The Dutch Observatory

I put the 5 images from this morning in a little animation showing the moon Europa approaching Jupiter from the left, while its shadow creeps over the planetary surface on the right side of the disk. Two of the 5 images were pretty bad, so the best images are shown during the movement of Europa. Click on the blank image below to start the animation.

My first Jupiter session of the season.  This morning I did capture 5 filtered images.  This is probably the best of the 5.  It is fun to image Jupiter again and not have to worry about the number of photons coming in like when imaging Saturn at this time.  Jupiter is more than twice the size of Saturn with much light to spare.

Finally the bad weather gave us a short break and for two days we had relative nice weather to image.  One day I used to try to capture the ISS again, which this time I did not manage to get. (Was looking in the wrong spot )  The second was tonight and wanted to get another Saturn.  Saturn is getting high in the sky now and soon will be obstructed by the trees on the west side of my property.  So here another Saturn with Enceladus below the planetary disk, captured  under OK conditions, with disturbance coming occasionally from the vortices of the planes coming over and drifting in the field of view.