Jupiter and Moons at Opposition 20200714While some observers focused on Comet Neowise, George Bradshaw had his camera with telescopic lens focused on other solar phenomenon, taking an excellent photograph of Jupiter and its moons at opposition.  George chose his timing carefully to have the four bright satellites of Jupiter strung out in a chain to both the left and right of the giant planet. 

He writes, "I couldn't spot Neowise from south of Fairfax City -- too much haze and cloudiness on the horizon.  But on Tuesday [14 July 2020] I captured Jupiter and its moons at opposition....Basic post-processing was performed in Lightroom and Photoshop; no image stacking was performed.  The effect of "twinkling" was mitigated in Photoshop.  Twinkling increased Jupiter's pixel diameter from 30 pixels to 40 pixels, so a 5-pixel band surrounding Jupiter was removed.  Twinkling increased the moons' pixel diameters from less than one pixel to as much as 10 pixels; to ensure the moons would be visible on a web page, the moons' pixel diameters were reduced to about 4 pixels rather than 1 pixel." [For presentation here on the website, additional unsharp masking was applied.  Webmaster]