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…
Saturn 20241107
Out last evening (Thursday Nov 7) imaging Saturn. This is the best image of the best 10% of 10K frames exposed at 18ms. Saturn was only 35 degrees in altitude,…
Jupiter 20241103 UTC and Ganymede shadow transit
One of the best events of this apparition, a shadow transit of Ganymede from 20241103 02:39 UTC ending at 04:35, or 126 minutes. I completed 34 imaging runs of 180…
Saturn 20241102 now with gimp!
Saturn is now an evening object, and since I have been using my time for the morning imaging of Jupiter, Saturn has been awhile. Wow.. a cold cold night! was…
scgo radiojove x2 class flare 20241031-2100 utc
This is the capture by the SCGO RadioJove radio telescope yesterday, an X2 class flare. Not sure why we picked it up at all as 21:00utc-4=1700EDT.. the sun was still…
Jupiter 20241101
This is the 54th imaging session of 2024 in the Serenity Observatory at SCGO. This mornings three imaging runs of Jupiter occurred in nice warm 15C weather but with a…
Jupiter 20241031
After a very long time, and a bad incident with a cable jamming the scope, we are operational again! 1) a newly repaired heater in the telrad finder was installed…
Mars 20241027
Mars is now high enough to be out of the goop and is starting to show some nice detail. This is the best 5% of 15K frames exposed at 1ms…
Jupiter 20241027
First time out in 23 days… just installed the finderscope and camera as well. Works.. just not quite aligned and with no fine alignment ability we are back to shimming…