I did this once before in January with the old camera to answer the question if it’s possible to pick up Jupiter’s moons – and yes, it works. This new capture with the SX1 from yesterday shows all four Galilean moons, from bottom left to top right, Europa, Io, Ganymede and, very faint, Callisto. There are, of course, no surface details on Jupiter visible and the size of the planet is blown up too much because I had to overexpose the image to get the moons to show up, but it’s still amazing to see that the camera can pick up objects with magnitudes between 5 and 6!

First full Moon with the SX1! Not quite perfect because of some light cloud cover and still a bit noisy, but it’s a good effort nevertheless and much bigger and more detailed than with the S5!

Another chance to test out the SX1 for Moon photography today – but again, the source images were far away from perfect, because it was not quite dark yet and it took a lot of playing around with filters, brightness and contrast to get this result. This was again stacked from 10 photos.

Finally a proper chance to test out the SX1 with the Moon – although I have messed this up a bit because I had the camera set to a higher ISO accidentially. I stacked ten of them together with RegiStax and the result is not great, but a good example how HUGE the Moon has now become – the larger zoom and the higher resolution let me get a lot closer now!

Got to post all the Moons! This is from September 14th.

Another recent Moon shot from September 12th.

More Moon processing attempts, this is from September 4th.

This is from September 7th, one day before the so-called Harvest Supermoon.

My 42nd stacked Moon is another Supermoon from yesterday, the last one of this season. About 15 frames combined with RegiStax and processed a bit more to bring out some more details. More resolution isn’t possible with my Powershot S5, but I still try to get something out of it :-).

I can’t believe I’ve never posted this photo from March – Astrophotography meets Planespotting!