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December 17, 2008 06:32 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Amazing movie!

Hi Dan, thanks for that post. What you are seeing are not meteors, but charged particles from the Sun impacting the CCD chip on the SOHO camera. Regarding the Saggitarius star cloud, I love seeing it every year at this time as it swings by SOHO's view. Here is a stack I did last year of it:

http://www.setisociety.org/soho22Dec07regtwoproc.jpg

The galactic center is within this image (per Starry Night Pro) at the 5 o'clock position. The circular feature in the center of the image is the occluded Sun. The two bright streaks near the Sun are the trails of Mercury and Jupiter over hours of time.

Regards, Jason H.

Dan Petersen said:

Hi all:

Here is an awesome six day movie of our sun as it slowly pulls away from Mars (the bright star to its right), and then approaches the Sagittarious star fields. Also notice the hundreds of meteors, and last but not least the powerful CME exploding off of the Sun's eastern limb! http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/LATEST/current_c3.mpg
This movie is 7.2 MB, it may take a couple of minutes to download. Hope you enjoy it, Dan

December 19, 2008 07:32 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Venus at 63% illumination (18 Dec, '08)

Posted By Jason Higley

Thanks to a tip from Freddy in the other forum, I've reprocessed my avi, and fiddled with the exposure this time too, which permitted much better scale and natural planet shape!!!

http://setisociety.org/venusMVI_1307rgbprocpt5rox.jpg

Regards, Jason H.

Jason Higley said:

Venus from tonight (Dec. 18, 08)

http://setisociety.org/venusMVI_1307reg2.jpg

13% neutral density Moon filter, Celestron #96 filter, and a Light Blue filter. Afocal via Canon A590 in video mode, stacked ~960 frames, Criterion RV-6 scope, 10mm EP, 2x barlow and used the 4x camera optical, but I decided during post-processing to reduce the shot to 75% of original.

This shot was taken late in a lenthy session; I actually started in the daytime when Venus was at Zenith, and tried multiple experiments and tried to use the IR-pass filter, but I couldn't recover Venus at a higher magnification, so when Venus started slipping away near the end of the session, I decided to try to at least get tonight's phase.

Regards, Jason H.

January 24, 2009 07:09 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Afocal Saturn Jan 22, '09

Posted By Jason Higley

A kinder, gentler Saturn

http://setisociety.org/SATURN22JAN09-MVI_0587sl2rep.jpg

I tossed out an additional ~hundred frames this time, 2 wavelets sliders in Registax, no post-Registax sharpening.

Regards, Jason Higley

Jason Higley said:

Saturn - the first time I've used the Canon SX-100 for a planet shot

http://setisociety.org/SATURN22JAN08-MVI_0587REG3SLROX.jpg

26mm Meade Super Plossl eyepiece, 10 camera optical zoom 2x ultima
barlow, Criterion RV-6 scope

And 12 million light years away the same point-n-shoot camera (which is limited to 15 second exposures) could see some of the irregular galaxy M82 in Ursa Major

http://setisociety.org/M82-16FRAMESCROP.jpg

28mm Edmund Plossl eyepiece, Criterion RV-6 scope

Both shots were taken this morning (Jan. 22,09, I made a typo on the Saturn file name.) By the time that Saturn shot was taken there was frost on my eyepiece box and car and it was below freezing locally (I'm 12 miles North of Orlando.)

Regards, Jason H.

January 30, 2009 01:56 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Saturn from Chiefland, FL

Posted By Jason Higley

Way to go Dan! (a long way :^) I've never seen a Rhea shadow transit.

Thanks and regards, Jason H.

Dan Petersen said:

Hi, here is a shot taken January 22nd, 9:14UT. Meade 10" SCT at F/44, Philips SPC900NC webcam. Saturn was at an altitude of 65.5 degrees. The moon Rhea and its shadow are visible. Cheers, Dan

February 11, 2009 03:45 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Titan Transit Egress

Posted By Jason Higley

Nice going Chris! I especially like the transition from the limb!!!

Jason H. (Orlando/DPS/CFAS :^)

Christopher Go said:

Hi,

Just posted my images for the Feb 8 transit of Titan. You can see the images at my website at:

http://saturn.cstoneind.com

Regards,
Chris

March 7, 2009 08:25 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Saturn, March 6

Posted By Jason Higley

That storm is pretty cool too!

Jason H.

Anthony Wesley said:

Some good seeing again for a while last night, just after 1am. This is an animation of two red channel images taken a few minutes apart. A lot of cloud detail is visible, as well as two moons.

Here's a link to the image:

http://www.acquerra.com.au/astro/gallery/saturn/20090306-1404-1411-R/s20090306-1404-1411.gif

regards, Anthony

March 19, 2009 04:16 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System