SolarPlanetary LtE Now for
CMO/ISMO #29 (CMO #403)
Not every email is necessarily
cited in the PDFfs CMO
LtE
To see the preceding ones, click
The latest is at the top
¤·····Subject: Jupiter
Received;
Hi
Guys here are some Jupiters from the 29th. it was nice to have a clear night for a GRS transit. The total WJ de-rotate was 15 mins
for the
The
Luminance channels comprising the red and green channels are a little less than
this as they do not have the blue image time on the end of the RGB RGB RGB strings or the RGB RGB string of the center image. The luminance was not added
during the RGB derotate phase so is offset by a
minute to the RGB.
Timing
is dominated by the luminance.
Best wishes
Dave TYLER (Bucks,
the
www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE
¤·····Subject: Jupiter
Received;
Images
of Jupiter on
Tomio@AKUTSU (Cebu,
the PHILIPPINES)
¤·····Subject: Jupiter 2012 September 22
(further)
Received;
A later image, taken by a shorter sequence of RGRBR (which
has separated the colours on Ganymede). Total 6500 frames.
David ARDITTI (Middlesex, the
¤·····Subject: Jupiter 2012 September 22
Received;
Here's some
images from the 22nd, poor seeing as usual. Ganymede is just coming out of
occultation.
The
03:56.8 image is made from a single RGB set. A hint of
detail is visible on Ganymede.
The
03:53.9 image is a merger of three RGB sets using WinJUPOS (technique suggested by Dave T). These cover
I also
provide the three red images in a separate file. They were produced by 150%
drizzle in Astrostakkert 2.
David ARDITTI (Middlesex, the
¤·····Subject: Jupiter
Received;
Hi Guys Here are a couple of images from the 25th . The EZ is
now looking similar to how it was in 2006, show here
in an image taken during one of our
Best
wishes
Dave TYLER (Bucks,
the
www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE
¤·····Subject: RE: CMO #402 uploaded
Received;
Hello Masami:
Thank you for sending me CMO 402. I have read several past issues
of the CMO and am impressed with the amount of valuable information they
contain. Please keep up the good work.
Richard SCHMUDE (GA, the
¤·····Subject: BAA Mars Section news
Received;
2012 September 22nd
Dear Mars observer:
This is just to let you
know that we have recently uploaded to our website the pdf
file versions of the final BAA Mars reports on the 2007-08 apparition, which
are appearing in the 2012 August and October numbers of the BAA Journal. Visit www.britastro.org/mars
for full details.
The 2007-08 apparition was a very complex one on account of the early
encircling dust storm and the many changes in the albedo
markings. The seasonally unusually early visibility of the Northern polar cap
was a striking feature of the images from mid-2007; the recession rate of the
cap appeared normal, and the seasonal separation of Novus
Mons from the SPC was also typical. The report is in
two parts. I: surface features and dust activity; II: white clouds (including
equatorial cloud belt and orographics).
The BAA Mars Section
website, maintained by Bob Marriott, also contains pdfs
of all our reports on the Red Planet since 1995 as well as a list of all the
previous ones. The site also contains the latest observing programme and a
selection of useful maps. We hope you will pay it a visit.
The Director is working
hard to bring the current reports up to date. The forthcoming 2010 final report
will contain a gallery of observers' photographs (as did that for 2003) and if
you have not sent me a recent photo please feel free to do so, preferably taken
together with your favourite telescope.
The 2012 apparition has
been a very successful one too, and further details about the observations made
will feature in later issues of the BAA Journal.
With best wishes
Richard McKIM (Director of the BAA
Mars Section, the
¤·····Subject:
Jupiter images,
Received;
Hi all,
Here is my last set of images - variable good seeing.
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/J2012_09_19-CPE
Of note are two big convective cells
in the SEB next to the GRS...
Best wishes,
Christophe PELLIER (
¤·····Subject:
Bates image of Uranus passing 44 Piscium
Received;
Gentlemen:
I had the distinct pleasure of viewing and photographing the planet Uranus as
it passed near the star 44 Piscium last night. The
enclosed image data is as follows:
Don R. Bates
Uranus and 44 Piscium
250mm L at f/25
Philips ToUcam Pro
1000 images combined in Registax
6
Final processing in Adobe Photoshop
Clear skies, temp around 72 deg F.
