I’ve not done much astronomy recently, but the skies were clear and Jupiter was shining brightly in the sky. I’d not used the webcam for any planetary images for a long time but it worked out quite nicely. A few issues getting the focus correct meant that two of the moons have come out slightly blurred, but the detail on Jupiter is some of the best I have managed with my current setup.

The full image is actually a composite of 3 images. It’s necessary to take the planet at one exposure and the moons at another otherwise you get no surface detail on the planet. I needed two images to get all of the moons in becase they are spaced too far apart to fit in a single frame from my webcam.

Click on the image below for the full version including the moons.