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¤·····Subject: Solar Images 27-Jan-2013

Received; 29 January 2013 at 10:19 JST

 

Hi Guys this was our first sunshine for nearly 3 weeks.  It was good to get out a do some imaging and processing. It is up to a massive 20degs now and climbing about 2 degrees per week, things are looking up.

 

DTy_Sun2013Jan27_1138_dbvt_ar1662.jpg
 

DTy_Sun2013Jan27_1148_dbvt_Limbcompmono.jpg
 


DTy_Sun2013Jan27_1153_dbvt_Limb.jpg
Best wishes

 

Dave TYLER (Bucks, the UK)

 www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE

 

 

¤·····Subject: Re: Happy Birthday

Received; 29 January 2013 at 02:54 JST

 

Dear Masatsugu and Masami,
Thank you for the birthday greetings and for the kind words!
Best,


Don PARKER (Coral Gables, FL)

 

Dear Don.jpg--------------------------------------------------------------

Subject: Happy Birthday
Sent: Mon, January 28, 2013 6:23:35 AM

Dear Don PARKER, one of the most impressive Mars observers on the Earth,
Wishing you a Happy Birthday! on 28 January 2013,
we hope you will have many more happy years.

With best wishes


Masatsugu MINAMI, ISMO
and Masami MURAKAMI, ISMO and OAA Mars Section
Japan

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¤·····Subject: Re: CMO/ISMO 406/32 uploaded /email address and location change.

Received; 26 January 2013 at 16:57 JST

 

Hi,
Thanks for sending the report,
Please do take note of my new email address,

frewi80@hotmail.com


I will be moving to a new location, but will be active as soon as my setup is complete in a few months.

 

Freddy WILLEMS  (Waipahu, Hawaii)

 

 

¤·····Subject: CMO 406

Received; 26 January 2013 at 01:16 JST

 

Dear Masatsugu,

  I have downloaded the latest CMO, with the article I wrote; it looks good—the section on Sithonius Lacus is now corrected.  This gives us a new project: to try to examine what might have been happening at Sithonius Lacus when that observation was made. 

   Best wishes,

 

Bill SHEEHAN  (Willmar, MN)

 

 

¤·····Subject: Aurora

Received; 22 January 2013 at 09:09 JST

 

Here is another full size aurora from Lapland this week

004_JamieCooper.jpg
Kind regards

 

Jamie COOPER (Northampton, the UK)

 

www.jamiecooperphotography.co.uk

 

 

¤·····Subject: Jupiter 2013/01/10-12 strip maps

Received; 22 January 2013 at 05:47 JST

 

Hello, I have created hi-res maps from my images during 10-12 Jan. at CM2 and CM3. I hope they will help your work.

JupiterStripCM2hr_201301_10-12_MKardasis.jpg
 

JupiterStripCM3hr_201301_10-12_MKardasis.jpg
 

JupiterStripCM2_SN_201301_10-12_MKardasis.jpg
 

JupiterStripCM3_SN_201301_10-12_MKardasis.jpg
 

JupiterStripCM2_SS_201301_10-12_MKardasis.jpg
 

JupiterStripCM3_SS_201301_10-12_MKardasis.jpg
 


Manos KARDASIS  (Glyfada-Athens, GREECE)

 

 

¤·····Subject: RE: essay for CMO and ISMO

Received; 21 January 2013 at 01:33 JST

 

Dear Masatsugu,
  I was in at my office--returning home, I checked the draft of that article; it can be corrected if Tithonius Lacus is changed to Sithonius Lacus, and then uf the "also" referring to Saheki's observation is deleted.  Thus the sentence should read: c an intense point of light suddenly appear near Sithonius Lacus; it scintillated like a star and disappeared after five minutes; a similar observation, at Tithonius Lacus, was reported by Tsuneo Saheki on Dec. 8, 1951," etc., etc.

   Perhaps Reiichi Konnai would be so kind as to investigate and write something about Sithonius Lacus--is this also an area of plagioclase and calcium-rich pyroxene, as the other two areas (Edom and Tithonius Lacus) seem to be?

   I sent Dale Cruikshank the draft of the article, and he responded with some interesting reminiscences about the spectral studies of Mars vs. minerals he and Alan Binder carried out as G. P. Kuiper's grad students in the 1960s.  Perhaps this is something to write up in another article.

   Best wishes,

 

Bill SHEEHAN  (Willmar, MN)

 

 

¤·····Subject: RE: essay for CMO and ISMO

Received; 21 January 2013 at 01:02 JST

 

Dear Masatsugu,
   It is my mistake--Sithonius Lacus was a site I did not know about.   I think that de Vaucouleurs meant Saheki's observation as he refers to a 5" disk.  The fact he received no response from Saheki (if he wrote to him indeed)  I cannot explain. Saheki seems to have known French, as he did have Flammarion's La Planete Mars as we saw during our visit in 2004.

