Thoughts from Starlight Cascade

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…

This is the massive planet Jupiter in the early morning hours of Sunday 2022August28. There are 39 usable runs of 180seconds each with a 120second delay between each, resulting in…

This is the Ring Planet Saturn in the early morning hours of Sunday 2022 August 28th.. just past midnight actually local Eastern Daylight Time. This is near peak altitude, which…

This is from late in the morning on Saturday 2022 August 20th. The scheduled 01:00 EDT imaging session was clouded out. But it did clear up enough around 05:00 to…

This is from Friday morning of Saturn nearing opposition. Close enough to not even matter! This is the best image of approx 34 runs that morning. It was at 07:33…

Last night was not too shabby! 78 events were recorded on the UWO Yarker #10 camera, aka Allsky2 here at SCGO: This is a wonderful double event… two separate meteors…

This is one of the better images of Jupiter on Saturday morning Seeing I judged to be average, transparency average or a little lower. 08:30 UTC = 04:30 EDT. The…

Jupiter on the morning of 2022 July31st… a night that was supposed to be clear but in reality had average seeing and poor transparency and more and more high cloud…

This is Jupiter from the last imaging run of the morning.. approaching 05:30 EDT on July 27th. Jupiter is approaching zenith and in a few more weeks it will be…

This is Jupiter from the same morning as the Saturn post below. Tuesday 2022 July 26 at04:45 EDT or 08:45 UTC. Jupiter is at a much higher altitude than the…

Saturn on the morning of Tuesday 2022 July 26, at 04:28 EDT or 08:28 UTC. I am still searching for a good reference to any of Saturn’s features, The Cassini…

Saturn is well placed in the morning sky after midnight, approaching opposition on 2022 August 14. At 01:00 EDT it will be at its highest altitude above the horizon, due…

This is a still image from last nights Allsky1Pi camera system, of aurora captured around 23:30:39 EDT, Thursday 2022 July 07. The moon was above the horizon and there were…