October 8, 2009 on 8:02 am | In Mars, Planets | Comments Off
Two images of Mars from this morning. Both Transparency and Seeing were great this morning. Temperature was around 57 degrees and the humidity was 87%. I captured these images with a gamma setting of 73 which I believe ends up in a better contrast.
October 8, 2009 on 6:58 am | In Uncategorized | Comments Off
Tomorrow the LCROSS will impact the crater Cabeus on the South Pole on the moon. Dan Schmitt and I spend some time last week getting familiar with the area where the impact will happen. This morning I made a trial run of the event. Here are two of the images made of the crater and impact area. The Centaur upper stage is anticipated to impact at 7:31:30 and LCROSS is following at 7:35:45 Easter Time. In the left image the impact location is in the right wing of the dark area a little left of the center, just behind the brighter spot. (Reminds me of a soaring Eagle) Tomorrow I intend to use another barlow whith a little more magnification and center around this area. Keep my fingers crossed that not in the last minute a cloud will obscure the event as 4 months ago when a 1/2 hour storm came though as I was ready to image an ISS transit of the Sun.
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