Mars 20250124
I must have been already brain frozen last night after two Jupiters (I had actually thought I did many more than that! Go Figure!), I thought to myself.. lets do…
Jupiter 20250124
This evening we went out at -5C thinking it would stay that way and just more than 30 minutes later, we came inside to discover the temp was in fact…
Prepping for gardening in January
We are learning of many new things online, and especially from Country View Acres on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/@CountryViewAcres In particular… more and better grow lights for starting seeds. So we picked…
Jupiter 20250109
This was the single best imaging run of 36 runs on a cold evening. The shadow transit is from Io, the top right moon is Ganymede. Io itself is on…
Mars 20250109
Some images of Mars…. 2024July, 2024 August with the Vixen VC200L 2024 October and last night 2025Jan09 with the Celestron C9.25 also included is the Sky&Tel Mars simulator showing topographical…
Celestron Dew heater installation
We have a new-to-us Celestron C9.25 Schmidt-Cassegrain OTA and as everyone knows, the front corrector plates on SCT’s are extremely prone to dew. So we have had an external strap…
Got WinJupOS?
Winjupos. A word that strikes fear into the hearts of image processors. You may have heard of it for its ability to “derotate” a series of planetary images, such as…