High Humidity
Hungry mosquitoes
In the eyepiece at high magnification, both the planet
and the star were visible. Uranus showed a distinctive, grey-green disc. 44 Piscium appeared orange-red, with distinct diffraction
rings during periods of steady seeing. The pair appeared like a strange double
star: similar to a perfectly round, bright planetary nebula very close to a
bright star. Extremely unique sight in the telescope.
I cannot recall seeing anything quite like it before. The planet was at the
very lower edge of brightness for this imaging system.
Good observing and good health to all. My congratulations, Richard, on the recent Olympic Games in
Keep looking up,
Don R. BATES (Near
Cypress Creek Station
¤·····Subject: Jupiter
Received;
Hi Guys Chilly
night 6C good trans' poor to fair seeing a bit jittery
and soft, with the GRS going off. Nice EZ detail.
Best
wishes
Dave TYLER (Bucks,
the
www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE
¤·····Subject: Mars Conference
reflections
Received;
Hi, all,
Just thought Ifd remind you that
wefre now at 103 years since Antoniadifs great views
of Mars with the Meudon refractor, and that itfs been
three years already since our Mars conference at Paris Observatory and Meudon.
Richard—our attempts to float
gMen of Marsh have foundered, Ifm afraid, on attempts to make it appeal to an
academic audience we never intended. Ifd still like to do something—one
thought (though it cannot be actualized anytime soon because of other
commitments) would be to do a revision of gPlanet Marsh (1996), which U of
Arizona Press keeps asking me for, as a collaborative project. We could
add lots of gMen of Marsh material to the historical chapters, and possibly
reorganize the chapters on the spacecraft eras with updates on what we know
about Martian meteorology (the dust storms especially) and geology from an
amateur scientistfs (not specialistfs) perspective. It would be
interesting to do if only because it would provide me (us) a forum in which to
absorb and organize the vast amount of information forthcoming now about Mars
from Curiosity. Best,
Bill SHEEHAN (
¤·····Subject: Jupiter
Received;
Another beautiful weekend
at the Farm. Steph is here with her College friends
leaving me to my telescopes.
Seeing was Fair to Good. This is one of the last
images of Jupiter before I packed up this morning. Chilly
outside at ~ 62 degrees. Lots of dew.
best,
Jim PHILLIPS@(Charleston,
SC)
¤·····Subject: solar images 6/7
Sept-2012
Received;
Hi guys here are few images from 6-7 Sept. A
faint *flying kite" prom shown over two days, and some flare activity in ar 11562. Also quite a large " rainshower" prom.
Best wishes
Dave TYLER (Bucks,
the
www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE
¤·····Subject:
Jupiter 2012 September 19 (more)
Received;
Here's the processings of all my data from the 19th. Conditions, or
the telescope, improved with time, as can be seen.
David ARDITTI (Middlesex, the
¤·····Subject: Jupiter
images,
Received;
Hi all,
Here are some Jupiter images taken under a seeing close to perfection :
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/J2012_09_16a-CPE
(LRGB,
R, B)
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/J2012_09_16b-CPE
(R+IR,
IR, CH4, UV, Violet)
Note how dark is Io in
ultraviolet !
Grischa Hahn gave the trick to avoid limb artefact
when doing video
derotation
: when measuring the reference image, under "adjustment"
choose an "LD-value" inferior to 1 :)
Best wishes,
Christophe PELLIER (
¤·····Subject:
Jupiter images on
Received;
Images of Jupiter on 20
September.
Tomio@AKUTSU (Cebu, the PHILIPPINES)
¤·····Subject:
solar images
Received;
Hi guys here are two images
of the massive AR 11564, and a remnant of the previous day's CME
Best
wishes
Dave TYLER (Bucks,
the
www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE
¤·····Subject:
2012 astro-photos
Received;
Hello all,
Some other pics you may not have seen.
Regards
Mike
RUSSELL (Bucks, the
¤·····Subject:
RE: SOLAR IMAGES
Received;
Hi Dave
Stunning photos and I absolutely
love the new website.
