Jupiter is a little past opposition now, but nice and high in the sky in the evening. I have been waiting for an attempt to capture the “great red spot”, and finally some clear sky came along at the right time. It was early evening though.

This was Jupiter fairly soon after I started, at about 1815. I was taking a lot of short videos (2000 frames, about 10ms exposure, so about 20 seconds long) and have picked probably the best two in terms of detail.
Here’s the second one, about 20 minutes later. You can see just how fast Jupiter rotates!

I think that this one is a little better. Both show that the “great red spot” is no longer so great, or so red! When I was first observing it seriously (mind you, we are talking 50 years ago!) the colour was really quite pronounced. What is good is that the features are repeated pretty well across the two images; I do worry that the “wavelet” etc processing used to sharpen the images invents stuff, but mostly I don’t think that it does. These features are real!
It was really a bit early to take images of Mars; I had to wait for it to clear local rooftops. However, I didn’t want to leave the gear out in the subzero temperatures for hours waiting for Mars to be high up. So I had a go anyway, and am pretty pleased with the result:

It’s not a good opposition (it can be almost twice this size in the sky when it’s closer), but even so there are clear features; the north polar cap (carbon dioxide ice), the dark band of Utopia just below that, then Syrtis Major on the equator. The paler area of Hellas is even visible towards the south. I have checked that these features should have been there! Also, another image taken some minutes apart does show the same features. So for a “first go” at Mars, I am pretty happy.