One night in June '18 was our “planets night”. These videos shows the imaging capability of a well-tuned 1m telescope with nice nightime seeing , without AO (it came after 2020), and some data processing (actually a lot of data processing …). Some of the videos have a long enough timelime so as to make planetary rotation visible.
Shooting Jupiter and Io together wasn't that simple: I am happy it ends up nicely !
Jupiter Saturn Mars VenusIf you are looking for Mercury, it is somewhere else on this site, as it is one of our favourite daytime target.
You are welcome in right-clicking the movies to download and reproduce them locally with a correct window size.
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