I have modified my own
site by using a photobucket site to house my GIF
movie files so I am no longer restricted to 2mb file limit and shrinking image
scale to suit, this also reduces the band with that my site uses as it was
getting very big. It is a big job redoing all my old movies but I am on with it
bit by bit.
I thought I would break
away from just imaging in H-alpha and do some experimentation to test WL for
solar animation purposes - I never had much success with it before? I wanted
to pull out granulation and for that I went for at least 3m of focal
length. My goal was to get the granulation boiling and if possible get
plasma flowing down the penumbra into the core of the sunspot. For this I
really need top notch grade 1 seeing for over an hour - a big ask on my wish
list but here is a look at my system capability in grade 2 to grade 3 seeing -I
used TOA130, Lunt Herschel wedge two 2 x Barlows and a 7A Ha filter. I refocused every 5 minutes and
shot 300 frames every minute but only processed and animated every two minutes.
For some reason Registax 5 gave me best image
processing results in WL.
Below are my first
results on AR1569 at 4m focal length,
Regards
Andrew DEVEY (
¤·····Subject:
SOLAR IMAGES
Received;
Hi Guys these images
complete the processed data from the 4th , There is a further image of the CME
building from that day, + two AR's and a prominence.
Best
wishes
Dave TYLER (Bucks,
the
www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE
¤·····Subject:
Jupiter 2012 September 19
Received;
These
were taken in pretty poor seeing. R,G,B are 90s runs.
I also have some IR shots, but haven't dealt with them yet.
Interesting wave in the NEB(S) which seems to be new, and dark spot
near GRS & BA.
David
ARDITTI (Middlesex,
the
¤·····Subject:Jupiter 2012.09.17 in CH4
from Pic du Midi
Received;
Dears,
Very nice detailed image of Jupiter in methane absorption band on
Nice view of oval BA rising and passing south of GRS, with brighter zones
inside both - no traces of impact visible here (approximately at CM).
Images (c) S2P/IMCCE/OMP/F.Colas/M.Delcroix - reserved usage by F.Colas for scientific publication
http://www.astrosurf.com/delcroix/images/planches/j20120917c-02h21.3UT-PIC.jpg
Sincerely,
Marc DELCROIX (
¤·····Subject:
Jupiter 2012.09.15 in CH4 from Pic du Midi
Received;
Dears,
Jupiter in methane absorption band on
The second image is the best, showing a nice view of oval BA setting and passing
south of GRS.
Images (c)
S2P/IMCCE/OMP/F.Colas/M.Delcroix - reserved usage by F.Colas
for scientific publication
Non je n'y suis pas retourné,
mais j'ai récupéré les acquistions faites par François Colas sur
place et ai eu la chance de
pouvoir les traiter.
http://www.astrosurf.com/delcroix/images/planches/j20120915c-02h48.1UT-PIC.jpg
http://www.astrosurf.com/delcroix/images/planches/j20120915c-04h24.4UT-PIC.jpg
Sincerely,
Marc DELCROIX (
¤·····Subject:
Jupiter images on
Received;
Images of Jupiter on 16
September.
Tomio@AKUTSU (Cebu, the PHILIPPINES)
¤·····Subject:
Jupiter
Received;
Hi Guys here is a shot
from the 15th taken in fair seeing for red, but well shabby for green and blue
as you can see. The derotated 54000 frames
taken during the 16 minute three RGB capture run, allowed a fair bit of grief free sharpening.
Best wishes
Dave TYLER (Bucks, the
www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE
¤·····Subject:
Jupiter images - 14 sept 2012
Received;
Hi all,
Seeing was still excellent at the end of the night after Uranus imaging. This is my best B image of Jupiter ever,
and the first time that my CH4 and UV images (binned 2x)
bear a 200% enlargement.
The colours of the planet are wonderful this year...
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/J2012_09_14a-CPE
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/J2012_09_14b-CPE
Best wishes,
Christophe PELLIER (
¤·····Subject:
Jupiter images on
Received;
Images of Jupiter on 15
September.
Tomio@AKUTSU (Cebu, the PHILIPPINES)
¤·····Subject:
Uranus IR image with a belt,
Received;
Hi all,
Seeing was rock steady
on friday morning and this was the good occasion to
try to record details on Uranus in near infrared, although I was not sure it
was possible with a 10"...
