Jupiter / Saturn (03 Jul 2019)

The last clear night we have had was the 3rd of July. I was able to get some imagery of Jupiter and Saturn. Jupiter was just about as high as it could get for this date but Saturn was still fairly low so there was a lot of distortion. If you look carefully at the upper right limb of Jupiter you can see the GRS just starting to rotate into view.

As stated earlier, Saturn was much lower in the sky which leads to a significant increase in atmospheric distortion. I could have waited until Earth’s rotation maxed out Saturn’s elevation but that would have been an additional 3 hour wait and it was getting pretty late so I captured the video as soon as the planet cleared the trees.

There appears to be a hint of the Encke gap just inside the outer edge of the rings.