January 17th 1950 GMT Jupiter and Uranus
I took my usual two videos of Jupiter at high brightness to
show the moons and low brightness to show the cloud belts with the Seestar S50. I then combined the images.
I used Stargazing mode to capture Uranus against the stellar
background before cloud rolled in. I used 9 minutes integration time then cleaned up in GraXpert and GIMP.
January 16th 1155 GMT Sun
For the first time in 2026, the sun was active, the sky was clear and at 17 degrees elevation, it was high enough to photograph with the Seestar S50. I took full disc and 4x zoom videos for stacking.
January 15th 2305 GMT Jupiter and M67
There was some unexpected clear sky. I took videos of
Jupiter with the Seestar S50 showing moons and planetary detail.
I combined the two images.
I photographed the open cluster M67 using the Seestar S50
and managed a few integrations before cloud rolled in. I stacked 10 integration runs for a total time of 153 minutes.
January 14th 0000 GMT Jupiter
It cleared later, so I was able to take some videos of
Jupiter with the Seestar S50. One was the moons, the other the planetary
features.
I also took a still image of Jupiter but still prefer to
take videos. Despite that, the still image was better on the night.
I combined the still image of Jupiter with the stacked video of the moons, both taken with the Seestar S50.
January 13th 2115 GMT Jupiter
I tried to photograph Jupiter with the Seestar S50 but it was too cloudy and I could not get sharp focus.
January 10th 2045 GMT Jupiter and the Witch's Head
I took two videos of Jupiter, one showing moons and the other
showing surface detail.
I used Framing mode on the Witch's Head Nebula. I did a 62 minute integration but only caught a pale hint of the object.
I only had an 18 minute integration on M93 with the Seestar S50 but I had finally managed to capture a difficult Messier object.
January 9th 2220 GMT M35
Although I tried a few objects in cloudy conditions, only
the open cluster M35 in Gemini produced any result. I stacked 8 integration runs for a total integration time of 162 minutes.
January 9th 1940 GMT Jupiter
I was amazed to see some patches of clear sky following an awful few days. I had to perform a firmware upgrade first.
I took two videos of Jupiter with the Seestar S50, one showing the moons and the other showing planetary details.
I combined the two images.
January 5th 2250 GMT M101
I tried to find the open star cluster M93 from our back garden but
it was behind a house. M101 was quite well-placed, so I gave it a go with the
Seestar S50. The integration run was 88 minutes but finished by cloud.
January 5th 2100 GMT Mixed Session
I photographed the globular cluster M79 for the first time
ever, with the Seestar S50. I did 5 integration runs, with a maximum time of 17 minutes. I stacked using Deep Sky Stacker and finished in GraXpert and GIMP.
I took two sets of videos of Jupiter with the Seestar S50,
one to show the moons and the other the planetary features.
I took a full disc video of the moon with the Seestar S50
and followed with some closeup videos.
January 4th 2320 GMT Moon and Jupiter
Conditions were very poor, with moving cloud. I took a video
of the moon with the Seestar S50 for 1 minute in an attempt to counteract the
conditions.
I took videos of Jupiter's moons, then the planet with the
Seestar S50. The moons video did not stack but the planet showed the cloud belts.
January 4th 1915 GMT Moon and Jupiter
I photographed the moon with Jupiter with my phone camera from a motorway service station.
January 3rd 2035 GMT Moon and Jupiter
I photographed the moon with Jupiter with my DSLR camera at
300mm focal length, ISO 6400 and 1/13 second exposure. This did not work.
I took a full disc video of the moon with the Seestar S50.
I took closeups of the moon at 4x zoom with the Seestar S50.
I photographed Jupiter's moons with the Seestar S50 by
taking a video.
I took a video of Jupiter with the Seestar S50.
I combined the images to show Jupiter with its moons.
January 2nd 2300 GMT M44
I had trouble finding faint targets in the moonlight. I
settled on M44 before cloud rolled in.
January 2nd 2100 GMT Jupiter and Deep Sky
I took videos of Jupiter's moons and the planet with the
Seestar S50.
I combined the two shots.
I photographed the open star cluster NGC2169 with the
Seestar S50. I stacked four integration runs for a total time of 29 minutes.
With many fainter objects drowned out by moonlight, I went
for M41 with the Seestar S50. I did a single integration run of 29 minutes and finished with GraXpert and GIMP.
January 2nd 1810 GMT Moon
I took full disc and 4x closeup videos of the moon with the Seestar S50.
January 1st 1920 GMT Mixed Session
