Solar&Planetary LtE Now for CMO/ISMO in July 2023

My email address and website domain have changed. My email address is now awesley@acquerra.au, please use only this email address for me and remove any other ones you may have.

My website is now http://www.acquerra.au. Nothing else has changed except the domain name.

My old email and website will continue for a while longer but I plan to close the acquerra.com.au domain in the near future so they will stop working at some point.

All the best

Anthony Wesley (QLD, AUSTRALIA)

¤••••• Subject: Mars: July 22, 2023

Received: 22 July 2023 at 12:34 JST

Hi,

I have attached my Mars image July 22, 2023 at 00:09 UT.

This might be my last shot of the 2022 apparition.

https://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2022/230722/FMl22July23.png

Best,

Frank J MELILLO (Holtsville, NY)

¤••••• Subject: Jupiter 2023-07-20 UT

Received: 21 July 2023 at 21:40 JST

Jupiter images on 20 July 2023.

Best regards,

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, PHLIPPINES)

Cebu Observatory

¤••••• Subject: Saturn, July 19 IR750

Received: 20 July 2023 at 08:29 JST

Hi all, here's an image of Saturn from this morning in below average seeing.

We've had many days of poor seeing lately but this morning was marginally better, enough to record 6 runs in IR750 longpass and merge them in Winjupos.

best regards
Anthony

Link:
http://www.acquerra.com.au/astro/gallery/saturn/index.live?dir=/saturn&image=20230719-162930

Anthony Wesley (QLD, AUSTRALIA)

¤••••• Subject: Happy 'Day the Earth Smiled'! ... And a new beginning

Received: 20 July 2023 at 04:05 JST

The idea had its origins in my participation in the planning of the original 1990 Pale Blue Dot image of Earth taken by Voyager 1 from beyond the orbit of Neptune. I knew with a far better imaging system, like we would have on Cassini, a vastly better and more beautiful image of Earth from the vicinity of Saturn would be possible. And so, upon learning only 9 months after the original Pale Blue Dot image was taken, that I would be the imaging team leader on the Cassini mission, I vowed to myself to do the Pale Blue Dot image over again, only make it better.

It had occurred to me, in the planning of the Cassini redo, how great it would be if we let the people of the world know in advance that their picture would be taken from a billion miles away, and invite them at the appropriate time to go out, contemplate the isolation of our home in space, appreciate the rarity it is among the sun’s planets, marvel at all of life on Earth, and smile at simply being alive on a pale blue dot. It would be, I thought, a chance to stoke some planetary love among the inhabitants of Earth.

And so we sent out the word. The big day would be July 19, 2013. And as that day drew closer, the excitement grew.

I wrote a piece for the BBC website describing the 'why, how, when and where' of the upcoming event: https://tinyurl.com/ys8586bu

Richard Branson personally invited his fans and followers to join the party: https://tinyurl.com/79u5wab3

Morgan Freeman assisted in spreading the word by narrating a short video clip to the music of Stevie Wonder: https://tinyurl.com/yc8cxn7n

And at the appointed time, people the world over went outside, with friends and family, to look up, contemplate their own lives and cosmic whereabouts, and thrill at the thought of having their picture taken from so far away.

I suspect today there will be many remembrances of this event on social media. Here is one of which I'm sure: a chat I had with my friends at StarTalk, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice, about the genesis of the Day the Earth Smiled image and event: https://youtu.be/ed9cXc1sR4k

It is certainly for me a lovely memory, one I will enjoy until the end of my days.

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I also thought today would be a fine day to repurpose the old CICLOPS public email list that I used for 18 years to announce news of our fabulous discoveries during our 20-year journey to and around Saturn. The face of social media is rapidly changing and very uncertain. In response, I've decided to begin a newsletter of sorts that I would occasionally write to supplement, maybe even substitute, for social media in sharing my thoughts on important developments in the world and, of course, new scientific findings and advancements. It will, at the very least, be an interesting experiment. I hope you will agree.

If you know of others who would like to be included on the list, tell them they can subscribe at ...

https://listserv.ciclops.org/mailman/listinfo/announce ... or, send a blank email to announce-join@listserv.ciclops.org

Once I have approved the request, the newcomer will receive an email containing a link to click that will confirm their subscription.

For those of you who wish to be removed, that's easy too. Send a blank email to: announce-leave@listserv.ciclops.org

And that's it for now. Happy 'Day the Earth Smiled' to all of you!

With every good wish,

Carolyn Porco

¤••••• Subject: Jupiter 2023-07-16 UT

Received: 17 July 2023 at 17:07 JST

Jupiter images on 17 July 2023.

Best regards,

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, PHLIPPINES)

Cebu Observatory

¤••••• Subject: Saturn images, July 11th 2023

Received: 15 July 2023 at 18:22 JST

Hi all,

Here are my first Saturn images for the season. I have been lazy to run derotation so there is none here. The idea for me was only to take a look at the colors. On the southern winter hemisphere, the blue-absorbing chromophores are still not active, and at the result the colors are cold like in 2022. Green, pink, violet, some really rare colors for such a yellow planet!

Let's see if this evolves during the course of the apparition.

Christophe

Christophe PELLIER (Nantes, FRANCE)

Planetary astronomy and imaging

¤••••• Subject: Jupiter 2023-07-13 UT

Received: 14 July 2023 at 12:28 JST

Jupiter images on 13 July 2023.

Best regards,

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, PHLIPPINES)

Cebu Observatory

¤••••• Subject: Saturn, July 13 RGB IR750

Received: 14 July 2023 at 10:12 JST

Hi all, here are IR and RGB images of Saturn from this morning in average seeing.

The planet appears pretty quiet at this longitude.

RGB
http://www.acquerra.com.au/astro/gallery/saturn/index.live?dir=/saturn&image=20230713-163500

IR750
http://www.acquerra.com.au/astro/gallery/saturn/index.live?dir=/saturn&image=20230713-160036

Anthony Wesley (QLD, AUSTRALIA)

¤••••• Subject: Jupiter 2023-07-11 UT

Received: 12 July 2023 at 13:34 JST

Jupiter images on 11 July 2023.

Best regards,

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, PHLIPPINES)

Cebu Observatory

¤••••• Subject: Mars: July 12, 2023

Received: 12 July 2023 at 12:33 JST

Hi,

I have attached my image of Mars July 12, 2023 at 00:21 UT.

https://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2022/230712/FMl12July23.png

Thanks,

Frank J MELILLO (Holtsville, NY)

¤••••• Subject: Jupiter 2023-07-10 UT

Received: 11 July 2023 at 12:18 JST

Jupiter images on 10 July 2023.

Best regards,

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, PHLIPPINES)

Cebu Observatory

¤••••• Subject: Saturn 2023-07-07 UT

Received: 9 July 2023 at 16:07 JST

Saturn images on 7 July 2023.

Best regards,

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, PHLIPPINES)

Cebu Observatory

¤••••• Subject: Jupiter 2023-07-07 UT

Received: 9 July 2023 at 09:58 JST

Jupiter images on 7 July 2023.

Best regards,

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, PHLIPPINES)

Cebu Observatory

¤••••• Subject: Mars 6th July 2023

Received: 8 July 2023 at 08:00 JST

Very difficult to find Mars, now low down in the bright twilight, but it revealed some details in IR, nevertheless.
Possibly my last Mars image of the apparition,

https://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2022/230706/MLw06July23.png

Cheers

Martin R LEWIS (St. Albans, Hertfordshire, the UK)