Sunday 14 July 2019
How low can you get?
"This year Jupiter and Saturn are so low from our latitude that we can get only our tiny 66mm Altair Astro refractor to track them across the sky. For a challenge, we decided to try and obtain images of Jupiter and Saturn using this little scope. The above composite image was compiled by Pip Stakkert using the Canon 600D DSLR and the QHY-11 planetary camera. The red spot, the two equatorial bands and three of the Galilean Moons are easily seen and a tiny Saturn with a number of its moons can be viewed under the dark line of Mr Schrodinger's television aerial" - Kurt Thrust acting CEO and current Director of the Jodrell Plank Observatory.
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