You’ve heard about the coming conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. Here is my first picture of it, taken Friday evening (12/4). I used my C11 with Hyperstar and ASI 294MC Pro camera. This is a single image one second long. The field of view is about 2 degrees by 1.2. At this scale there are no details to speak of but you see the moons of Jupiter in the lower right pointing at the oval of Saturn in the upper left. As they get closer, I’ll be able to go to a smaller scale and see more details.
Here’s my best Mars since 2015. Over on the left, that area that looks a little like Africa or a hair dryer is Syrtis Major. That is the first documented land feature on another planet. The large roughly circular area between it and the tiny south polar region is, I think, the Hellas Basin.This was taken from the River Ridge Observatory Friday the 2nd with my 11” at f/10 and my ZWO ASI462MC camera. Best 33% of 34,000 frames. Mars was low when I took this, just about 20 degrees above the horizon. I should and will another time wait for it to get higher.
I captured this image Friday July 24 at around 10 PM with a DSLR with 300mm zoom on my AVX mount at the River Ridge Observatory. I captured about 60 sixty second images and stacked 10 of them for this image. The comet is moving and over the course of an hour it is very noticeable. I tried stacking all 60 but the result looked like the comet had run into an invisible wall. As I write this, I’m trying to stack the sixty in Deep Sky Stacker to try for a still comet and trailing stars and there is only 14 hours left to go before it is done.
