The Dutch Observatory

The first evening with some clear skies.  Transparency and Stability were very low and the seeing was not good either.  High clouds kept moving through the sky with some lower clouds obstructing the view completely at times.  However, I had to give Jupiter another try.

I did receive my scope back from Celestron last week and over the weekend I finished my new wedge, so here is a new image from Jupiter from Sunday night. The image was taken about 2:42 UT on July 21, 2008.  The image was taken with the CPC925 and the DMK21AU-04AS in direct focus at F/10.

I am pretty happy with the increase in detail which I am getting with the wedge!  Need to check the collimation and exposure times for captures with the barlow. 

Here some images of the Moon from the evening of July 11th made at Charlie Elliott. Since my CPC was still in repair, Jon, let me put my camera on the back of his LX200R and run some AVIs of several objects on the moon. The air was very unstable and the wind caused the image to float a lot. The fog drifted in and out again.  However, the results are not too bad.

GRS transit on July 2. 2008.  Jon Wood and I made this image from Charlie Elliott using his scope, a 10″ LX200R on a EQ6 mount and my DMK24AU4.  We run 2000 frames each color at 30fps and 1/30 seconds each.