Well this has been a long time coming… It’s been over 4 months since my last planetary image! A combination of bad weather, bad seeing and very low motivation for astrophotography (mainly the latter) has meant I just didn’t have my telescope out for literally 4+ months. I’m trying to force myself back into it, [...]
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Jupiter at Opposition – 14th August 2009
I had some nice clear skies on the night of the 14th August, 2009 – when Jupiter was at opposition for the 2009 season. Being at opposition means the Sun, Earth and Moon form a straight line – and Jupiter is at its closest point to Earth in its orbit around the Sun, and it [...]
Jupiter with Io Transit and Animation – 8th August
On Saturday night 8th August, I was able to capture some images of Jupiter with Io and its shadow in transit. The seeing was just above average – good enough to capture albedo features on Io, including the dark polar regions in contrast against the cloud tops of Jupiter. The best image from the session [...]
Jupiter with the Wesley Impact Scar – 3rd August
Hi all On the night of the 3rd August, what started as typically below average seeing, finally improved as the seeing reached a respectable almost 7/10 and gave some of my best views of Jupiter this year. I was able to catch the 6th magnitude star 45 Cap in the same field of view as [...]
Jupiter, GRS and Wesley Impact Scar – 24th July
After breaking the news of Anthony Wesley’s discovery of an impact scar on Jupiter on Monday morning (while I was waiting to board a plane to Melbourne), Friday night was my first opportunity to capture an image of the now famous “Wesley Impact Scar”, or “Bird Strike” (Anthony’s forum name is “bird”). The image above [...]
Jupiter and Oval BA from July 5th
It’s been a while between posts – I’m currently up on the Sunshine Coast for a work conference, and have finally had a few spare moments to finish off this image. This image was captured on Monday morning, 6th July local time (5th July UT), in slightly above average seeing. It shows Oval BA still [...]
Jupiter, GRS and NEB Upheaval Animation
Captured on the 23rd June (local time), this animation represents 3 hours of rotation on Jupiter, as the Great Red Spot (quite a bit paler this year) transits across the face of the gas giant. Also visible, down lower on the NEB, is the new “NEB Upheaval” – a series of new spots and disturbances [...]
Venus in False Colour – 23rd June 2009
This image of Venus in Ultra Violet light was captured on the morning of the 23rd June – the same morning that I captured my first Mars of 2009 and Jupiter with the NEB Upheaval. It was a busy morning! The colours reveal some albedo differences in the cloud tops on Venus, and come from a combination [...]
Mr First Mars for 2009 – at a tiny 4.9 arcseconds
On Tuesday morning, 23rd June 2009 I captured my first image of Mars for 2009. It’s still very early in the season, with Mars still 288 million kilometres away, subtending a tiny diameter of a 4.9″ on the sky. Mars doesn’t reach opposition until late January, 2010 when it will be 14 arcseconds in diameter – [...]
Jupiter, GRS and NEB outbreak – June 23
Hi all Finally – the first clear night in weeks and my first imaging opportunity since May 25! I’ve got loads of data to process, but I wanted to quickly process this one and get it out there because a) I won’t get much time to process many more images in the next day or [...]
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