The Dutch Observatory

Where are those rainy and cloudy days good for?   To reprocess and  process the images which have not been processed yet. The seeing that night was terrible, but I am glad with the way the reprocessed series came out.   Here an overview of half of the double mutual event on January 28th when Io got eclipsed by the shadow of Europa.  The full double event can be seen in the animation. Click image on right for the animation.

I had a little time this morning with clear skies.  However, the seeing was terrible.  Only a full disk image today, too unstable and too cold for close ups (21 degrees with windshield of 12) .  The Sun shows a bit more activity today with 7 small active regions except 2282 which still shows a size of 140 millionth.  Total count of spots is 25 and three flares in the last 24 hours out of 2282.