I was out imaging Jupiter before work on Monday morning, hoping again for some better seeing as I finally got for my image 2 days before. 

Unfortunately it didn’t live up to expectations – it was really strange seeing. The detail was quite clear and steady and I could make out polar spots and dark storms during the raw capture, but localised bad seeing was causing a bad waving motion across Jupiter from West to East.

Jupiter, 3rd May ~1925 UT

It settled down just enough to capture this image above in reasonable seeing just before I had to pack up to head off to work.

Continue reading for more info and an image by Anthony Wesley taken on the same morning.

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I took this image of the 9-day old waxing gibbous Moon on Sunday night, 3rd May 2009.

The image has been colour-enhanced to emphasise the composition differences of geological formations. From APOD:

..blue hues reveal titanium rich areas while orange and purple colors show regions relatively poor in titanium and iron.

The Colour Saturated Moon. Click the image to see the large size.

Continue reading to find out how I captured and processed this image.

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