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

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¤••••• Subject: Jupiter 2023-09-01 UT

Received: 2 September 18:54 JST

Jupiter images on 1 September 2023.

Best regards,

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, PHLIPPINES)

Cebu Observatory

¤••••• Subject: Jupiter 2023-08-30 UT

Received: 31 August 23:28 JST

Jupiter images on 30 August 2023.

Best regards,

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, PHLIPPINES)

Cebu Observatory

¤••••• Subject: Jupiter J230828 ishibashi, Flash of Jovian surface　

Received: 27 August 12:59 JST

Flash image with B-390 filter on AutoStakkert3

On 28 August 2023, at 16h45m57s UT, South is up.

Jupiter images on 28 August 2023.

Best regards,

Tsutomu ISHIBASHI (Kanagawa, JAPAN)

¤••••• Subject: Saturn 2023-08-26 UT

Received: 27 August 12:59 JST

Saturn images on 26 August 2023.

Best regards,

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, PHLIPPINES)

Cebu Observatory

¤••••• Subject: Jupiter 2023-08-26 UT

Received: 27 August 12:57 JST

Jupiter images on 26 August 2023.

Best regards,

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, PHLIPPINES)

Cebu Observatory

¤••••• Subject: Jupiter 2023-08-25 UT

Received: 26 August 14:22 JST

Jupiter images on 25 August 2023.

Best regards,

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, PHLIPPINES)

Cebu Observatory

¤••••• Subject: Saturn 2023-08-24 UT

Received: 26 August 01:14 JST

Saturn images on 24 August 2023.

Best regards,

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, PHLIPPINES)

Cebu Observatory

¤••••• Subject: Jupiter 2023-08-24 UT

Received: 25 August 19:40 JST

Jupiter images on 24 August 2023.

Best regards,

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, PHLIPPINES)

Cebu Observatory

¤••••• Subject: Jupiter 2023-08-23 UT

Received: 24 August 12:51 JST

Jupiter images on 23 August 2023.

Best regards,

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, PHLIPPINES)

Cebu Observatory

¤••••• Subject: Jupiter images with AstroQueyras 620 mm Cassegrain, August 12th 2023

Received: 23 August 20:52 JST

Hi all,

This follows the Saturn images from the same night. The excellent seeing kept on until sunrise.

Very fine details are recorded in IR in the northern hemisphere, as well as some structure inside BA.

About BA, its reddish inner ring, currently very faint in visible light, is clearly detected as a dark feature in UV. Only UV can do that!

Regards,

Christophe

Christophe PELLIER (Nantes, FRANCE)

Planetary astronomy and imaging

¤••••• Subject: Jupiter 2023-08-22 UT

Received: 23 August 13:12 JST

Jupiter images on 22 August 2023.

Best regards,

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, PHLIPPINES)

Cebu Observatory

¤••••• Subject: Saturn, 22nd August IR600

Received: 23 August 08:52 JST

Hi all, here's an image of Saturn from last night using a 600nm longpass filter under reasonably steady seeing with strong jetstream.

Tethys and its shadow can be seen in transit across the southern hemisphere.

13 recordings spanning 42 minutes were used to make this image.

best regards

Link:
http://www.acquerra.au/astro/gallery/saturn/index.live?dir=/saturn&image=20230822-121106

Anthony Wesley (QLD, AUSTRALIA)

¤••••• Subject: Saturn 2023-08-20 UT

Received: 21 August 21:14 JST

Saturn images on 20 August 2023.

Best regards,

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, PHLIPPINES)

Cebu Observatory

¤••••• Subject: Saturn, 19th August IR750

Received: 20 August 09:06 JST

Hi all, here's an image of Saturn from last night using a 750nm longpass filter.

Seeing was poor so no fine details can be seen. I combined 11 x 90s recordings over the space of 50 minutes.

Dione (left) and Tethys (right) can be seen. I've increased the brightness of the moons to make them more visible. WJ has done a good job of correcting them.

cheers, Anthony

Link:
http://www.acquerra.au/astro/gallery/saturn/index.live?dir=/saturn&image=20230819-122154

Anthony Wesley (QLD, AUSTRALIA)

¤••••• Subject: Jupiter 2023-08-18 UT

Received: 19 August 10:30 JST

Jupiter images on 18 August 2023.

Best regards,

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, PHLIPPINES)

Cebu Observatory

¤••••• Subject: Saturn, 16th August IR750

Received: 17 August 14:53 JST

Hi all, here's an image of Saturn from last night in poor/variable seeing.

Only 750nm longpass was usable. No exceptional features are visible on the disk or in the rings.

All the best

Link:
http://www.acquerra.au/astro/gallery/saturn/index.live?dir=/saturn&image=20230816-121500

Anthony Wesley (QLD, AUSTRALIA)

¤••••• Subject: Saturn images taken with the T620 of AstroQueyras observatory,

with spokes on the rings, 11 and 12 August 2023

Received: 16 August 19:11 JST

Hi all,

I'm back from my 2023 mission at the AstroQueyras observatory, and we have benefited from two good nights, one being incredible. Here is a selection of the best images taken from both nights. I have been observing at the T620 (F/15 Cassegrain) instead of the T500.

Anthony Wesley observed a spoke on ring B recently, and some have been caught as well here, with Ic and CH4 filters !

