The Dutch Observatory

Another sunny and very quiet morning.   Images today with the DMK and the ASI120, but I am posting only the images made with the ASI120MM.  I like the results. The sun is very busy at the time and many small flares are being erupted.  I need to stay away from the ASI and the Klee 3x barlow.  The image looks too soft.  The full disk image with the focal reducer looks fine.

I started this morning different than normally and made some white light close up images first.  When I went back to my SolarMax40 for the full disk images I saw a big flare in action and was able to capture it.  This was an X2.1 flare which I caught at maximum in the full disk image.  I followed up with changing the camera and making an animation of the rest of the flare as it subsided.  The animation spans a time frame of 18 minutes starting 10 minutes after maximum.

Got up early this morning and was able to make few capture runs before the clouds got too much in the way.  Here the best of them, still with seeing and transparency not good at all.  The moon is Ganymede and the GRS is just moving off the planetary disk on the left.

The last day to catch up on.  Here the images from 2013-10-18 with a beautiful Sun

Images taken on 2013-10-13 (You can see my frustration of not having my internet up in the processing of the full disk images

My AT&T internet service has been down from 2013-10-07 until the 17th, so I am behind in posting.  Following the frustration about this, I don’t remember what the specifics were on that date but here are my images of the 10th.  This also is my 700th post in my blog since I started posting my images.

Here my images from 2013-10-09

The clouds and rain did not come until later in the day, so continued some experimenting with separation rings and my barlows.  Too many images to publish, but here the full disk image and a close up of 1857 and 1856.

It was supposed to rain and storm, but when I woke up at 5:00 the sky was clear.  So another opportunity to gain some experience with the ASI120MM imaging Jupiter.  Stability was not great but I am posting anyway what I got. I got reacquainted with Emiel Kraaikamp’s stacking software.  Wow, how that has come since the early beginnings.  Congratulations Emiel!!   Two days in a row the GRS!!

The sun is out again this morning, so here a few experiments with the old cameras and the new ASI120MM.  All images are annotated with the equipment the image was taken for those who are interested.