Wednesday, January 12, 2011
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.
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Jupiter with Ganymede Eclipse
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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.
Enjoy!
Mike
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Thursday, November 4, 2010
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
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