Perhaps we need to look into what the mineralogy of Sithonius Lacus is now.  This will be a good project for our readers. 

Pardon my short response--I am temporarily rather disabled from surgery on my foot.
   Best,

 

Bill SHEEHAN  (Willmar, MN)

 

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Jupiter images 16 january 2013

Received; 21 January 2013 at 00:57 JST

CPl_J2013_01_16.jpg

Hi guys,
Some images taken last wednesday, with the NNTZ LRS. The seeing was surprisingly good during the first hours. Due to the presence of the easterlies at ground level and a relatively strong jetstream, it should have been poor...

http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/J2013_01_16-CPE

Best wishes,

 

Christophe PELLIER (Nantes, FRANCE)

 

 

¤·····Subject: Aurora from last night

Received; 20 January 2013 at 23:56 JST

 

003_JamieCooper.jpg

Link here:

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamie_cooper_pics/8398737932/sizes/l/in/photostream/

 

cheers

 

 

Jamie COOPER (Northampton, the UK)

 

www.jamiecooperphotography.co.uk

 

 

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Moon, 2012 December 29

Received; 20 January 2013 at 01:41 JST

 

DAr_Luner02.jpg

I though I'd use a different method for imaging the Moon on this occasion. Attaching my Lumenera SkyNYX 2-0 camera (now superseded on C-14 for planetary duties) to an 80mm f7.5 ED refractor at prime focus, I videoed the gibbous Moon at 66fps in four sections through a deep red filter (Baader "30nm H alpha"), stacked the videos, enlarging them in the process using 1.5x drizzle in Autostakkert, sharpened them slightly in Registax, and combined the mosaic on the Mac using the very reasonable PanoEdit software (10 quid).

 

So here's a mono 16-day old Moon. Best viewed full size.

 

David ARDITTI  (Middlesex, the UK)

http://www.staglaneobservatory.co.uk

HA8 5LW

 

 

¤·····Subject: Re: Mars essay

Received; 19 January 2013 at 03:30 JST

 

Dear Masatsugu et al.,
   I sent a version of my essay to my good friend Dale Cruikshank, and he responded as follows; he also sent some interesting essays from 1964 and 1966 which I've attached.
1964Mars_Rocks_DPC_ABB_CommLPL.pdf

1966Mars_surface_Icarus.pdf

 

>-----Original Message-----
From: Cruikshank, Dale P. (ARC-SSA) [mailto:dale.p.cruikshank@nasa.gov]
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 5:05 PM
To: Sheehan, William P (DHS)
Subject: RE: Mars essay

Hi Bill, thanks very much for your Mars essay--I read it with both nostalgia and close interest, and the limonite issue brought back memories of some work that Al Binder and I did while we were grad students in Kuiper's lab in the 1960s.  I'll attach the two papers we wrote about our measurements of red-stained rocks in the Sonoran desert in which Tucson is embedded, and comparisons with our measurements of the near-infrared reflectivity of Mars.  As we point out limonite is only one of several iron-oxide minerals, and indeed the Mars surface seems to have a number of these, as well as some others.

I'm sitting in a Pluto mission meeting in Boulder just now, listening to details of the spacecraft performance and planning exercises for the flyby in July 2015.

Best regards,
Dale

Dr. Dale P. Cruikshank
Research Scientist
NASA Ames Research Center
MS 245-6
Moffett Field, CA 94035  USA
________________________________________

Bill SHEEHAN  (Willmar, MN)

 

 

¤·····Subject: Solar Storm sparks huge aurora

Received; 18 January 2013 at 18:29 JST

 

I could not have timed my trip better !

 

http://earthsky.org/space/large-sunspot-region-now-facing-earth-might-produce-x-flares-today

 

002_JamieCooper.jpg

We had a magnificent display in northern Lapland last night ( 17 Jan), slightly obscured by cloud here but still amazing to witness !

 

cheers

 

Jamie COOPER (Northampton, the UK)

 

www.jamiecooperphotography.co.uk

 

 

 

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Jupiter 2013 January 15

Received; 18 January 2013 at 09:02 JST

 

I had a lateish clearance and could not get the images until a couple of hours after culmination. Seeing was very variable, with videos taken back-to-back having very different quality levels.

DAr_J_15Jan13.jpg
The sequence taken was RGBI,RGBI,RGBI, all 1-minute videos. The RGB image shows the colours more truly, but the L(I)RGB shows sharper detail.

