Akule secondary spider holder

FPI-Protostar didn't come through for me, so I picked up a great looking Curved Vane spider from Scope Stuff, who OEM's the 800Destiny holders

Akule Mirror Cell

The tabs are out to the manufacturer to be shortened and drilled out to 3/8" mount points.

Jupiter with Ganymede Eclipse

Main site

This was night 4 of 4 and the current longest consecutive stretch of nights in a row.  I set out to capture Io emerging from transit at nearly the same time as a eclipse of Ganymede.  

One of the best RGBs that started the night off before the seeing really fell apart. (click image for high res)

One of the better red channels (click image for high res)

Here is the animation, which consists of 57 sub images.  Each frame is a separate 10s capture at 50fps.  I tried to set the frame rate in the animation at 25ms.  The capture duration is from 05:36 UT to 05:51 UT. 

http://maphilli14.webs.com/Astronomy/8-Webs/SolarSystem/Jupiter/2010/20100831/j2010-08-31_r_mp-flash-25ms.gif

Enjoy!

Mike

Jupiter 2010 11 13 - GRS and GRS Jr

Mostly avg seeing!

Sunset + Autumn + Lake + Bike = Magic!

Jupiter Oct 23/24

BE SURE TO CLICK EACH PHOTO FOR HIGH-RES views!!!

Two nights of decent to above average seeing and a nice double transit weekend before last.

1st night had better seeing:  Oct 23, 2010

Great Red Spot

Io off limb

Io in transit and shadow on globe

Oct 24, Dual moon events:

Left to Right -- Ganymede, Io, Europa (under Ganymede's shadow) and Europa's shadow just on the right edge...

By 0224UTC Io has disappeared behind Jupiter, but seeing improved such that Europa is clearly defined and it's shadow has moved further towards the center

Fishing

Most largemouth are caught at the local club (Durham County Wildlife Club)
Trout are from various location in the NC mountains