Jupiter visits M44

Yesterday I had a nice view of Jupiter close to M44, the Beheeve
cluster.
I tried to image it and to manage the huge brightness difference.
Again a combo of the 4" f/6.2 refractor and the D60.

A nice little UGC galaxy is visible between Jupiter and the center of
the image.
See details at:
http://panther-observatory.com/deepsky.htm#67

Johannes

Attached Image:

Very effective image, nicely done.

Ron Wodaski

Beautifully done Johannes... very natural colors & detail...
Oh, and love the "little" galaxy...



Clear skies!


Ivan

Very nice image!

I happened upon the same combination last night with my ETX-125, completely by chance. The weather here had been horrific (either cloudy or bone-chillingly cold) for two months, but it was reasonably clear last night until about 11pm, so decided to break out the scope.

Since I was only able to find a site with a clear view to the west, I couldn't get the scope to align with any of the stars that were visible, so I ended up taking a look at Jupiter manually, tracking with the handbox. When I looked through the finder to get Jupiter centered, I saw a small group of stars very nearby, and spent some time panning back and forth between the two objects, primarily using my 32mm UO Konig.

Mind you, I had no idea what cluster I was looking at, but I looked it up this morning and discovered that it was M44. What a nice way to get back into observing after such a long break.