Looking forward to it! Thanks for the heads up😎👍

Thank you. ☺️ I’ve not tried panning before so this was a bit of an experiment that turned out quite well I think! We’ll see if the judges like it. I run the competition and have seen the other entries; it will be a tough competition!

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Oh well, it's only takes years of trial and error studying various techniques and inhuman quantities of patience. Here's 2000 hours compressed to 30 seconds. 24 inch (62 cm) diameter f/3.4 paraboloid primary mirror.

To be fair, I could probably manage 30 seconds....!

2000 hours! Blimey, that IS a lot of patience!

Educated guess again, but recon the lighter dots (circled blue) are moons, and the darker dots (circled green) are their shadows. I ran some calcs and found that there is a double occultation occuring around that time so it would make sense (to me anyway!) - what do you think?

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I created skycalpro.com to help you find out what is happening in the night sky over your home tonight. It’s free - check it out :) This week I am working on Jupiter Red Spot calculations...

My post today shows an artists impression of how Jupiter looked around the same time, making an interesting comparison

I had the same thought. Never attempted it, but I hear it's a looong process.

Isn't it!

Indeed - I'm always impressed by what could be achieved back then - and now!

The consensus from what I've read is that the spot was a lot larger and is shrinking and could disappear in the next 20 years. According to 'A Popular History of Astronomy': 'the direct image in which imprinted itself in a fraction of a second' so possibly not due to long exposure smear.

Yes, I’ve looked at that a couple of times today and wondered if they weren’t the same scope. The image appears a lot and I think you could be right.