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/U2012_09_13-14_CPE
This is done with the Baader IR685 that has allowed a
few amateurs already to record details on the globe. Collimation set up
directly on the camera, and the ser file recorded without limit. The image is a
massive stack of 13000 raw frames (250 ms - 4 fps).
A french amateur, Flavius Isac,
has recorded the belt (and the brightened pole) as well at the same moment with
also a 10" telescope and the same filter :
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e245/fisac/Astro/uranus_20120914_IR.jpg
Best wishes,
Christophe PELLIER (
¤·····Subject:
Jupiter
Received;
Hi Guys This is the last of the processing of the data gathered
on the 12th. It includes the component monos of the RGB's ,
and the last of the RGBs.
Just for info,
each of the Red's Green's and Blues contain three further AVIs, the
results of which are not shown here.
Best wishes
Dave TYLER (Bucks, the
www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE
¤·····Subject:
Jupiter 2012 September 12
Received;
Here are my first Jupiter
images of this apparition. They were taken 3 hours before culmination in poorish seeing, but I couldn't stay up any longer.
They are also the first
planetary images I have processed using my new iMac at the final Photoshop
stage (earlier stages done on a MacBook running
Windows Vista).
You might also like to
look at my re-vamped astronomy website, now entirely separated from my music
website, staglaneobservatory.co.uk.
I don't have most of my image archive on there yet, but it is gradually going
up, starting with Jupiter and Saturn.
David ARDITTI (Middlesex,
the UK)
¤·····Subject:
Jupiter
Received;
Hi Guys a slightly
later image from the data gathered on the 12th
Best wishes
Dave TYLER (Bucks, the
www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE
¤·····Subject:
Jupiter
Received;
Hi Guys The current region of interest was on view, and in
decent seeing too.
Best wishes
Dave TYLER (Bucks, the
www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE
¤·····Subject: Jupiter
Received;
Hi Guys just to
complete the data set from the 8th here are the LRGB component monos. The Greens and reds were later derotated
and combined and added to the derotated RGB as a
luminance which had no affect on the colour at all.
Best
wishes
Dave TYLER (Bucks, the
www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE
¤·····Subject:
solar images
Received;
Hi Guys the Active
Regions were quite active this morning, with rivulet's
of flares meandering among the spots. Purposely processed
dark to give detail in the overly bright regions.
Best wishes
Dave TYLER (Bucks, the
www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE
¤·····Subject:
Jupiter images
Received;
Hi Guys Here are a
few from the 8th Sept , we have suffered from very clear
skies with mostly very soft fuzzy seeing . This morning was a little
better
Best wishes
Dave TYLER (Bucks, the
www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE
¤·····Subject:
Jupiter 2012 09 06,08
Received;
Images of Jupiter on 6,
8 September.
Tomio@AKUTSU (Cebu, the PHILIPPINES)
¤·····Subject:
Jupiter 2012.09.08
Received;
Under improving seeing
last morning, the best image i got was in IR with for
the first time a long-pass 685nm (Jupiter is approximatively
twice as luminous with this filter as with my 742nm), and a video derotation under winjupos:
http://www.astrosurf.com/delcroix/images/jupiter_20120809_IR.jpg
The
whole images with a somehow disappointing LRGB (given the IR image), and as
always an interesting aspect for the methane image, with a few white spots
resolved in this wavelength:
http://astrosurf.com/delcroix/images/planches/j20120908-MDe.jpg
Sincerely,
Marc DELCROIX (
¤·····Subject:
Venus images
Received;
Hi all,
Some images taken yesterday under poor seing.
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/V2012_09_06-CPE
Still some details are caught in visible light - My RGB's are now never
white, every time yellowish with bluish polar cusps.
Best wishes,
Christophe PELLIER (
¤·····Subject:
Luigi Prestinenza
Received;
Caro Emilio e Mario
penso che voi abbiate o possiate
avere un contatto
diretto con la
famiglia di Luigi Prestinenza.
