Finally, the opportunity to photograph Jupiter presented itself on a fine Saturday evening. With the current Astronomy Now competition limiting entries to ones produced with telescopes under 4 inches in diameter I decided to try out the BAS 3? Vixen refractor.
Bad seeing curtailed imaging at midnight but I managed to capture a few sequences with red, green & blue filters. With the planet barely 9 degrees above the horizon, results were never going to be stunning, but some sharpening of a composite image produced the following:
