Solar&Planetary LtE Now for CMO/ISMO #26 (CMO #400)
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¤·····Subject: Solar images
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Hi
Guys the sun was busier today during another brief
solar appearance. There were two impressive prominences and plenty of active
regions, but still no really big spots.
All images SM90 SS on AP130
EDT @ 80inches efl
Best wishes
Dave
TYLER (Bucks, the
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¤·····Subject: MARS -
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Very poor seeing for this set,
Couldn't get the color right this time.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120629/FWl29June12.jpg
Freddy WILLEMS (
¤·····Subject: solar images 25th 26th June
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Hi Guys
Here are a few images from a couple
of rarified clear spells we had . Quite a nice
arrowhead prom and a very faint one from the 25th, and
a "fresh" spot ar11512 from the 26th.
Best wishes
Dave
TYLER (Bucks, the
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¤·····Subject: Lunar Domes. Old Friends
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The Moon was low and seeing
was only Fair. See attached FYI.
best,
Jim
PHILLIPS
(SC, the
¤·····Subject: Saturn Last Night
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Good
Seeing, Not the best, but good. Nice crop of mosquitoes this year! Spiders will
be happy. See attached FYI.
best,
Jim PHILLIPS
(SC, the
¤·····Subject: Mars:
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Hi -
I have attached
my latest image of Mars
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120628/FMl28June12.jpg
Thanks,
Frank J
MELILLO (
¤·····Subject: RE: For CMO#400
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Dear Masatsugu,
On reading your note, I am hoping that
your condition may be improving now. It seems that the Parkinson's
syndrome came on quite suddenly, but I suppose it may have been gradual for
sometime and only worsened now; was the strain and fatigue of a winter Mars
opposition involved? I do know that with Parkinson's it is important to
get a lot of rest and not to overdo. This will be something that will be difficult
for someone like yourself.
I got back from Lowell Observatory three weeks ago. The
transit observations (with Paolo Tanga's coronagraph,
which I used visually; Paolo used another to image Venus with CCD) were
entirely successful. We got splendid views of the aureole, and I also saw
quite a dramatic Black Drop. I shall send you drawings from my home
address. I also spent time with Dale Cruikshank,
who recounted his experiences with Kuiper and other
similar adventures, and I made some explorations of the geological sites
associated with the training of astronauts during the Apollo era, including a
descent into Meteor Crater with Drew Barringer
(grandson of the person who tried to mine the iron and nickel that he thought
was buried at the bottom).
I have my transit observations to write up, and also an article with Jay
Pasachoff disputing the claim that Lomonosov saw the aureole in 1761 has plunged me into
controversy; these queries must be replied to sometimes. I am trying to
finish work on a translation into English of James Lequeux's
book on Le Verrier. Also of course I have many
professional duties to attend to. So it is somewhat difficult to commit
to an article for the CMO by mid-July, but I may suggest writing up something
on the Mars book that the Trustee of Lowell Observatory wanted V.M. Slipher, E.C., and C.O. Lampland
to write in the 1920s. A fair amount of work went into it, but it was
never published; however, I did have a chance to look at these manuscripts
in the archives at
With best wishes,
Bill
SHEEHAN
(
¤·····Subject: June 27 solar images
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Hi Folks,
After a rather quiet week the
sun appears to be throwing a little action our way once again. These
images are taken with the Luntanado 100/90 at .5A
(the full disk shots), and a
Regards,
Jim
LAFFERTY
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http://scopetrader.com/jimlafferty
¤·····Subject: CMO #400
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Dear Masatsugu,
I think I have answered too
fast to your request for a special note for the #400. An essay about the Alba
cloud observed in 2010 looks secondary to this respect.
I have the idea of writing
something about the now famous "Wayne Jaeschke's
cloud". Not about just this cloud, but about all those limb clouds that we
have observed. We have many preceding references ;
like the 2003 one, or some found on HST shots (Reiichi
looked one on a 2003 image ; and I have casually found another in 1999 february - unreleased images).
I don't know if that essay
will be able to propose some explanations. But at least there will be a record
of all the detected events, with some remarks (prefered
sites of apparition, frequency, observed albedo
(filters)....)
Do this sounds right to you ?
Best wishes,
Christophe PELLIER (
¤·····Subject: Mars:
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Hi -
I have
attached my latest image of Mars
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120621/FMl21June12.jpg
Thanks,
Frank J
MELILLO (
¤·····Subject: The entire face of Mars in 2012.
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Hi all,
Here is a full projection map
of the entire face of Mars and also a full rotation movie obtained between
Map: http://www.damianpeach.com/mars1112/2012wholemap.jpg
Movie:
http://www.damianpeach.com/mars1112/mars2012dp.wmv
Six image montage: http://www.damianpeach.com/mars1112/mars2012.jpg
This concludes my submissions
for the 2011-12 apparition.
Best Wishes
Damian PEACH (Selsey, WS, the
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¤·····Subject: Jupiter: 19 June and
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Best Wishes
Tomio AKUTSU (
¤·····Subject: The Transit of Venus
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Images
of the Transit of Venus.
Best
Wishes
Tomio AKUTSU (
¤·····Subject: Re: Thank you for the article on Alba
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Dear Masatsugu,
Very fine. Reiichi, again many thanks for the translation !
For the next issue, I think that I will wrote a
flash-back note, to
study how the Alba cloud was visible in 2010. Just to see if there were
some seasonal differences...
Christophe PELLIER (
¤·····Subject: solar images May 28th- June 13/14/17
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Hi
Guys this just about brings me up to date with solar images . The
Sun has gone a little quiescent just now. Coinciding with yet another
"low" weather system here in
Best wishes
Dave
TYLER (Bucks, the
www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE
¤·····Subject: Mars - June 10th
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Hi Mr. Murakami, Here is my
latest session on Mars from the 10th of June, Clear Skies.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120610/EMr10June12.jpg
Efrain MORALES (
¤·····Subject: Saturn
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Hi Guys
A surprise clear sundown
with reasonable seeing was most welcome. I did not note any spots on the
component images.
Best wishes
Dave
TYLER (Bucks, the
www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE
¤·····Subject: Mars:
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Hi -
I have attached
my latest image of Mars
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120618/FMl18June12.jpg
Thanks,
Frank J
MELILLO (
¤·····Subject: Saturn 14 June
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Hi All,
I have attached an RGB and a CH4 Saturn image from 14 June. The NNTB dark barge
is again noted near 170 degrees (III), +44.2 degrees.The
barge and its accompanying white appear to have drifted east about 9 degrees
(System II) since Chris Go's 11 June image and nearly
38 degrees since my 30 May image.
Best,
Don PARKER (
¤·····Subject: Mars -
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A small mars in variable
conditions. Maybe my
last one.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120612/FWl12June12.jpg
Freddy WILLEMS (
¤·····Subject: transit
of venus
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Hi my Guys
Pardon for the delay because
I changed my location from
Best wishes,
Sadegh GHOMIZADEH (
¤·····Subject: Re: CMO/ISMO
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Dear Bill,
Thank you for your encouragement. I can't imagine the CMO/ISMO to stop, even
temporarily. The level of quality of the review as well as the adequate form of
publication for amateurs is a wealth !
I have read with interest your comments about the Lowel's
observatory project of pro/am cooperation. This kind of cooperation is getting
more strenght currently in the planetary domain,
thanks of course to the great discoveries made by amateurs over the past years,
especially on Jupiter but Saturn as well.
Two weeks ago I have been participating to a pro/am "school"
organized in La Rochelle every three years by the CNRS (national council of the
scientific research) and the AUDE association (that has been promoting for
years the spectroscopy for amateurs), and this year for the first time they
added a session dealing with possible cooperation projects about the gas giants
- Marc Delcroix made a talk about Saturn, Jean-Luc Dauvergne on the new cameras and Ricardo Hueso Alonso, from the Sanchez-Lavega's
group in Bilbao, presented the jovian
climate.
Mars is not right now a subject for a cooperation of this kind but it could be.
Yes monitoring dust storms is a subject, but there may be other topics as well.
In september, the European
planetary science congress (EPSC) will open for the first time an amateur
session (with Marc and Ricardo), and I have chosen to propose an abstract for a
talk about Mars, that I have added to this e-mail. It will be first an attempt
to show what is the level of amateur studies today. Apart
of dust storms I'd like to describe as well a precise study of the Tharsis spring/summer clouds.
