Jupiter and M33

Jupiter with Ganymede and Io in transit:

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During the SAS members viewing and imaging night at the Brian Stokes Cygnus Observatory an SER was taken using Asgtro DMx Capture with an ASI 462C camera fitted to a Meade LX200 Classic telescope. The data were taken just after Ganymede popped into view after being shaded by Jupiter’s shadow and Io and its shadow began their transit across Jupiter. Usually Io's high albedo makes it tricky to see against the similarly coloured surface, but this transit was against the lower equatorial belt making it much easier to pick out against the brownish/ orange hue of the cloud belt. The data were stacked in Autostakkert!4, wavelet processed in Registax and further processed in Pixinsight and Adobe Photoshop 2024 as a greyscale image.

M33:

A 2 hour LRGB/Ha edit of M33 (Triangulum galaxy) imaged with a SkyWatcher Esprit 80ED triplet refractor fitted with a field flattener and a ZWO ASi533MM Pro mono camera and filter wheel. The data were stacked and processed in Pixinsight and Adobe Photoshop 2024.

Chris Bowden