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Saturday, May 31, 2008
Pluto and Jupiter
I've added a page and a photo for Pluto. Send me a comment and let me know if you think Pluto deserves its own
web page. Is a dwarf planet worthy and should Pluto be treated specially (regardless of its AIU classification)
or not!
I also added a new page for Jupiter to accomodate the additional Jupiter pictures I'm working on.
Friday, May 23, 2008
New Jupiter Pics
I finally broke down and bought the software that I wanted. Here's a new Jupiter pic from 5-19 as well as an enhanced
version from 4-20. You can see how the smaller Jupiter storms have moved in relation to the Great Red Spot (GRS).
It was just lucky that the GRS happened to be in the same place from our vantage point here on Earth... The picture
taken on 5-19 looks a little worse even though Jupiter is closer. Jupiter was a little lower in the atmosphere and the
seeing wasn't as good. I'm hoping to get a better image soon.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Who will save Alex!
Alex is a star in Ursa Major that was named by Jessica. Unfortunately, Alex is in a very dangerous part of the
sky - with bears and even a dragon. Hopefully, our hero is nearby so Alex can be saved! Look in the new Constellation
page under the Milky Way link to find out!
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You can submit comments below. Let me know if you want to see more. Thanks.
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| WIS, Europa, Ganymede, RGB f29 08/01/09 |
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| The Wesley Impact Site has elongated, two moons and the GRS near the limb |
| Jupiter with Wesley Impact Site, RGB, f29 |
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| The southern pole region shows a black impact mark discovered by Austrailian Anthony Wesley. 072309 |
| Neptune and Triton, RGB, 09/06/09, near opposition |
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| Combined two images. Neptune taken at f29 and Triton, its largest moon, at f10 (then enlarged). |
| It's getting farther, week from closest pass, f/29 |
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| RGB image of Saturn on 3/16, good seeing but fog was rolling in, storms visible |
| It's getting closer, Venus URGB, f10, 3/5/09 |
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| Can see crescent with binos easily, try with naked eye to test your vision |
| Mercury is always around - RGB 200% f/29 10/21/08 |
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| But usually is too close to Sun - it was about 15 deg from horizon in morning (east) - poor seeing |
| It's getting farther, Uranus RGB 9/6/08, 200% f29 |
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| Same image scale as Neptune. A lot of green when imaging, less blue but boosted blue. 6th from Sun |
| Near Mars' closest distance to Earth for 2007 |
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| (It's getting farther too) |
This is an LRGB photo of Mars made on 12/21/07 05:52 GMT. It's centered near Eden but Syrtis Major is still
visible. I have an 11" SCT and used a monochrome Imaging Source USB 60 fps camera at f/25. I used Registax,
Photoshop and Maxim DL during processing. Thanks for visiting!
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