Kevin Earp

You caught Wargentin nicely 👍

Thanks Tony 🙏

Thanks. The limb is nice to image when seeing is good

Thanks

Thanks Dave

5 image wide-field mosaic of the south-west lunar limb, imaged with the Moon 99.8% illuminated.

Celestron C11 with Player One Uranus-C camera
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Full Moon a few nights ago. A favourable libration and good seeing allowed some great views of the region around the South Pole (roughly indicated by the arrow)

Imaged with an 11" SCT at prime focus
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Sadly it's often overlooked by many

Thanks Mike. Appreciate that 🙏

Thanks. Yes, I didn't get a chance to try Saturn! Hope you got some good images

The Alpine Valley.
The only shot I got of the Moon last night before cloud moved in 😫.
A faint trace of the central rille is just visible.

The scope was still cooling down so the seeing was quite wobbly. Sometimes you take what you can get.
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Jupiter showing prominent cloud belts and the great red spot near the central meridian

Jupiter, just after midnight on 26th Nov.
The seeing wasn't the best but was slowly improving as the night progressed.
Taken with my Celestron C11 and Player One Uranus colour camera
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Saturn with its rings being presented nearly edge-on. The dark line is the shadow cast by the rings onto the cloud tops

Saturn imaged on the 25th in fairly poor seeing.
This is just a few hours after the rings were at their narrowest angle to us, being tilted at only 0.37°.
They will now begin to slowly open up again over the next several years until they're fully open in 2032.
Can hardly wait 😄
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Great sequence 👏

Yeas, I'm not 100% certain I got it, but there appears to be a small projection from the planet glare in exactly the right position, so it is possible.
I'll keep trying for a better image!

Thanks.
Yeah, I use an ADC. Altitude was 32° which is about as high as it gets for me at the moment.
Sometimes I think an ADC is more trouble than its worth though!

It was pretty noisy during capture but stacking a lot of frames deals with the noise. I did very little in post, other than mild sharpening and levels adjustment

Thanks.
Thats fair enough!
I may be mistaken but I see a slight projection from the circle of glare, right on the edge. This is in exactly the right position, but it would be nice if it was clearer for sure. I'm going to keep trying for it!

Thanks

Thanks. I didn't image Neptune sadly

2 images - one of Uranus, and one of the 4 brightest moons, composited together. A few background stars can also be seen (unlabelled)

Final image of the Uranus system from the 17th.
This is a composite since the brightness difference between planet and moons is too great to record them all in a single image without over-exposing the planet.
Miranda is not shown as it was too close to the glare of Uranus to show separately
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An over exposed image of Uranus, with its 5 brightest moons. The innermost, and faintest, is Miranda, which is only just visible on the edge of the glare from the planet. This is the first time I've been able to record Miranda

Uranus and its 5 brightest moons.
Miranda is the closest to Uranus and is about 50,000x fainter than the planet, making it a challenge to capture in the glare of the planet.
This is a 24 image stack. Uranus is over-exposed to help record Miranda. It's just visible on the edge of Uranus' glare!
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Uranus, a blue-green ice giant around 2.8 billion km away

Uranus imaged on the 17th Nov with my Celestron C11 and Uranus-C camera at prime focus.
No detail is visible on this distant world, at least not without appropriate filters, which I dont have!
Quite pleased with the result though
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Saturn. The dark line is the shadow of the rings which are currently neatly edge-on

Saturn, imaged a few nights ago.
Seeing wasn't great but quite pleased with the result.
Although not quite edge-on, the rings are just about at their narrowest for this season, at 0.39° open with the South face in view.
They'll be st their narrowest next week
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The huge Clavius crater with its distinctive circlet of craters crossing its floor

The wonderful Clavius crater in the Moon's Southern highlands. I love this crater as its so distinctive, and the many craters within it, with a wide range of sizes, makes it a great test of imaging and scope resolution.
The smallest features visible in this image are around 1 mile across
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The winding Hadley Rille

Hadley Rille, landing site of the Apollo 15 mission, and one of my favourite features to try and image.
It's quite tiny, nestled in the foothills of the Apennine mountains, and needs good seeing to get a decent shot.
Taken on Tuesday morning with a C11 scope
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Thanks Mick 🙏

Cheers Martin 🙏

Thanks 🙏

Indeed. The equipment available to amateurs these days is amazing compared to only a few years ago