The Dutch Observatory

Today was a busy day with the chapter doing an outreach program for the Children School of Atlanta at Charlie Elliott Wildlife Center.  The seeing and transparancy were great but with a very high humidity, which required me to use my “hairblower” on the corrector plate several times to keep it from dewing over.  So I took the opportunity to finish the event making an image of Jupiter with the GRS.  Here Jupiter with the GRS and Europa.  Notice how the channel around the GRS has broken into the SEB.  I wonder how this will develop.

I’ve been imaging Mars earlier this week, but had problems processing them.  Here an image from this morning when the seeing was pretty good.  However I could hardly keep the dew off my corrector plate.  Here Mars as it becomes more active.