Jupiter and its missing belt

Jupiter is now in the morning sky, I woke up early on June 8th and took this pic as it started getting light out. Jupiter has gradually lost one of its two, reddish-brown belts this year. If you compare this pic to one of mine from last year, this missing belt is real obvious.

Saturn in IR

Here is the infrared image of Saturn I took on Thursday night. I combined this with the color data to produce the image in the previous post.

Saturn, June 17th

Here is Saturn from Thursday night. I'm experimenting with a different technique, using an infrared image in a luminance layer in Photoshop to improve sharpness and lower noise.

Saturn from Tuesday

We had a nice clear night on Tuesday and I grabbed this pic of Saturn.

2009 Jupiter

From the Vault; here's a Jupiter image I took last year and didn't end up processing it until this week. I'll probably start imaging Jupiter again this Fall. It'll be higher in the sky this year and the pics should turn out less fuzzy.

Saturn on April 27

I increased the magnification on Saturn this time. The equipment is all running well! No skunks sighted.

April Saturn

Here's Saturn from last night. Click for a slightly bigger version. I saw my first skunk of the year while I had the scope out!