In the From the Vault series, I feature an older image which hasn’t been seen here before and I talk about the capture and processing and hopefully highlight why this image is special to me. The feature image in From the Vault this week is a portrait of Jupiter and the Galilean Moons, the Jovian system [...]
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A Birthday Saturn Image
Hi all This image of Saturn was captured on the morning of the 6th January 2009 at about 2am, but it was still my birthday in Universal Time / GMT. The seeing was maybe a little above average but I was really tired, so it didn’t take much to convince myself that the seeing wasn’t [...]
Image of the Rosette Nebula (NGC2237)
Hi all This image was captured on the 30th January 2009 at my local “dark sky” site at the Mangrove Mountain Pony Club. I say “dark sky” in quotes because while it’s darker than my home, it’s not exactly what you’d call a nice dark sky site as it’s still only 20 minutes from Gosford [...]
From the Vault: High-Resolution Clavius Mosaic
In the From the Vault series, I feature an older image which hasn’t been seen here before and I talk about the capture and processing and hopefully highlight why this image is special to me. The feature image in From the Vault this week is a high-resolution mosaic image of the Clavius crater on the Moon, [...]
From the Vault: Dynamic Jupiter in Motion
In the From the Vault series, I feature an older image which hasn’t been seen here before and I talk about the capture and processing and hopefully highlight why this image is special to me. The feature image in From the Vault this week shows a Dynamic Jupiter in Motion with an image montage and [...]
Saturn in Better Seeing – 19th January
Hi all This image of Saturn was captured on the morning of the 19th January 2009, in variable but at times quite stable seeing conditions. It’s been so long since I’ve seen excellent seeing conditions that I feel i’m over-estimating the conditions of late, and have done so again with this image but it’s the [...]
Venus in Ultra Violet Light, 14th January 2009
Hi all This image of Venus was captured on the evening of the 14th January 2009 as the planet reached maximum elongation (greatest apparent distance) from the Sun. Still, the altitude at capture was only 25° and the atmospheric turbulance was very evident. It’s my first capture of Venus in over 10 months and I [...]
Saturn – January 14th, 2009
Hi all Although my body was aching from my first sparring class in over 4 weeks at Karate the night before, I was still determined to get up at 2am to image Saturn on the morning of the 14th January. The very hot days we’ve had and the High Pressure system sitting over the NSW [...]
The Planets in 2008 – A Pictorial Review
Hi all For the past 3 years, I’ve been doing a pictorial review of the planets – making a composite image of my best planetary images taken during that calendar year. You can see the old composites here: 2005, 2006, 2007 (click on the image to see the full size). For 2008, I didn’t think I’d be able to [...]
My First Saturn Image for 2009
Hi all It’s been 2 months since I captured a planetary image.. I’d almost forgotten how to do it! Saturn was finally high enough and bright enough, and the seeing was good enough, for me to use my 5x powermate. [image:879:c:l=g] It’s only my 2nd Saturn image of this apparition and my first since early [...]
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My name is Mike Salway and I'm an amateur astronomer and photographer. I'm the co-founder of IceInSpace, and this is my personal blog site and image gallery.
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