Planets

Venus

1/14/2025

Telescope: 254mm f/4.7 reflector + Televue 2X barlow + ZWO IR cut filter
Camera: ZWO ASI 678 MC
Captured using FireCapture, stacked using AutoStakkert, wavelet processing using Registax and final processing using PixInsight

Venus 04/23/2004 - Afocal - Telescope: 120mm f/5 refractor with 10mm Eyepiece (Stacked using Registax)

Mars

1/14/2025

Telescope: 254mm f/4.7 reflector + Televue 2X barlow + ZWO IR cut filter
Camera: ZWO ASI 678 MC
Captured using FireCapture, stacked using AutoStakkert, wavelet processing using Registax and final processing using PixInsight

Mars 08/08/2003 - Afocal - Telescope: 120mm f/5 refractor with 10mm Eyepiece (Stacked using Registax)

Mars 02/21/2004 and 08/08/2003 Comparison Image

Jupiter

1/14/2025

Jupiter 1/20/2024 with Ganymede, Europa and Io (Callisto was to the right off frame)
Telescope: 254mm f/4.7 reflector + Televue 2X barlow + ZWO IR cut filter
Camera: ZWO ASI 678 MC
Captured using FireCapture, stacked using AutoStakkert, wavelet processing using Registax and final processing using PixInsight

Jupiter 03/15/2002 - Afocal (Stacked using AstroStack)

Jupiter showing Ganymede, IO and Europa (with chart) 01/03/2003 - Afocal

Jupiter showing IO and Callisto 04/21/2003 - Afocal - Telescope: 120mm f/5 refractor with 25mm eyepiece Camera: Sony Mavica digital camera

Jupiter 04/01/2004 - Afocal - Tlescope: 120mm f/5 refractor with 10mm eyepiece Camera: Sony Mavica digital camera Stacked using Registax

Jupiter 04/23/2004 - Afocal - Telescope: 120mm f/5 refractor Camera: Sony Mavica digital camera Stacked using Registax

Jupiter 02/17/2005 - Afocal - Telescope: 120mm f/5 refractor with 25mm eyepiece and 2x barlow lense, Camera: Canon EOS-10D with 50mm f/1.4 lense Exposure: 1/30 sec at ISO 800

Jupiter 03/01/2005 - Afocal - Telescope: 120mm f/5 refractor with 25mm eyepiece and 2x barlow lense, Camera: Canon EOS-10D with 50mm f/1.4 lense Exposure: 1/20 sec at ISO 800 03/01/2005 03:04 CST

Note: The dark spot that moves between exposures is the shadow of one of Jupiter's moons, IO

03/01/2005 03:42 CST

Note: These images were sharpened by applying an unsharp mask at 500% with a pixel ratio of 3.0 and a threshold of 0 level and a gaussian blur of 1.2 pixels

Jupiter 12/22/2012 - Positive projection with 25mm eyepiece and a 2x barlow lense. Stacked using Registax.

Jupiter 12/26/2012 - Positive projection with 25mm eyepiece and a 2x barlow lense. Stacked using Registax

Jupiter 1/1/2013 - Positive projection with 25mm eyepiece and a 2x barlow lense. Stacked using Registax

Jupiter 1/12/2015 - 254mm f/4.7 Reflector with 2in 4x barlow, aquired using Backyard EOS and stacked using Registax. Unsharp mask and curves adjusted using gimp

Jupiter (with Io) 7/12/2019 - 254mm f/4.7 Reflector with 2in 4x barlow, aquired using Backyard EOS and stacked using Registax. Processed with Pixinsight and Gimp

29 minute time-lapse

Saturn

Saturn 03/02/2005 - Afocal - Telescope: 120mm f/5 refractor, 10mm eyepiece with 2x barlow lense. Camera: Canon EOS-10D with 50mm lense (stacked using Registax)

Saturn 05/21/2008 - Quick Cam (lense removed) positive projection with a 9mm eyepiece - Telescope: 120mm f/5 refractor - 50 frames stacked using Registax

Saturn 05/21/2015 - 254mm f/4.7 Reflector with 2in 4x barlow, aquired using Backyard EOS and stacked using Registax. Used RGBAlign in Registax to correct for a problem where there was red on the bottom and blue at the top of the image. Unsharp mask and curves adjusted in Gimp.

Saturn 7/12/2019 - 254mm f/4.7 Reflector with 2in 4x barlow, aquired using Backyard EOS and stacked using Registax. Used RGBAlign in Registax to correct for a problem where there was red on the bottom and blue at the top of the image. Unsharp mask and curves adjusted in Gimp.

Date: 7/12/2019
Telescope: 254mm f/4.7 Reflector with 2in 4x barlow (focal length of 4775.2mm)
Camera: Canon T4i
Acquired using BackyardEOS
Processed using PixInsight and Gimp

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