Saturn taken earlier this evening, just for the record! Seeing was rubbish with clouds blowing across and focusing was impossible. But I think it's good to process and keep these ones if only to make me grateful when conditions are better 🔭

Don't have much new data to play with so I'm revisiting and reworking some older data. This is from one of my better Saturn data sets from the end of 2024, taken with my 8" Edge SCT, when the rings were more open than they are right now 🔭

Rework of a Jupiter image from 20 Dec. For this one I used Registax to sharpen the image instead of my usual Astrosurface workflow. I think it's actually pulled a bit more detail out so I must revisit Registax more often 🔭

Jupiter on 3 Jan. The seeing wasn't the best when I took this. It was directly over my house and I had the central heating on full due to the freezing cold, which may not have helped!

The large crater Schickard, 140 miles in diameter, imaged on 6th Jan in good seeing with my Celestron C11 🔭

The wonderful crater Petavius on 6th Jan. The large rille running from the central mountain to the rim can just be seen, caught in the evening sunlight 🔭

The moons northern limb beyond the prominent dark-floored Plato and the Mare Frigoris. The crater near the limb is Philolaus which is 70km across. Normally inconspicuous it is prominent when seen, like this, on the terminator. The smallest features visible are around 1.5km across 🔭

Sunset over Langrenus. I love tge way the crater floor is plunged into shadow, leaving just the rings of the crater rim. 11" Celestron C11

Another close-up lunar image from New Years Eve. Gassendi - i love the system of rilles across the crater floor. I've got loads more lunar data to process! 🔭

Some nice seeing on new year's eve. The brightest crater on the moon, Aristarchus, and the wonderful Schröters Valley 🔭

My first image of the new year, taken 3rd Jan with my C11. The rings have opened a little more, to just 1°, and the shadow of the planet on the rings is just starting to show on the left side of the disk 🔭

My favourite, Clavius, from a few days ago. 11" Celestron with x2 Barlow My favourite, Clavius, from a few days ago. 11" Celestron with x2 Barlow🔭

New Years Eve had some good seeing. Pleased with this Saturn image. Its still fairly light when at it's highest now, so increasingly tricky to image. Probably won't be imaging it for too much longer 🔭

A closer view of Ganymede just before it touched the limb of Jupiter. Ive added a Winjupos simulation for the same time, as a reference🔭

Jupiter (with Ganymede) on Tuesday night. I struggled with dew and cloud so wasn't able to get much data. Pleased I was able catch some subtle shading on Ganymede just before it started to transit the disk 🔭

Interesting to see the rotation of giant Jupiter over the course of only 48 minutes. Its also noticeable how the seeing improved across the series. Images taken around midnight on the 26th. 🔭

Jupiter, imaged last night just after midnight, with my Celestron C11 Great Red Spot is nicely positioned. Some faint internal structure is visible, which may be less obvious due to compression! 🔭

Rudolph Jupiter? Another shot from the 20th, taken a little earlier, with the great red spot putting on a fine show. Merry Christmas everyone. Hope the holidays bring you good health and happiness 🔭

Jupiter on Saturday morning in good seeing using the C11 with x2 Barlow. I'd just recollimated the scope and cleaned the corrector plate, which I think helps, but the dew was awful! This is probably my best Jupiter image to date. More data still to go through 🔭

Another attempt at imaging Ganymede, early morning on 20th. No surface markings visible - poor focus maybe. Ive shown a winjupos simulation for the same time. To be fair, there's not much variation in albedo, so maybe I was expecting too much 🔭

Saturn on the evening of the 19th. Rings continue to open, now at just under 1° open, but i haven't been able to spot the gap between the rings yet. Need better seeing and better processing! 🔭

I've been trying a few new processing methods. This is a rework of one of my better Mars images taken almost exactly 3 years ago at around it's closest approach to us. The bright circle upper-right of centre is the volcano Olympus Mons. A few others are also visible. 🔭

Saturn taken on Sunday evening. You may think it looks exactly the same as the last image I posted, but the observant will notice the rings are 0.15° more open which for Saturn is a pretty big deal 😂 🔭

Im a bit geeky when it comes to statistics 😂 Over the last few months Ive noticed a significant change (drop) in engagement on BS. Ive never been one to chase "likes" but i find this shift interesting, and am curious as to the underlying reason Anyone else noticed this? 🔭

Saturn. Taken through bushes on the 4th. I need to try and catch it a bit eatlier! Celestron C11 at prime focus 🔭

Jupiter on the 4th December, taken in reasonable seeing Celestron C11 at prine focus 🔭

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 🔭

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 🔭

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. 🔭

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 🔭

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 😄 🔭

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 🔭

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! 🔭

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 🔭

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 🔭

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 🔭

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 🔭

Closer view of Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, and the biggest Moon in the solar system. First time I've been able to capture vague surface markings, which I was pleased with. The lower image is a Winjupos computer simulation for the same time, which shows reasonable agreement 🔭

Jupiter imaged on Tuesday morning in good seeing, with the C11. I think this is the first time I've captured vague albedo features on Ganymede, it's largest moon, which I was pleased about 🔭

Decided to check collimation of the C11. It wasn't far off but I tweaked it a bit. I'm happy with this result. Seeing is still rubbish though! 🔭

Saturn on Saturday evening using the Celestron C11 at prime focus, with a Uranus-C camera. Seeing wasn't great and I struggled to get decent data using a Barlow. 6 images derotated in winjupos. 🔭

Jupiter, imaged a few nights ago with the volcanic moon Io; the first time this season. Seeing wasn't the best, but good to get back on the king of planets. 🔭

Decided to get the big gun out to try and improve my planet imaging. Of course it'll now be cloudy for weeks 😕 🔭

Rework of my image of Uranus' moons. I've superimposed a correctly exposed image of the planet to show its true size. In my previous moon image it was over-exposed, to help record the moons, and looked huge 🔭

Uranus taken in average seeing. Not my best image of this planet but its good to catch up with it again; it's been a few years. 🔭

Tried to catch the moons of Uranus the other night. Seeing was a bit wobbly but captured the 4 brightest. Uranus is hugely over-exposed with more than a 1000-fold difference in brightness between it and the faintest moon. First time I've tried with my 8"scope, but need more 🔭

Saturn taken on 29th Oct in average seeing. It's largest moon Titan can be seen below the rings on the right side of the planet and is just about to disappear from view as it moves behind the disk. The rings continue to close up, as seen from our viewpoint. 🔭

The clouds didn't part early enough to try and catch comet Lemmon. But Saturn isn't looking too shabby, so trying a bit of planetary imaging 🔭

Saturn and largest moon Titan just before it transitted the disk, taken last week. I stopped imaging before it reached the disk because the seeing was deteriorating, but wished I'd carried on now 😕. I really need to get a bigger aperture scope on Saturn 🔭

Comet Lemmon taken last night, 24 Oct. Some fantastic detail in the gas tail, which has changed a lot in only the last few days. Mono image only, due to cloud coming in before I could capture RGB data. 22 x 45 sec exposures. Esprit 100 scope. 2600MM camera 🔭