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Saturn Moons Tethys (Lower-Left), Dione (Top-Right) and a Cyclonic storm at the Northern Equatorial Belt region on August 8th, 01:18ut, 01:41ut.

Saturn - on July 11th, 03:44ut. Equipment: LX200ACF 12 in OTA, CGE Mount, ASI290mm, PowerMate 2.5x Barlows, Custom Scientific RGB Filters.

Saturn and the moons Dione (B) and Mimas (T) on July 2nd, 02:16ut.

Thirdteen years of Oppositions 2005 - 2017, Axis ring angle tilt evolution now at its maximum. ( Center, Top left to lower right ). ( Equipments: LX200ACF 12 in., 10in, OTA, CGE mount, Flea3, DMK21, TouCam 740,840, SAC7 Ccd's, TeleVue 3x barlows, PowerMate 2.5x barlows.)

Saturn - Moons Mimas (Top L), Tethys (Top R) and Enceladus (Bot. L). on June 15th, 05:08ut on opposition day and its axis at maximum tilt.

Saturn - June 7th, 05:29ut. Under slight above average conditions. Now within six days of opposition.

Saturn - Moon Enceladus (Lower R) on May 27th, 05:38ut.

Compilation of 13 years of Jupiter oppositions images ( 2004-2017 ). Note: 2013 is not missing it was oppositionless last time was in 2001. I wanted to go back further to 1985 but the quality are way below to the modern era of digital Ccd's videos compare to SLR cameras at the time ( Center image =1...

Jupiter - GRS, Oval Ba on Opposition day April 7th, 06:28ut. Under optimum conditions.

Venus - A Montage of images taken from Oct.2016 - Mar.2017 showing its size and phases changes.

Jupiter - On March 10th, 05:40ut. 05:45ut. The GRS at the limb also the main moon Ganymede transiting (top) and Io (Right) in Infra Red 685. For visual effects Cross Your Eyes!

Update! Mars from this apparition 2015-2017, Here is less then a third of captured images showing the size differences in a years time lapse as it gets closer (Oct.17,2015) thru opposition (May 22nd & Closest to earth on May 30th) and gaining distance from us as of Feb.8th, 2017.

The Moon at its maximum penumbral eclipse on February 10th, 8:43pm local time. (Equipment: ES80 APO, CGE Mount, PGR Flea3 Ccd). Four panel mosaic.

Moon Craters Cyrillus_Theophilus on February 3rd, 23:38ut. Two panel mosaic.

Moon Crater Barocius E on February 3rd, 23:54ut. Center - Heart Shaped.

Jupiter, GRS, Oval Ba and South Equatorial Belt zone disturbance on 2017-01-29-0938ut. LX200ACF 12 in OTA, CGE Mount, ASI290mm Ccd, PowerMate 2.5x Barlows, Custom Scientific RGB filters.

On this apparition Mars has shown both sides of its poles (North&South) Its been a year from this image taken in Dec.21st 2015 and Dec.15th, 2016. But now small in diameter compare to opposition on May 22nd, 2016 top image at 18.36 arcsec in diameter.

Comet 45P / Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova on December 18th, 22:47ut.

The Moon ( Super Moon ) on December 13th, 21:30pm. Imaged through a portal in the clouds. (ES ED80 Triplet., ASI 290mm Ccd)

The Moon (Super Moon) on November 14th, 05:29ut. Lucky enough for a quick take after the rain showers through a portal between clouds. Five panel mosaic. Equipment: ED80mm, CGE mount, PGR Flea3 Ccd.

Mars from this apparition 2015-2016, Here is less then a third of captured images showing the size differences in a years time lapse as it gets closer (Oct.17,2015) thru opposition (May 22nd & Closest to earth on May 30th) and gaining distance from us as of Oct.10th, 2016.

Mars Opposition 2016 - Mars Projection Map also a full globe rotation animation from images taken from May 18th - June 17th (Eleven sessions combined), At: https://www.flickr.com/photos/54342905@ ... ed-public/

Three planet oppositions on the first half of 2016.

Saturn and two of its moons (L) Tethys and (R) Enceladus.

Dusty, Hazy Mars from June 11th-17th. Some dust disturbances has formed in many regions (annotated - Region Of Interest) during the last several days. a little early then the norm but will be monitored when possible to see if it progresses as time goes.