Jupiter 2015 Apr 16 01:30 UT
Jupiter last night (21:23 EDT). Tried using the Televue x2.5 barlow and focus was incredibly soft. Went back to no barlow at all and this is the result. Standard 6ms…
Jupiter 2015 April 15
First image of Jupiter in the observing run last night. 2015 April 15 at 00:48 UT. Using a 20cm Meade LX200, a ZWO ASI 120MC camera, firecapture software and autostakkert!…
Saturn 2015 April 14
Saturn on the morning of Tuesday 2015 April 14th, about 04:00 EDT 20cm Meade LX200GPS (FL=2000mm) with a celestron x2 barlow (=FL=4000mm) and ZWO ASI 120MC camera. 744 frames of…
Jupiter 2015 April 07
Went out last night at 23:30UT and at 01:00 UT April 8th. I try to file this run as 2015April07 It gets confusing imaging across the UT midnight. 1st time…
Jupiter 2015 April 01
Got in some quick imaging of Jupiter after 9pm local last night. Almost full moon within 30-40 degrees of Jupiter did not help too much. Meade 10cm SC F10 FL=1000mm…
Math is fun!
Leo Laporte on Twit.tv was recently talking about a new internet connected talking Barbie with the infamous “Math is Hard!” scandal. Well.. math is not hard and this is simple…
Jupiter 2015 March 28
Both Kim & I were out saturday night during Earth Hour, doing imaging runs of the moon and Jupiter. A brief survey of the local neighbourhood showed little to no…
Jupiter 2015 March 23
A good imaging session of Jupiter last night – 2015 March 23 Local from around 19:45 to 20:15 EDT (UT-4) For the first time this year, a dew shield was…
Jupiter 2015 March 05
Another night of imaging Jupiter. Used a newer version of firecapture 2.4.0.8 beta for the first time. Might have been a little slower with a few usb bus artifacts. Seeing…
Jupiter 2015Feb28
This was the first clear night where the temperatures were not colder than -20C with a stiff wind. Even so it was about -15 with a little breeze early Saturday…
Lunar imaging
This is the first attempt at lunar imaging (Mare Crisium region) with the ZWO ASI 120MC camera on a 10cm Meade SC Monday night (2015 Feb 23) in the late…
Conjunction
A nice grouping of Mars (top, dim), Venus (left, bright) and a crescent Moon on Friday 2015 Feb 20th. Taken with a small Canon Powershot on a tripod, 1 second…
Jupiter & imaging
One of the really nice things about digital imaging is that when you screw up, there is still a chance that you can fix things. Back on the early morning…
Jupiter 20150130
Friday evening, early cause it was getting cold, I went out and was upgrading the learning curve of imaging by switching from the 20cm dobsonian (fl=1200mm) and a drift scan…
Imaging Jupiter
1st time outside in weeks to do some imaging of Comet Lovejoy. Total Bust. Managed to find it in the scope but its much too big to see in the…