Almost exactly 1 month ago, I posted a preview of the upcoming Jupiter season for the 2009 apparition, and in the post I guessed that about month from then would be a good time to start imaging.

Well my prediction came true and this morning I was able to capture my first images of Jupiter for Season 2009! The seeing was about average for the altitude, but there was a waves of instability crossing the image from left to right, changing the shape of Jupiter quite significantly through the capture window.

I captured 6 runs, and I’ve got the 2 best from the session to post today. This one below is the last from my session when Jupiter was about 34° altitude.

First Jupiter for Season 2009

I’ve also collected some more early-apparition images of Jupiter from Australia and the Phillipines – the image by Anthony Wesley, also from this morning, is just fantastic for this early in the season and I can’t wait to see what he produces later in the year (especially when his new scope is complete!).

Please read on to see the rest of the images and for more details about the capture and processing of my images.

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On February 24 2009, a rare quadruple transit was taking place at Saturn. Titan, Mimas, Dione and Enceladus were all transiting Saturn, along with shadows of 3 out of the 4 Moons!

Fortunately for us, the Hubble Space Telescope was on-hand to image this extraordinary event and these beautiful and fascinating images have just been released.

Hold your breath! These images are just amazing.

Quadruple Transit imaged by Hubble

Please read on to see more stunning Titan Transit images from Hubble!

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