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As Seen From Our Gardens 2026

Also managed to get some photos of Jupiter and all 4 of its Galilean satellites in the last few weeks. Photographing Jupiter is a bit of a dark art (these are taken with a camera and very big lens, not through a telescope) - you have to wait for a moonless, cloudless night otherwise you loose the surface markings, or satellites, or both. Then some post-processing is required as the moons and Jupiter require vastly different exposures and you have to combine 2 or more images to get the final shot:-
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Best one I've took for Jupiter surface detail recently is this one - 3 moons only visible (4th is behind Jupiter probably):-
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Earth and Jupiter are currently at the closest point they will be for the next 10 years - so ideal time for photography. Add a crystal clear night just before midnight yesterday and I managed to get this one:-
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All 4 Galilean satellites and excellent cloud detail. Moons from the left - Ganymede, Europa, Io and Callisto
 
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For the first time in about a fortnight we had a relatively clear night last night. Had the opportunity to photograph Jupiter at approx. 9pm, 10pm and 11.30pm - so you can see the movement of the Galilean moons over a shorter period of time - from the left Ganymede, Europa, Io, Callisto:-
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10pm:-
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11.30pm:-
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Also got some nice moon shots last night:-
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