Amazing images can be taken with Vixen equipment. In the example above, the stark full Moon has a close encounter with Jupiter (scroll right if not in the field) -- which is flanked by Io (below) and Europa (above).
[Insert square provided by VNA in case your monitor doesn't show the moons.] Vixen ED102S refractor coupled to a Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate image amplifier with an LPI CMOS camera were all guided by a Vixen GP-DX with SkySensor 2000 goto system for this mosaic image.
One Jupiter image of 0.20 secs was joined to 56 Lunar images of 0.032 secs.
Location details: [Note: across the continent in Perth the encounter was an occultation that evening.] |