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Sunday, August 17, 2008
Some Old Favorites
Well, I guess all the planets are pretty old. But, I went back and added a couple of pictures on a new Mars sub-page (Mars
08-01-02) and several new pictures to the Saturn page. The weather has afforded me some extra time to go back and try some
of my newer techniques on my old AVI's.
To try to see what Saturn really looks like (without our atmosphere in the
way) I went to the NASA/JPL Cassini and found some raw R, G, B images that hadn't been processed yet. I didn't do much to
them but I put them together into a RGB image. I added them to a new page called NASA JPL Pictures under the Saturn page.
I also added one new Globular Cluster in LRGB and a couple new Jupiter pictures.
8:49 pm cdt
Sunday, August 10, 2008
New Jupiter Page
I separated some of the Jupiter pics and created a new page called Jupiter's Moons. I bet you can guess what sort of pictures
I put on that page. Although, moons are sprinkled a bit in other places too. The centerpiece on the new page is a picture
of Jupiter with all four of its largest moons.
I also uploaded a new globular cluster. Someone helped me to identify
it as M30. It was very late when I took the video and I didn't remember to label it.
It's been sort of cloudy. Plus
we had a tropical storm roll by so hopefully there will be more clear skies soon! Last night was OK (two new pics uploaded)
but maybe tonight will be better.
5:01 pm cdt
Saturday, August 2, 2008
A Night of Good Seeing
"Seeing" refers to how turbulent the atmosphere. On 7/30, it was quite calm and the seeing was very good (although
I struggled with my telescope). So, the new pics on the Jupiter page are clearer than the ones on nights with average
seeing.
I've also added another color Planetary Nebula to the PN page (under Milky Way). It's called The Little Gem because
it sort of looks like, well, a little gem. I can see why that name was chosen a lot easier than the Wild Duck Cluster,
that's for sure.
Surprisingly, I got The Eagle Nebula from home. It's a pretty faint nebula compared to the others I have tried.
I used a filter to block out most of the light pollution. It's not a great picture but it tells me I have more
possibilities for pictures in the future. It's on the Nebulae page (under Milky Way).
There's also two new globular clusters on the GC page (under Milky Way). The summer sky is starting to get away
from me so I tried to do a few things other than Jupiter before it is too late. In the fall, as our view turns away
from the Milky Way again, there will be chances to image galaxies again...
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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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