Chi ha potuto incontrarlo,
come me, ha avuto la fortuna di misurarne la
passione e la dedizione che ha sempre messo
al servizio di tutti gli
astrofili. Mi preme tuttavia far giungere alla famiglia le piu' sentite
condoglianze non solo da parte mia,ma
anche da parte di una
comunità
piu' ampia di osservatori e studiosi di Marte,
che in queste ore hanno
appreso la sua scomparsa.
In particolare, Richard Mc Kim (British Astronomical Associaltion),
Masatsugu Minami (Oriental Astronomical Association),
William Sheehan
(Lowell Observatory, autore di
varie opere sulla storia
delle
osservazioni
che hanno scambiato con lui, sempre disponibile e generoso nei contatti
umani e nell'approccio all'astronomia. Desiderano quindi associarsi al
suo ricordo, perchè i suoi
cari sappiano quanto le sue qualità e
conoscenze fossero apprezzate anche al di fuori delle
nostre frontiere.
Paolo
----------------------------------------------------------------
Paolo TANGA
Astronome adjoint
Observatoire de la
Bv de l'Observatoire - BP
4229 Fax
+33(0)492003121
06304 Nice Cedex 4 - France
http://www.oca.eu/tanga
----------------------------------------------------------------
¤·····Subject:
FW: Luigi Prestinenza
Received;
Dear Paolo,
I am very sad to hear of Luigi Prestinenza's
death. We corresponded on a
regular basis for a number of years, he was always
very kind, very
enthusiastic, and very encouraging to Mars observers like myself. We
exchanged books, and shared many interests. He invited me to visit him in
manage to do it. I gathered that he must have lived with his sister; he
did
not seem well in the last few years, and our communications became fewer and
farther between.
As I recall, his first passion may have been football.
Thanks for conveying to me the sad news; I shall lift a glass of
Sicilian
wine in his memory, and publish a notice of his passing in the CMO/ISMO.
Ciao, Bill
>----------------------------------------------------------------
>Dear Bill
>
>I remember having mentioned with you Luigi Prestinenza
(whom you never
>met, if I remember well), the Italian journalist in Sicily, observer of
>Mars since his youth and expert of history of its observation.
>
>Unfortunately, he passed away for the consequences of a long-term
>illness, on September 4th.
>In recent years he was still very active in promoting and supporting
>amateur astronomy in
>When he started in astronomy, he was lucky enough to meet Italian Mars
>observers as Glauco de Mottoni
and Guido Ruggieri.
>http://uai.it/web/guest/uainews/journal_content/56/10100/292166
>Ciao
>Paolo
>----------------------------------------------------------------
>Paolo Tanga
Astronome adjoint
>Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur
Tel +33(0)492003042
>Bv de l'Observatoire -
BP 4229 Fax
+33(0)492003121
>06304 Nice Cedex 4 - France http://www.oca.eu/tanga
>----------------------------------------------------------------
Bill SHEEHAN (Willmar, MN)
¤·····Subject:
Received;
Hi Guys
I thought I would share
this one with you taken
Used
SM90DS at 1.6m focal length, DMK21 mono webcam.
Huge
prominence lift off movie
Hope you like it
Regards
Andrew DEVEY (
¤·····Subject:
Solar images
Received;
4 September 2012 at 07:29 JST
Hi Guys quite a bit of
activity on this day = more pictures = more processing = later pictures =
filled up drives = clear out and managing !
I used the D' Stack set
up for some of these later shots, as the proms were sitting over the limb a bit . The DS seems to captures these "as single"
shot better .
Best
wishes
Dave TYLER (Bucks, the
www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE
¤·····Subject:
Jupiter on 1 September
Received;
Images of Jupiter on 1
September.
Tomio@AKUTSU (Cebu, the PHILIPPINES)
¤·····Subject:
solar images 30th-August-2012
Received;
Hi Guys
here are a couple of images from the 30th of what was later
designated AR11563 . The first image from 13:19ut
shows a flare in progress and another, ( composite image)
28 minutes later showing development into a loop . Note also the large
whale-shaped filament.
Best
wishes
Dave TYLER (Bucks, the
www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE
¤·····Subject:
Jupiter on 29 August
Received;
Images of Jupiter on 29
August.
Tomio@AKUTSU (Cebu, the PHILIPPINES)
Back to the CMO/ISMO Façade / CMO Home Page