 

David ARDITTI  (Middlesex, the UK)

http://www.staglaneobservatory.co.uk

HA8 5LW

 

 

¤·····Subject: Mars essay

Received; 17 January 2013 at 07:12 JST

 

Dear Masatsugu,

   Herefs another essay.  It may be too long, in which case you can cut it in half like an earthworm and it may even grow two heads.

   I will send it to Christophe and Reiichi as well.

   Sorry to hear of your continuing health problems.  I am having a few procedures done here too; tomorrow I have pins put in two toes I damaged cross-country skiing with bad equipment two years ago, and have decided on the ablation surgery for A-fib which will be performed in February.  I am trying to get well in advance of my May trip to Flagstaff, where I hope to do some climbing of cinder cones, meteor craters, and the San Francisco Peaks.

   Kind regards,

 

Bill SHEEHAN  (Willmar, MN)

 

 

¤·····Subject: RE: Active Region 1654 January 15th 2013

Received; 17 January 2013 at 00:14 JST

 

Hi Deirdre,

That is a beautiful sketch of a very active region.

I got it on a few occasions the 8th January when it first appeared on the NE limb, the 11 January movie is only half of it and on the 12 January - the universal times are shown in the GIF file names, please download to watch the movies, I also got 3 hours on the 13 January but seeing was so poor I never finished the movie.

2013-01-08--10-28-to-11-28UTAAc.gif
8 January, 10:28~11:28 UT

2013-01-11-at-10-06-to-12-22UTac.gif
11 January, 10:06~12:22 UT

2013-01-12-at-10-40-to-13-38UTac2.gif
12 January, 10:40~13:38

Regards

Andrew DEVEY  (West Yorkshire, the UK)

The solar explorer

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: RE: Active Region 1654 January 15th 2013

Received; 16 January 2013 at 23:15 JST

 

Excellent sketch Deidre!  I didn't image AR1654 on the 15th but I did capture it on the 13th with a Coronado 90, and Luntanado 100 in Ha, as well as in whilte light with 80mm and 127 mm APO's.  AR1654 looked a tad different on the day I captured it but you can definitely tell which one it is :)   The suite of images is attached along with some full disks from that day to add some perspective. 

JLf_HA0004-13-01-13-17-47-05Rcr.jpg
13 January, 17:47 UT

JLf_13-01-13_01.jpg
13 January, 17:15 UT

JLf_13-01-13_02.jpg
 


13 January, 19:34 UT

JLf_13-01-13_03.jpg
13 January, 18:35 / 18:48 UT

Best Regards!!

 

Jim LAFFERTY (Redlands, CA)
http://scopetrader.com/jimlafferty/

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Active Region 1654 January 15th 2013

Received; 16 January 2013 at 19:30 JST

 

Hi there everyone - did anyone image this AR ?

AR 1654 Jan 15th 2013 Sketch.jpg
Jan 15th Active Region 1654 - PST 40 h alpha Sketch / 8 mm eyepiece / 50 X - up scaled by eye. 10:42 UT - 11:28 UT Pastel , Conte on Black Paper This region was very complex indeed. My first view of it was yesterday morning. OH boy how to sketch it. ? I tried the binoviewers but they gave too much information to my eyes for the time I had available.  So I went back to the 8mm set up and settled down for a sketch. The sun had some interference from chimneys from time to time but the view was awesome. Indeed the limb of the sun was full of proms of all sizes while filaments wriggled over the surface like snakes on sand. There were no bright bursts from the active region as I sketched. Long areas of plage were flanked by some leaping dark rope like filaments these were flanked closely in parts by fibrils. The entire AR was solar eye candy. The sun and its massive action was then masked by high cirrus clouds so no chance of a white light sketch.

Best and happy new year

Deirdre KELLEGHAN (Co Wicklow, Ireland)

 

 

¤·····Subject: Aurora from Lapland

Received; 16 January 2013 at 19:24 JST

 

001_JamieCooper.jpg

I am photographing the Aurora this week in northern Finland.

 

Here is a low res taster ..more to come when I return home

 

cheers

 

 

Jamie COOPER (Northampton, the UK)

 

www.jamiecooperphotography.co.uk

 

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Solar images 9-Jan-2013

Received; 16 January 2013 at 18:33 JST

Bernards way Flackwell Heath 2 14-Jan-2013.jpg

Hi guys here are a couple of low power solar images from the 9th,

plus one of the current scene on the street where I live YUK !   

 

Quite a bit of solar activity just now, but with the low alt at the moment I canft do it justice. Good to see though at all this time of year at 51north.

 

 

 

 

 

DTy_Sun2013jan09_1310.jpg
 


 

DTy_Sun2013jan09_1306.jpg
 


Best wishes

 

Dave TYLER (Bucks, the UK)

 www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Two solar images 1-1-2013

Received; 16 January 2013 at 03:49 JST

 

Hi Guys here are a couple from new years day.  

