Planets of September 2020
Taken by Maximilian Teodorescu on September 13, 2020 @
Magurele, Romania
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Date Taken: 2020:09:15 14:40:16
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Here are the three evening to night planets that dominate the view through the eyepiece. From my location (45 N) both Jupiter and Saturn are low above the horizon and excellent seeing is required to detect details on their surfaces. Jupiter is now ravaged by three disturbances that bring chaos in the NEB (Northern Equatorial Band). One is detectable as a bright spot in this image, followed by turbulent shapes in the NEB. Saturn's polar hexagon is also seen, but only in the Near Infrared views. Mars, the star of the moment, shows Solis Lacus and a receding polar cap. Valles Marineris is also detectable, and that only because of the high altitude after midnight, which allows far better views of this planet, despite being as small (in apparent diameter) as Saturn at around 20 arcsec.
All images aquired with an 14 inch scope, Mars on September 9, while Jupiter and Saturn on September 13, 2020.
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