Many subtle details can be see on the animations. The animation technique is very powerful for Saturn, since the smallest details are often hard to confirm on a still image... Note some bright CH4 spots on the EZ, I didn't think it was possible to observe activity on that band...

The camera is used at prime focus without any barlow. Added to the altitude of the site which almost reaches 3000 meters, it makes UV imaging more easy. I am using now a quite "extreme" UV filter along with the usual Johnson U, the U340 from Asahi Spectra. I detect an evolution of the albedo of the planet with the 340 filter, where the EZ is darker, and the rest of the globe slightly brighter (this can be see on the HST images between the F395N and the F343M)

I will have more data on Jupiter.

Best wishes,

Christophe

Christophe PELLIER (Nantes, FRANCE)

Planetary astronomy and imaging

¤••••• Subject: Jupiter 2023-08-14 UT

Received: 15 August 18:22 JST

Jupiter images on 14 August 2023.

Best regards,

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, PHLIPPINES)

Cebu Observatory

¤••••• Subject: Venus 2023-08-04 UT

Received: 12 August 11:16 JST

Venus images on 4 August 2023.

Best regards,

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, PHLIPPINES)

Cebu Observatory

¤••••• Subject: Jupiter 2023-08-10 UT

Received: 12 August 11:10 JST

Jupiter images on 10 August 2023.

Best regards,

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, PHLIPPINES)

Cebu Observatory

¤••••• Subject: Saturn, August 10 RGB

Received: 11 August 08:44 JST

Hi all, here's a colour image of Saturn from last night.

Seeing was steady but with a lot of jetstream blurring. 40 minutes of data was derotated in Winjupos.

best regards
Anthony

Link:
http://www.acquerra.au/astro/gallery/saturn/index.live?dir=/saturn&image=20230810-154124

Anthony Wesley (QLD, AUSTRALIA)

¤••••• Subject: Jupiter 2023-08-07 UT

Received: 10 August 22:02 JST

Jupiter images on 7 August 2023.

Best regards,

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, PHLIPPINES)

Cebu Observatory

¤••••• Subject: Jupiter 2023-08-06 UT

Received: 10 August 21:59 JST

Jupiter images on 6 August 2023.

Best regards,

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, PHLIPPINES)

Cebu Observatory

¤••••• Subject: Saturn, 9th August R channel

Received:10 August 09:11 JST

Hi all, here's an image of Saturn from last night through an Astrodon R filter.

I was trying to catch Mimas in transit however the seeing was just not good enough to see it.

I recorded and derotated 37 minutes of data to get this result.

cheers, Anthony

Link:
http://www.acquerra.au/astro/gallery/saturn/index.live?dir=/saturn&image=20230809-141924

Anthony Wesley (QLD, AUSTRALIA)

¤••••• Subject: Saturn 2023-08-04 UT

Received:6 August 14:00 JST

Saturn images on 4 August 2023.

Best regards,

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, PHLIPPINES)

Cebu Observatory

¤••••• Subject: Jupiter 2023-08-05 UT

Received: 6 August 13:58 JST

Jupiter images on 5 August 2023.

Best regards,

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, PHLIPPINES)

Cebu Observatory

¤••••• Subject: Saturn and Tethys, IR750

Received: 6 August 2023 at 10:53 JST

Hi all, here's an image of Saturn from last night through a 750nm longpass filter showing a transit of Tethys. Tethys can be seen at lower right but its shadow is cast below and right of the moon and is on the limb, resulting in some artifacting when WJ derotates it.

The 55 degree south storm can be seen down near the south pole. I had to start early to catch both of these in the same image, Saturn was still quite low and the seeing was not great.

Link:
http://www.acquerra.au/astro/gallery/saturn/index.live?dir=/saturn&image=20230805-130230

best regards

Anthony Wesley (QLD, AUSTRALIA)

¤••••• Subject: Mars: July 30, 2023

Received: 6 August 2023 at 05:40 JST

Hi,

I have attached my latest image of Mars July 30, 2023 at 23:30 UT.

Maybe this would be my last image of the 2022 apparition...

https://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2022/230730/FMl30July23.png

Best,

Frank J MELILLO (Holtsville, NY)

¤••••• Subject: Jupiter 2023-08-04 UT

Received: 5 August 14:41 JST

Jupiter images on 4 August 2023.

Best regards,

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, PHLIPPINES)

Cebu Observatory

¤••••• Subject: Saturn, 4th August RGB

Received: 5 August 07:37 JST

Hi all, here's an image of Saturn from last night in good seeing.

Not a lot of action can be seen on the planet in this image however there is a large horizontal structure evident in the southern hemisphere at mid latitudes.

3 x 13 images were derotated to make this result spanning 54 minutes.

Link:
http://www.acquerra.au/astro/gallery/saturn/index.live?dir=/saturn&image=20230804-142554

best regards

Anthony Wesley (QLD, AUSTRALIA)

¤••••• Subject: Jupiter 2023-08-03 UT

Received: 4 August 16:21 JST

Jupiter images on 3 August 2023.

Best regards,

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, PHLIPPINES)

Cebu Observatory

¤••••• Subject: Saturn, 3rd August RGB +Tethys transit + Spoke

Received: 4 August 08:48 JST

Hi all, some good seeing for a couple of hours last night allowed me to capture a colour image of Saturn. By a stroke of luck Tethys was in transit during this period and also a prominent spoke in the B ring came into view near the end of the session. See attached image and animation.

best regards

Links:

RGB