The 15 deg alt images are a little lack lustre, but the views were very nice on low power . Coro 90 DS

 

DTy_Sun2013-01-01_02.jpg
 


 

DTy_Sun2013-01-01_01.jpg
 


Best wishes

 

Dave TYLER (Bucks, the UK)

 www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: question

Received; 15 January 2013 at 03:24 JST

 

Dear Masatsugu,
   I hope you are well--I hope to write the essay you requested in the next day or two.

   Meanwhile, I am wondering what you can tell me about Sizuo Mayeda and his June 4, 1937 observation of the bright point near Tithonius Lacus, which I think is one of the classic observations of its kind.  I don't recall if he is one of the Japanese astronomers you discussed in your interesting talk at Meudon in 2009.

 

Bill SHEEHAN  (Willmar, MN)

 

 

¤·····Subject: Jupiter 2013 January 11

Received; 14 January 2013 at 09:56 JST

 

First images of the year. Taken a few hours after culmination, owing to earlier involvement in a Stargazing LIVE event, in which many beginners saw the GRS for the first time, long gone by the time these were taken.

DAr_J_11Jan13
 


The sequence was RGBI,RGBI,RGBI taken as quickly as possible.

 

David ARDITTI  (Middlesex, the UK)

http://www.staglaneobservatory.co.uk

HA8 5LW

 

 

¤·····Subject: Jupiter images, 10th january 2013

Received; 14 January 2013 at 01:50 JST

 

Hi all,  Happy new year !

Some images taken under relatively poor seeing. The SED is visible,   very dark in CH4.

CPl_J2013_01_10
 


http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/J2013_01_10-CPE
As usual the original video files have been processed with DeTeCt to find possible impacts :
http://www.astrosurf.com/planetessaf/doc/dtc/dtc_tuto_en.htm
but nothing found again this time ;)
As a final remark, despite the conditions, the orange colour of BA was easily perceived at the eyepiece.
Best wishes,

 

Christophe PELLIER (Nantes, FRANCE)

 

 

¤·····Subject: Jupiter Image 11-Jan-2013

Received; 12 January 2013 at 23:44 JST

 

Hi Guys another clear night , that's two this year !

See quite detailed but rubbery. Similar longitude to my image of the 9th.

 

DTy_Jup2013-01-11-2116
 


Best wishes

 

Dave TYLER (Bucks, the UK)

 www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Jupiter Image 9-Jan-2013

Received; 12 January 2013 at 07:41 JST

 

Hi Guys we had a welcome clearing for Jupiter on the 9th , seeing was a bit shabby but worth a shot.

 

DTy_Jup2013-01-09-2022
 


Best wishes

 

Dave TYLER (Bucks, the UK)

 www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE

 

 

¤·····Subject: ISMO 2012 Note 8

Received; 6 January 2013 at 01:51 JST

 

Hi all, first happy new year to you. I sincerely hope to hear good news
from you this year, especially from health issues...
Here is the 8th note for CMO 406. Tell me if you have remarks...
Best wishes,


Christophe PELLIER (Nantes, FRANCE)

 

 

¤·····Subject: Lunar crater Atlas, 2012 December 30

Received; 1 January 2013 at 11:01 JST

 

I used here the same setup on the C-14 that I've been using for imaging Jupiter (as it is easier not to change it): the 3x Barlow and Flea 3. Seeing was not good. This is through an IR filter.

 

DAr_Luner
 


The crater Atlas is 87km in diameter, which makes the smallest craterlets in this image, and the width of the fractures on Atlas's floor, about 1km or less.

 

 

David ARDITTI  (Middlesex, the UK)

http://www.staglaneobservatory.co.uk

HA8 5LW

 

 

¤·····Subject: Donald Parker has sent you an ecard from AmericanGreetings.com

Received; 1 January 2013 at 06:22 JST

 

DPk_greeting

Dear Masatsugu,


Happy Birthday and New Year. I hope that you are feeling better.

My thoughts and prayers are always with you.

Best,

 

 

Don PARKER (Coral Gables, FL)

 

 

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Jupiter 2012 December 26 (morning)

Received; 31 December 2012 at 10:41 JST

 

I've already sent the Moon and Jupiter with the 100mm refractor from this night. Here's the C-14 on Jupiter. It was cloudy around culmination so I imaged  later. Seeing was very poor, with lots of shape-changing, so I only took a short sequence of RGBIR. The results have turned out surprisingly not too bad, particularly when the I image is incorporated – a tribute to Emil Kraaikamp's Autostakkert.

 

DAr_J121226
 

DAr_J121226_IR
 


Happy New Year.

 

David ARDITTI  (Middlesex, the UK)

http://www.staglaneobservatory.co.uk

HA8 5LW


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