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Posts Made By: Roland Christen

July 8, 2014 12:40 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Mars July 3 2014

Posted By Roland Christen
Taken with 10" F14.6 Mak-Cass, QHY 5L-II color camera. Seeing varied from good to poor over 20 minute time period. Mars diameter just under 9 arc sec.

Rolando

July 8, 2014 12:43 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Saturn July 3, 2014

Posted By Roland Christen
Taken with 10" F14.6 Mak-Cass under medium seeing. Camera type QHY 5-II color. Approximately 20,000 video frames added in Registax.

Rolando

July 9, 2014 02:57 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Baked potato on the Moon

Posted By Roland Christen
Also known as Schiller.
One of the more famous elongated craters on the Moon.

Rolando

July 14, 2014 11:22 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Saturn July 9

Posted By Roland Christen
Best night yet for Saturn imaging. Quite steady seeing until about midnight.

Rolando

July 15, 2014 12:31 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Mars July 9

Posted By Roland Christen
Two images of Mars taken 1 hour apart. First image taken during daylight while sun was still up at 7:20pm, next image taken an hour later at 8:20 pm. You can see the rotation - approximately 15 degrees, similar to Earth's rotation.

10" Mak-Cass, QHY-5II camera.

Rolando

July 16, 2014 02:28 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Moon Mosaic

Posted By Roland Christen
Made up of 21 separate frames from the QHY-5II camera, taken in July 9, 2014 with AP 10" Mak-Cass. This is a half size image.

Rolando

July 16, 2014 04:59 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Moon's bottom

Posted By Roland Christen
Area around the crater Plato

August 12, 2014 12:46 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

NGC6334 - Cat's Paw nebula

Posted By Roland Christen
NGC 6334 (also known as the Cat's Paw Nebula, Bear Claw Nebula and Gum 64) is an emission nebula located in the constellation Scorpius. It was discovered by astronomer John Herschel in 1837, who observed it from the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa.
The image was taken remotely with the AP 305mmF8 Mak-Cass astrograph located at Las Campanas observatory in Chile.

Rolando

August 12, 2014 12:54 AM Forum: Astro-Physics

Cat's Paw nebula

Posted By Roland Christen
NGC 6334 (also known as the Cat's Paw Nebula, Bear Claw Nebula and Gum 64) is an emission nebula located in the constellation Scorpius. It was discovered by astronomer John Herschel in 1837, who observed it from the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa.

The image was taken remotely with the AP 305mmF8 Mak-Cass astrograph located at Las Campanas observatory in Chile.

Rolando

August 12, 2014 11:02 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

Helix nebula

Posted By Roland Christen
The Helix Nebula, also known as The Helix, NGC 7293, is a large planetary nebula located in the constellation Aquarius.
This image was taken in H-a light at our remote station in Chile with the 305mmF8 astrograph, by Dave Jurasevich.

Rolando

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