Latest observations added at the top.
Images taken with 5inch or 6inch APO refractor, Celestron 14 EHD, or 13inch Newtonian
Recording with ASI224MC or ASI120MC / ASI174 with FireCapture. Processing in AstroStakkert!3, Registax 6 and Photoshop CS2.
2025-01-19 03:36UT. The first planetary observation this year. hopefully many more will come. Jupiter here was processed in Autostakkert and Registax with an additional deconvolution and denoise in PixInsight. This image is from 20% of 10k frames.
2025-11-02 04:02UT. Saturn's rings are close to edge on this year and in visual as in imaging observation show as a thin line of light and casting their shadow on the planet.
2025-11-08 05:20UT. An out of the ordinary image. This is a first light image from the TVS club CDK20 scope. I only had a B/W guiding camera available at the occasion.
The moon next to Saturn's left limb is Rhea. Shown here in Stellarium (the above image should be rotated 180deg)
Copyright images and processing Gert Gottschalk.
Copyright Bilder und Verarbeitung Gert Gottschalk