Jupiter 2008-10-14

Observation logs

Object: Jupiter

Planet

Origin:

ObservationManager - SolarSystem Catalog 1.0

Observer Michael A. Phillips Mr. Site Home Begin 2008-10-14 um 18:50:00-05:00 End 2008-10-14 um 20:47:00-05:00 Faintest star 3.0 mag Seeing 2 (good) Optics C8i Eyepiece PowerMate (V=812.8) Filter Astronomik LRGB Color Camera DMK21AF04 Sitzung 2008-10-14 um 18:50:00-05:00

Visual impression 3 captures in total, 1st two were best. Last one was horrible. I'm not confident on the settings. Records indicate 1/30s @ 15fps. Gain settings conflict with records as the gain values were low like I had set the exposure to 1/15 (like I tried to). I left the image captions as 1/15.

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Sessions: 2008-10-14 um 18:50:00-05:00

Begin:	2008-10-14 um 18:50:00-05:00
End:	2008-10-14 um 20:50:00-05:00

Weather:	Forecast yesterday was a near perfect 4/5 for both Seeing and transparency. Today, dropped to S 4/5 and T x or 0 / 5 Actual S: 8/10 T: 1/5 Haze and thin clouds
Equipment:	I used: Ubuntu 8.04 Linux and custom coriander 8" Celestron C8i SCT DMK 21AF04 2.5x PowerMate Astronomik LRGB filters True Tek Color Filter Wheel with visu diag
Comments:	Good seeing and a full moon had me thinking about Neptue and Uranus. After getting 2 x captures then putting the kids to bed I found the haze and upper level moisture (nicely responsible for the great seeing) was reflecting too much moonlight for getting dimmer planets. So I packed up and called it a night. On the bright side, I'm happy to see these great Jupiter results < 1 hr after packing up!

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Observer: Michael A. Phillips Mr.

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Site: Home

Longitude:	35.682°
Latitude:	-78.743°
Timezone:	UT-300 min

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Optics: C8i

Type:	SCT
Vendor:	Celestron
Aperture:	203.0 mm
Focal length:	2032.0 mm

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Eyepiece: PowerMate

Vendor:	TeleVue
Focal length:	2.5 mm

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Filter: Astronomik LRGB

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CCD Camera: DMK21AF04

Vendor:	The Image Source
Pixel:	640x480

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Created: 10/14/2008 21:30:18

Jupiter 2008-10-08

Observation logs

Object: Jupiter

Planet

Origin:

ObservationManager - SolarSystem Catalog 1.0

Observer Michael A. Phillips Mr. Site Home Begin 2008-10-07 um 19:50:00-05:00 End 2008-10-07 um 20:30:00-05:00 Seeing 2 (good) Optics C8i Eyepiece PowerMate (V=812.8) Filter Astronomik LRGB Color Camera DMK21AF04 Sitzung 2008-10-07 um 19:50:00-05:00

Visual impression GRS is setting on the right (West). No transit, but great movement in the animation. Seeing cooperated well too!

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Sessions: 2008-10-07 um 19:50:00-05:00

Begin:	2008-10-07 um 19:50:00-05:00
End:	2008-10-07 um 20:40:00-05:00

Weather:	Haze and thin clouds S: 8/10 T: 1/5
Equipment:	I used: Ubuntu 8.04 Linux and custom coriander 8" Celestron C8i SCT DMK 21AF04 2.5x PowerMate Astronomik LRGB filters True Tek Color Filter Wheel with visu diag
Comments:	Not a night I'd normally be going out as a slow moving cold front was moving in and brought a great amount of humidity and haze. Seeing forecast was good so I eyeballed the skies near Jupiter and decided to take a stab at it, especially with an attempt at an Io transit too. (Missed that)

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Observer: Michael A. Phillips Mr.

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Site: Home

Longitude:	35.682°
Latitude:	-78.743°
Timezone:	UT-300 min

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Optics: C8i

Type:	SCT
Vendor:	Celestron
Aperture:	203.0 mm
Focal length:	2032.0 mm

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Eyepiece: PowerMate

Vendor:	TeleVue
Focal length:	2.5 mm

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Filter: Astronomik LRGB

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CCD Camera: DMK21AF04

Vendor:	The Image Source
Pixel:	640x480

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Created: 10/09/2008 22:39:22

2008-09-01 Jupiter

Observation logs

Object: Jupiter

Planet

Origin:

ObservationManager - SolarSystem Catalog 1.0

Observer Michael A. Phillips Mr. Site Home Begin 2008-09-01 um 21:00:00-05:00 End 2008-09-01 um 21:10:00-05:00 Optics C8i Eyepiece PowerMate (V=812.8) Filter Astronomik LRGB Color Camera DMK21AF04 Sitzung 2008-09-01 um 21:00:00-05:00

Visual impression tech error night, new laptop not up to snuff/not configured properly. Then crashed once on software capture error, then human error, accidentally hit sudo halt. :( Got good caps despite extreme drops in temp. Especailly after using the Lymax cat cooler again while recovering from errors. Used old setup and refocused to get pretty good data!

