Jupiter 2024Feb14
Planetary Imaging during a RASCKC monthly meeting. I love it! This was from the evening of Wednesday 2024 Feb14th and seeing and transparency seemed to be almost dare I say…
Autostakkert!V3 vs V4
I was made aware of an update to Autostakkert! a mainstay of my astronomical image processing. I have been using V3 for some years now… V4 is now out. AutoStakkert!…
Jupiter 20240129 and its funky moons
An unusual sequence of events occurred with Jupiter and its moons on the evening of Monday 2024 January 29th. The moon Europa moving right to left, disappeared in behind Jupiter.…
Meade DS90 telescope and mount
This is a short 480p video that shows the issue with this donated telescope.
(10062) kim hay imaged!
A great big thank you to Malcolm for his imaging of Minor Planet (10062) kimhay last night… from Chile! 12 x 600s exposures TEC140 at 1024mm focal length, f/7 with…
Jupiter 20240101
2023 ended with 55 observatory imaging sessions, slightly above the goal of 50 set one year ago. The goal this year is 60 imaging sessions. 2024 started well Monday evening…
Geminid Meteor Shower 2023Dec14
Above/left is the night of Dec 12/13 Below is the SCGO Allsky2/UWO10 camera system meteor detection summary image showing 57 events of Dec 13/14. This system is designed for fireballs…
Supersid 2023Dec
The SCGO Supersid system has been running since 2016. For the first few years it ran on a windows computer with windows supersid software. This 2023 spring we moved to…
Jupiter 2023Nov24
It was a busy busy Friday evening.. what with it being the only clear night for the next week or so. The new ZWO miniscope was mounted to the Vixen…
Minor Planet (20021) Kevinkell
(20021) Kevinkell = 1991 VM6 Discovery: 1991-11-06 / E. W. Elst / La Silla / 809 Kevin Kell (b. 1963) is a Canadian amateur astronomer who has served RASC Kingston…
Partial Annular Solar Eclipse 20231014
This image was taken just after maximum eclipse. Serendipitously an aircraft flew right over it. We missed the actual aircraft part but we did catch the contrails left by its…
Jupiter 20230922
The best of this mornings imaging run of Jupiter. The best 5% which also shows Europa in the upper left and the great red spot as well. The latest animated…
Jupiter 2nd night 20230828
From later in the morning on Monday. Jupiter was almost overhead… 60 degrees of altitude! very little if any atmospheric dispersion in colouring but still not absolutely clear or steady.…
Jupiter? 20230827
This is Jupiter believe it or not. This is in the middle of a run of approx 10 runs that were batch processed in Autostakkert! v3 and is the only…
Jupiter 20230827
Jupiter later the same morning as the previous Saturn post. Still not really great… I am still trying to recreate the 2016 ultracrisp seeing images that I took. This shows…