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Hi all! On August 1st I catched one among my best ever night on Jupiter despite its ridicoulous 31 degs above the horizon!
These images are coming out of Apuanian Alps, elevation 1200 meters above sea level, where transparency was also excellent.
Visually, the impact scar was still obvious (!) as a dark segment parallel to the SPC.
The same happened in the visual band (RGB) where the scar is still very prominent respect to the IR, but you can see here a defragmentation into 3 parts probably due to the interaction with a local oval.

JUPITER AUGUST 1

Wish I could get some more night as the last one…
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Hi all, Find here below a new set of images taken in the near IR under a thick sea fog (!) causing a very poor transparency.
Seeing was fair with some nice steadyness through the passing clouds.

JUPITER JULY 30-31

Find here a 140% rescaled version of the last shot:

JUPITER JULY 31 - 140%RESIZED

Nothing much to say about this Jupiter face.
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  Hi all, Another new image of Jupiter, now showing the impact spot slowly approaching to the GRS:

JUPITER JULY 29

Fair seeing and very excellent transparency at mt. Giogo 1500 meters elevation.
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  Hi all, Another new image of Jupiter, now showing another dark spot caused by Io transit:

JUPITER JULY 28

Seeing very poor with some decent stability happened during this capture.
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Hi all, I could finally give my sabbatical year an end when I learned about Anthony’s discovery and I couldn’t resist any more to put my hands on Jupiter!

On July 27 I had a nice opportunity to grab the impact area under decent seeing through an IR pass filter:

JUPITER JULY 27

This is my first decent image out in 1 year!

The impact area was very evident at the eyepiece and looks like a solarspot with 2 well condensed nucleii rather than a single dark spot strecthed by the local jetstream.
I’d like to hear your comment.

Alas, I couldn’t take a color RGB image due to the quickly falling stability happened a while after.

This image was grabbed with a Gladius telescope on loan by a customer of mine for an important upgrade.

More to follow.
(hopefully)

Hi all,

Here another lunar mare image out of June. 10th session under mainly fair seeing and average transparency. Sun setting at the time of the recording.

The elusive mare Smythii is normally seen edge-on along the eastern limb, but the favourable libration brought it better in view.
Processing wasn’t that easy because of the very low contrasted ground.

IMAGE

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Thank you for your attention.

Hi all,

This is likely my best image out of May 14 lunar session when thin clouds faded away and seeing steadied for a while.

To be noticed the rough texture of the lunar ground all way around the north polar area, the odd and wide “spot of light” centered above Anaxagoras crater and its weak radial blankets on the right side of the image.

Also, some suspicious bump not so far from Fontenelle crater (lower left corner) across the dorsae starting from its crater rim.
It’s too bad I couldn’t grab the area south of it!

IMAGE

More to follow.
Thank you for your attention.

Hi all, my jovian season has been closed on August 3rd because of the regular poor seeing here from that night on.
But I could capture the southern gas giant for a whole week at that time, find here below any image.

JUPITER JUL. 28
JUPITER JUL. 29
JUPITER JUL. 31
JUPITER AUG. 2
JUPITER AUG. 3

Of course, the planet was always in its murky low 20s. Sorry for my late posting but this is actually the best I could do lately.
Thank you for your patience.