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Sessions: 2008-09-01 um 21:00:00-05:00

Begin:	2008-09-01 um 21:00:00-05:00
End:	2008-09-01 um 23:30:00-05:00

Weather:	Awesome high pressure in place for next 3 days just before TS Hanna S: 7-8/10 T: 4/5
Equipment:	I used: Ubuntu 8.04 Linux and custom coriander 8" Celestron C8i SCT DMK 21AF04 2.5x PowerMate Astronomik LRGB filters True Tek Color Filter Wheel with visu diag
Comments:	Tested custom coriander on T61 (Cepheus) with no success this night.

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Observer: Michael A. Phillips Mr.

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Site: Home

Longitude:	35.682°
Latitude:	-78.743°
Timezone:	UT-300 min

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Optics: C8i

Type:	SCT
Vendor:	Celestron
Aperture:	203.0 mm
Focal length:	2032.0 mm

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Eyepiece: PowerMate

Vendor:	TeleVue
Focal length:	2.5 mm

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Filter: Astronomik LRGB

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CCD Camera: DMK21AF04

Vendor:	The Image Source
Pixel:	640x480

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Created: 10/02/2008 22:23:47

2008-09-30 Jupiter

Observation logs

Object: Jupiter

Planet

Origin:

ObservationManager - SolarSystem Catalog 1.0

Observer Michael A. Phillips Mr. Site Home Begin 2008-09-30 um 20:30:00-05:00 End 2008-09-30 um 21:40:00-05:00 Seeing 3 (fair) Optics C8i Eyepiece PowerMate (V=812.8) Filter Astronomik LRGB Color Camera DMK21AF04 Sitzung 2008-09-30 um 20:30:00-05:00

Visual impression Transit of Io. Poor seeing, but a good 45min+ time lapse imaging session shows the spot where Io is/should be.

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Sessions: 2008-09-30 um 20:22:00-05:00

Begin:	2008-09-30 um 20:22:00-05:00
End:	2008-09-30 um 22:00:00-05:00

Weather:	Forecast called for clouds. Surprisingly it cleared near dusk and stayed clear until a line of STRONG T-storms came in at 3am the same night. Seeing was avg or below 4-5/10 T: 3/5
Equipment:	I used: Ubuntu 8.04 Linux and custom coriander 8" Celestron C8i SCT DMK 21AF04 2.5x PowerMate Astronomik LRGB filters True Tek Color Filter Wheel with visu diag

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Observer: Michael A. Phillips Mr.

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Site: Home

Longitude:	35.682°
Latitude:	-78.743°
Timezone:	UT-300 min

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Optics: C8i

Type:	SCT
Vendor:	Celestron
Aperture:	203.0 mm
Focal length:	2032.0 mm

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Eyepiece: PowerMate

Vendor:	TeleVue
Focal length:	2.5 mm

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Filter: Astronomik LRGB

Typ:

Color

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CCD Camera: DMK21AF04

Vendor:	The Image Source
Pixel:	640x480

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Created: 10/02/2008 18:51:20

Jupiter in an 8" with Good Seeing

3 nights in a row of great seeing in early August.



My setup:

I use a Celestron C8i SE (orange tube) along with:

Ubuntu 8.04 Linux and custom coriander
DMK 21AF04
2.5x PowerMate
Astronomik LRGB filters
True Tek Color Filter Wheel with visu diag

some shots here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/maphilli14/MichaelAPhillipsAstronomyEquipment#5244213374458800210

http://picasaweb.google.com/maphilli14/MichaelAPhillipsAstronomyEquipment#5244213381800624706

Simple explanation of my v7 Processing routine:

1) Captured data saved as .fit in coriander
2) Sorted &amp; cropped in ninox
3) Drag &amp; Drop into Registax
4) No align, no reference, no optimize just stack and wavelet, save as .tif
5) Load each channel into Iris, adjust visu levels and set mono, adjust wavelets (slight)
6) Iris LRGB (trichro) function to assemble as RGB
7) Iris' unsharp mask
8) Iris resize and or final visu levels - save as .bmp for sending to gimp (anyone know any gimp/iris compatible formats, let me know!) and .jpg for web

Mike

Astronomy - Deep Sky - Nebula

Mike's Linux Destkop in action

comipz with the Atlantis plugin that puts an aquarium inside the desktop cube.