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A photographic tour of the solar system, featuring the sun and all the planets except Earth, which I have replaced with the moon.
The images and videos here are all taken with either a 5" Newtonian reflector on equatorial mount with motor drive or 6" Schmidt cassegrain telescope on goto equatorial mount.
If you noticed, the image of jupiter only has one visible equatorial belt - the north equatorial belt. This is because the south equatorial belt has recently vanished and is predicted to return within a few years.
The image of uranus and neptune have exceeded my expectations as they do not appear star-like despite requiring longer exposures to produce the surface colour. However, I did cheat a little on them as they did not appear rounded in the images. I have also managed a shot of the elusive mercury, which I managed to find out of sheer luck one morning.
