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Geoff Cowie Jupiter using a C8 SCT and ZWO ASI120MC camera, processed in Registax6:

23 April 2018 6 May 2018 9 May 2018 14 May 2018 Mars 26 April 2018

Geoff Cowie Saturn using 127mm Maksutov + ASI120MC camera +ADC. Processed in Registax6

Saturn 16 May 03h 54m 41s Saturn 16 May 04h 13m 47s Venus 7 May 2018

Geoff Cowie taken on 26th March 2018 using a C8 SCT and ZWO ASI120MC camera, processed in Registax6:

Jupiter including Io Mars at low altitude (10°) Saturn at low altitude (10°)

Geoff Cowie 21 March 2018 with a 127mm Maksutov and ZWO ASI120MC camera, processed in Registax6

Jupiter with red spot and Io (left) Ganymede (right) Jupiter 24 June 2018

Geoff Cowie Mars in August 2018

     

Geoff Cowie Uranus in October 2018

David Baines:

8 Mar 2018 - 1 second exposure at f8 iso200 my Olympus OM-D E-M10 Enlarged in case you can't spot Mercury

John Walters on 9th May 2017

Jupiter 2017 May 9

Jupiter 2017 May 9

Jupiter 2017 May 9

Mercury Transit 2016-05-09 by Sheridan

11:13:08 UT - Just after 1st contact 11:13:18 UT 11:13:28 11:15:18 estimated 2nd contact 14:03:59 H-alpha just before clouds obscured view

 

Neptune by Sheridan 2009/12/20

Sheridan Williams

Jupiter on a pretty low "seeing" night 24 October 2010
DMK41 AU02 Mono 'webcam', William Optics 98mm f6.3 scope 500 images stacked in Registax 5

John Walters and Roger Frith's image of Jupiter

Using the Open University’s 16" Schmidt Cassegrain working at f/10. The camera was an Astronomy Source DFK21 colour webcam. The picture was assembled from a 500–frame video stream and was processed using Registax 5.

 Peter Hudson's planetary conjunctions:

 

Conjunction of Moon, Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Regulus from Great Barford, Bedfordshire 2015/10/10

 

Conjunction of Jupiter, Mars and Venus from Great Barford, Bedfordshire 2015/10/25

Conjunction of Jupiter, Mars and Venus from Great Barford, Bedfordshire 2015/10/29