Jupiter and Uranus reached conjunction and opposition on September 21st, 2010

These images were obtained at 04:27UTC. North is up in the images.

Copyright 2010, John Wunderlin, Mineral Point, WI, johnw@allprosoftware.com

Equipment used:

Orion ED80 telescope on Losmandy G11 mount

Canon XSi DSLR Camera

Software:

Nebulosity for acquisition, Photoshop CS4 for processing and annotation.

1st image: Jupiter and Uranus as they appeared together. Mouse over for annotated version. 20 images of .5 seconds were stacked and processed. Click on the image for a full resolution version.

2nd image: Jupiter with Uranus moved close for size comparison. A combination of .5 second and .1 second images were combined to display detail on the surface of Jupiter:

3rd image: Jupiter with details and annotations. Click on the image for the full resolution version:

You can see more of my images at http://picasaweb.google.com/johnwunderlin