Saturn 20160417
Got up a little late on Sunday morning.. it was twilight already and Saturn was just about to go behind some trees. Wow.. the altitude is quite low! Note the…
Jupiter 20160417
Went outside for 15 minutes after getting home late Saturday night and did a couple of quick imaging runs of Jupiter. The Moon was getting brighter and closer to Jupiter…
LX200GPS command and control
I am attempting to upgrade the software command and control of the meade lx200gps (2003) and have some issues. The only software I have that has run reliably is handyavi…
Jupiter 20160414
Poor seeing and poor transparency with a 46% full moon less than 1/2 a sky away. GRS just leaving off the right side. Very smeary, fuzzy. Only did 11 runs…
Jupiter 20160409
After a good night of Public Outreach at the Queen’s University Observatory, the skies were still clear allowing for a short stint of imaging Jupiter. It was good to see…
Jupiter 20160409
A 3 hours gap in the cloud cover Friday evening had seeing and transparency at “average”. Jupiter was high up and was showing the Great Red Spot leaving the face.…
Jupiter 20160329
Wow… another clear night Tuesday night.. with no moon rising until after midnight! So outside to setup and start to image Jupiter from about 21:30-23:30 EDT. To my surprise, the…
Jupiter 20160326
Very good imaging run last night (Friday 2016 March 25) of Jupiter with the 20cm f10 with x2 barlow, asi120mc camera. The run went either side of Jupiter zenith, but…
Saturn 20160319
Possibly the best images of Saturn to date as well. Early Saturday morning, 7 imaging runs before it got too bright, from 06:23 to 06:31 EDT (10:23 to 10:31 UT)…
Jupiter 20160319
Possibly the best imaging runs of Jupiter to date. clear skies, -8C temp, and Jupiter near zenith. Started imaging at 20:53EDT on Friday evening 2016 March 18 and ended around…
Mars & Saturn 20160317
It cleared up unexpectedly this morning (Thursday 2016 March 17th) so a quick imaging run of Mars (very near beta scorpii) and Saturn. Both were horrible as even though near…
Jupiter 20160312
The first nice clear, nottocold night in a long time… too bad I could not stay awake any longer than I did… the last images were the best! Seeing was…
Jupiter 2016 March 08
The skies cleared unexpectedly Monday evening, with clouds all around and threatening to move in, So I bounced outside to open the observatory and start a quick imaging run. That…
Saturn 2016 March 06
Another clear patch forecast for this morning and presto chango! it was kinda not too bad clear. poor seeing and poor transparency. At 05:00 this morning it was already well…
Jupiter 20160304
Friday evening 2016 March 4th, showed the firstclear sky promise in a long time.. with several days earlier this week promising but not delivering. Tonight it delivered. Was not to…