Imaged at Perth Observatory. Single DSLR image processed in Adobe Photoshop and converted to monochrome. Overexposed for planets to show Jupiter's moons and 1 star. to the left of them. Saturn's moon Titan is also just visible. Telescope - Meade LX200-ACF 14" f/10 F-3556mm, Long Perng 0.6x APO Focal Reducer,No filter, Baader BCF modified Canon 70D DSLR field 35' x 25' , Ambient ~22C. Meade Fork mount with EQ X-Wedge with siderial tracking, no guiding. BackYardEOS 3.2 for image capture.
Captured with BackyardEOS 5X Planetary mode - 3 layers of 500 frames @ ISO1600 at 1/15 sec for Jupiter Moons, 1/80 sec for Saturn and 1/250 for Jupiter Post Processed with Registax 6 to stack best 20% (100) frames with Wavelet processing to sharpen. Photoshop used to layer and blend. Telescope - PowerNewt 200mm f/4 with Baader MPCC f/4 Coma Corrector, No filter, Baader BCF modified Canon 70D DSLR field 64' x 95' , Ambient ~26C. EQMOD EQASCOM with Ascom 6.5 for mount control. Backyard EOS Pro 3.2.0 for Image acquisition. Mount - Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro on Sidereal tracking.
Jupiter & Saturn among some inetrsting clouds on the evening of Christmas Day 2020. Hand held Canon M50 with 18-150mm lens at 150mm at f/6.3, ISO 800 at 1/5 Sec
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