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Oh boy, another picture of the moon  When the moon is big and bright it washes out the night sky so much that you can't photograph any thing else. So to give me something to do..... I photographed the moon.... again. The atmosphere was calm and transparent and I think this is the best picture of the moon I have taken so far.

Saturn This picture was taken the same night as the next picture of Jupiter but this picture was taken at 10:30 p.m. The same processing was done with this picture as was done with Jupiter. But you can see how much difference it makes when the target is much higher in the sky.

Jupiter  Jupiter is the highest in the sky that I have ever seen it. So at 3:30 in the A.M. I took 10,000 video frames. Aligned and stacked 1,000 frames. And this is the result. This picture was taken with low power focal length. The next clear night I will do it again with high power focal length.