Jupiter 2022 Dec 09
The best of Jupiter on Friday evening, just after it went past due south az=180 degrees. The best 5% of the run with 30K frames… I think I will reprocess…
RadioJove functions!
After many weeks of issues with the RadioJove v1 system, we finally got it operational again a few days ago. Some of the recording levels seemed a little low but…
asteroid 2022 WJ1 Fireball 2022nov19 082652UTC
As you may have heard, a newly discovered 1m asteroid crashed into the atmosphere mere hours after discovery. The UWO Allskycamera network captured it and was able to provide a…
Jupiter 2022Nov02
Awesome! A Double Shadow Transit of Jupiter’s moons Wednesday evening. Below is an animated GIF of approx 45 runs of 180 seconds each, with no delay between each. Each was…
Jupiter 2022nov01
An awesome evening yesterday… If I had only know there would be moon shadows I would have stayed out! These are two still images showing the moon Io moving left…
More collimation video
Still trying to understand the collimation status of the Vixen VC200L telescope. This is a 30 second video of being outside of the focus point Air currents can be seen…
Got collimation?
Over the last few months we do not seem to be getting the performance out of our 20cm Vixen telescope. Everything has been cleaned, the 90 degree diagonal has been…
Local seeing is not good
Tuesday evening around 20:00 local I opened up the observatory with the intent to do an optical collimation and some imaging of Saturn and Jupiter. It was hazy, The near…
Jupiter 20220930
This is the first image of Jupiter since the 2022 opposition (4 days past opposition). Altitude was at max , seeing and transparency were average, but the focus still was…
Fireball 20220924 00:36:05 UTC
Greetings! Another great fireball event captured by the UWO Yarker 10 (SCGO allsky2) camera system Friday evening at 20:36:05 EDT. At least 5 people saw this visually, directly at the…
Autostakkert, CPU and RAM part 1
Greetings! This is Autostakkert! v3.1.4 – 64 bit I have gone through three computers in the last two years, that I use for astronomical image processing. Each one was a…
Jupiter 2022 Sept 02 evening
And again a first in ages… a second imaging run in the same day, the first early on Friday morning, this second run late on Friday evening. Jupiter is still…
Saturn 20220902 Evening
And this is from the same day as last but in the evening observing session… first time in ages that there was a morning and an evening session! Too bad…
Jupiter 2022Sept02 morning
From the morning of Friday 2022 Sept 02 after doing some runs of imaging Saturn. As it turns out, this 4 or 5th imaging session, the exposure started to drop…
Saturn 20220902
Saturn on the morning of Friday 2022Sept02. North is up, altitude only 28 degrees above the horizon. I count seven distinct cloud bands north of the rings. I found a…