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~ Mars, Jupiter & Saturn ~
Taken by Noeleen Lowndes on April 16, 2018 @ Stardust Observatory Leyburn Australia

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Date Taken: 2018:05:04 11:05:50

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What an exciting time it is now with a wonderful display of the three planets Mars, Jupiter and Saturn in the night sky. The magnificent planet Jupiter was the best that I’ve ever seen it with so much detail on its surface and one of its moon called Io not that far away. The red planet Mars was in a gibbous phase as our planet quickly approaches it for a very close opposition at the end of July and Saturn also looked beautiful and will look even better with opposition at the end of June…so try and make some time to go outside to look up and see some of our planetary neighbours :-) Images were taken at my Stardust observatory during April 2018, with a Meade 10inch LX200 Schmidt Cassgrain telescope and a ZWO ASI120MC-S camera with a 2x Barlow lens attached; the conditions were excellent :-)

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http://www.mystardustobservatory.com

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Noeleen,

That is an impressive trio of planets.

Your image of Jupiter with Io deserves another WOW. As I look close at Io in the big image you can actually see what appears to be an RGB pattern, so did you take separate RGB images? The color looks perfect on Jupiter and the images were very short so cant imagine Io would move that fast to show that pattern. Maybe the fact that Jupiter rotates so fast and you aligned the color images on Jupiter? Any thoughts on why we see that with Io?

Saturn with its beautiful rings and Mars is showing some nice surface features already in your image. We look forward to your Mars images as Earth moves toward opposition.

Thanks for sharing your great images,

Mike Olason

Posted by Icylander2 2018-05-03 22:55:28

Hi Mike

Thank you for your kind words, as to Jupiter’s moon Io, I went and had a look at the AVI movie file that I took and Io does display those exact same colours only a little bit more golden.

The reason the moon is so steady is because of the excellent atmospheric conditions in the sky on the night when Jupiter was up near the zenith. I always try to take planetary images when they are really high in the sky, that way our atmosphere is usually a lot clearer and steadier for imaging.

It’s hard to believe you can get this much detail on a planet with just 2000 frames from just over a 1 minute video. I use a FREE software program called RegiStax6 and import the best frames from the movie. Then the program stacks the images, once that’s done you go to Wavelets and play around with it until you are happy with your image, then if you want you can pop the image into Photoshop to tidy up the picture, I know it’s simple but it works for me :-)

All the best from Australia, Noeleen

Posted by noeleen22 2018-05-04 20:37:08

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