Saturn 20200906
Saturn is another favourite target and this again was the first imaging run in weeks, possibly since opposition. With very heavy processing the Cassini division just comes out, but there…
Jupiter 20200906
It has actually been just 2 or 3 weeks since my last imaging night with Jupiter. This is in the early evening, maybe an hour after sunset and before Jupiter…
Jupiter 20200907
Greetings! After almost a month of being too busy in the gardens/cloudy nights, here is the best image from last night (Sunday 2020 Sept 06) in the evening. Most of…
Jupiter 2020 August 16 UTC
Greetings! Saturday night was imaging Jupiter with: a) cleaned optics (camera window, barlow) b) removed 90 deg adapter (gaining 10-20% in exposure times due to one less 80-90% reflective surface)…
Jupiter 2020 Aug 14 UTC
>> Jupiter satellite events from project pluto >> I = IO > II = EUROPA > III = GANYMEDE > UTC-4 hours=EDT > > II : Tra start: 14 Aug…
Jupiter Saturn 2020 Aug 13 UTC
Another night of developing imaging workflow for the Meade 102mm SC. Tonight was with a x2 barlow, taking it from FL=1000mm to 2000mm. This small Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope has only a…
Jupiter 2020Aug12 02:48-03:14UTC
Imaging Jupiter last night during the Perseids, waiting for midnight to come for hopefully better and more meteor displays. These are before and after Registax v6 wavelet processing, to show…
Perseids, Saturn, Jupiter and Sagittarius
This is the only Perseid meteor captured on the DSLR camera, a 20 sec exposures of the southern sky last night, just after setting up no less! This one is…
Comet C/2020 F3 Neowise
And from this morning, Tuesday 2020 July 21st, just after midnight. Very low to the horizon and soon to disappear behind the trees. Catch it if you can after sunset…
Comet C/2020 F3 Neowise
My first good (in focus!) image of the first naked eye comet in decades! Taken Wednesday July 15th from outside Yarker, Ontario The image specs are in the filename. Nice!…
Jupiter at opposition 2020 July
Greetings! I have been looking forward to the opposition of Jupiter for *ages*. Unfortunately I do not yet have my dream setup and am cobbling together anything that will capture…
More air needed
A few things happened over the last few days of *NOTWORK*. Gotta love those things called “holidays”!!! The SCGO Observatory was getting a little hot in the days of the…
More wheelz!
Some time ago I had asked if anyone had done an elementary physics experiment in friction. Does adding more wheels to a rolloffroof observatory reduce the static (starting) friction and…
astronomy! At Last!
This is an image of the imaging laptop screen while I was imaging Jupiter on Sunday morning at 03:32 EDT. Yes.. before sunrise! I am using an ASI ZWO 290MC…