Jupiter and Saturn

Written By James Sanders
Even with so many things working against this image, you can still see the dark bands of sinking clouds on our gas giant, Jupiter.

Even with so many things working against this image, you can still see the dark bands of sinking clouds on our gas giant, Jupiter.

Saturn, though the imagery doesn’t translate well with the current equipment being used, still has wonderfully discernible rings!

Saturn, though the imagery doesn’t translate well with the current equipment being used, still has wonderfully discernible rings!

Location: West Leechburg Park

Date / Time: September 9th, 2020 — around 23:59

Telescope: Meade DS-2130AT Newtonian Reflector Telescope

Eyepiece: 4mm

This evening was plagued with a LOT of moisture. This, combined with the camera used made the images fairly blurry. I tried my best to sharpen the images as much as I could on Photoshop (using a hard pass filter at 10.0 pixels, and setting hard light opacity to 50%) without making the quality worse.
Despite all of this, I think the images came out better than I expected them to.

James Sanders
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