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Thursday, July 30, 2009
New Impact Site on Jupiter - taken 7/23/09
8:08 pm cdt
Monday, July 13, 2009
More Jupiter
Imaged Jupiter last night and finally got the Great Red Spot region. It seems to be getting more active now as
it has edged towards the equator a little. Also posted another picture to the Jupiter page - a little earlier in the
session.
Also did some visual astronomy (a forgotten art) in dark skies in Bastrop TX. It's nice to see some of the old
favorites again!
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Jupiter on Independence Day
I woke up early this morning (actually it was more like taking a nap) and found Jupiter in pretty good skies. Just got back
from vacation a little while ago so there hasn't been much astrophotography lately. Plus the high pressure systems we had
before vacation left a pretty turbulent atmosphere.
I also changed filters to Orion LRGB. The other filters I used
before were for visual use and not photography use. So, hopefully these will work a bit better.
4:34 pm cdt
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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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