August 5, 2010 on 4:29 pm | In Jupiter, Planets | Comments Off
The forecast for this morning was great, but reality was different. Here Jupiter in below average conditions with its moon europa coming from behind the planet at the following limb (right). Especially the green and blue images were low quality.
August 4, 2010 on 1:24 pm | In Jupiter, Planets | Comments Off
We’ve had unstable weather for the last few days and the forecast for this morning was bad. However, I got up anyway. We had ground fog and very thin high clouds, but the stability seemed good. I imaged Jupiter and am very happy with the result. I hope my next sessions will be similar.
July 29, 2010 on 7:42 am | In Jupiter, Planets | Comments Off
The first morning since my C11 with transparency and seeing reasonable. I captured a lot more detail, but need to work on the collimation some more. Jupiter on July 29th, the GRS and Oval BA are very pale. Need to work some more on my color balance.
July 27, 2010 on 6:00 pm | In Jupiter, Planets | Comments Off
I had a chance to roughly collimate my scope Sunday evening, but the conditions were bad. The forecast for this morning were bad also and I had not planned on imaging. However, I saw a hole in the sky when I got up at 5:30 A.M.. When I was ready to image, a band of clouds had moved in. I managed to get half the avi of the red image to be OK but the green and blue were made through clouds. Here is the second image with the C11. As far as I am concerned this is not bad considering the conditions. Here Jupiter with the GRS, Oval BA, and Europa at the preceding limb.
July 26, 2010 on 5:17 pm | In Jupiter, Planets | Comments Off
I have changed my imaging platform from the C925 to the C1100. I now have to get familiar with an equatorial mount. I am using the EQ6 which seems to be a good mount, but using it is different than the fork arms of the CPC925. I have been fighting the weather checking this out. For now the scope is mounted on a tripod in my observatory until I have a new top plate for this mount for my pier. I also am waiting for better conditions to get the collimation right. Here my first image under marginal conditions with Jupiter being below 30 degrees high.
July 22, 2010 on 9:26 am | In Jupiter, Planets | Comments Off
Thin high clouds moved through this morning, requiring longer exposure time, but I was able to get one decent image. Here Jupiter and the GRS with Oval BA getting closer to the GRS. Also notice by comparing to the image of 7/05/2010 how the white spot in the NTropZone and the dark spot in the NTempZone have moved closer.
July 20, 2010 on 2:34 pm | In Jupiter, Planets | Comments Off
It is good to be back from New York again and being able to do some imaging. This morning seeing and transparency was about average and I made a few images of Jupiter. Here the last image of the session with the GRS getting ready to turn around the corner. The Oval BA and the GRS are getting closer and it will be interesting to see the close encounter when they reach each other in a few months.
July 7, 2010 on 11:30 am | In Jupiter, Planets | Comments Off
Steve Philips mentioned the Io transit for July 7 in his presentation last month. Here an image of Jupiter with Io, just before it ends its transit accross the planetary disk at the preceding limb . Conditions were less than fair with thin bands of clouds moving though.
July 5, 2010 on 9:30 am | In Jupiter, Planets, Uncategorized | Comments Off
Set the alarm for 4:30 and imaged Jupiter again this morning. Made three runs, but stopped since I did not see many good frames being recorded. Here the best of the three.
July 4, 2010 on 5:54 am | In Jupiter, Planets | Comments Off
Jupiter on July the 4th. The images came out better than I anticipated based on the conditions. Here the image just before 5:00 A.M. local time and an RGB only image taken about 15 minutes later.
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