I think that an ISMO essay about the
Best wishes to all of you,
Christophe PELLIER
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¤·····Subject: Solar images
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Hi Guys here are a few images
from the 27th May in Double stack and single stack off
Best wishes
Dave
TYLER (Bucks, the
www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE
¤·····Subject: Solar
images 24th and
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Hi
Guys
Solar backlog from the heat wave
is getting shorter . Here are some from 24th and 26th.
Nice prom display, and a line of filaments marching
over the horizon.
Best wishes
Dave
TYLER (Bucks, the
www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE
¤·····Subject: CMO/ISMO
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Dear Masatsugu
and Christophe,
I am sorry to hear, Masatsugu,
of your continuing neurological difficulties, and am hoping with Christophe that the nuclear scan of your brain sheds some
light on this. It must be very frustrating not to be able to keep up your
usual workload. Christophe, I commend you for
agreeing to fill in for Masatsugu in keeping CMO/ISMO
up to date, and I am hoping to contribute an essay in due course, as soon as I
get caught up with obligations.
The transit of Venus observations from Lowell
Observatory were excellent; Paolo Tanga, whom you
both met in Paris for our 2009 Mars observers meeting, brought two special
coronagraphs, one used by Paolo to obtain CCD imagery and the other by myself
visually. We were eager to record the aureole. Though there were a
number of other instruments deployed internationally (the project was led by
Paolo and Thomas Widemann of Paris Observatory), I
personally think the
At Lowell I spent some time in
the archives and read through manuscript materials for the book that the Sole
Trustee, Roger Lowell Putnam II, expected V.M. and E. C. Slipher
and C.O. Lampland to write about Mars after Percival
Lowell’s death. It was quite interesting to see all this,
and I think partly explains the distractions that V.M. experienced after he
made the initial spectrograms of the nebulae in the nineteen teens. This
would make an interesting CMO/ISMO essay.
Klaus Brasch and Kevin Schindler, who are both associated with
Lowell Observatory, and I discussed a new pro-am initiative that is being
organized through Lowell Observatory, and would like to make an announcement to
CMO/ISMO to consider participating in the program. Lowell Observatory was
for many years the leader in monitoring Mars, and perhaps through this program
we can once again serve a role of coordinating amateur observations with those
being made by professionals and space probes. The dust storm monitoring
seems especially worthwhile, as well as creation of an organized data archive
like that CMO has been organizing for many years.
Best,
Bill
SHEEHAN
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¤·····Subject: Re: Next
ISMO Note
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Dear Masatsugu,
Thanks, I'll do my best to finish my article on time.
I think it's a good idea to go on with general topics regularly. It will
also give me more time to work on the 2012 notes !
Hopefully your coming exams will help you to recover the best possible...
Best wishes,
Christophe PELLIER
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¤·····Subject: Mars 12
June
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Hi All,
I have attached RGB Mars images from 12 June. Numerous clouds persist.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120612/DPk12June12.jpg
Best,
Don PARKER (
¤·····Subject: Next ISMO
Note
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Dear Masatsugu,
I'm currently working on my proposal for the first note of the 2012 apparition
that deals with the Alba cloud case. Do we have something scheduled already for
the next issue ?
Or can you give me a deadline ?
Best wishes,
Christophe PELLIER (
¤·····Subject: Drawings
of Mars
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Dear Dr. Minami,
My broken scanner/printer was
finally fixed and sent back from the maker, so I have attached here my latest
drawings of Mars.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120519/Kn19May12.jpg
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120526/Kn26May12.jpg
I
am also attaching here the first test image of the ESA's Mars Express VMC(Visual Monitoring Camera) taken on
Best Wishes,
Reiichi KONNAÏ (
¤·····Subject: Mars:
Received;
Hi -
I have attached my
latest image of Mars
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120611/FMl11June12.jpg
Thanks,
Frank J
MELILLO (
¤·····Subject: MARS -
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Oops found a set of Mars
captures of
Looks like seeing was not great that day.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120519/FWl19May12.jpg
Freddy
WILLEMS
(
¤·····Subject: Mars (
Received;
Hi all,
Fair seeing on this evening. The Tharsis volcanoes
are prominent. Weather has been dismal since with no further opportunities and with
the planet fast sinking in the twilight this way will be it for this
apparition!
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120530/DPc30May12.jpg
http://www.damianpeach.com/mars1112/2012_05_30rgb.jpg
Best Wishes
Damian PEACH (Selsey, WS, the
¤·····Subject: Mars in excellent seeing (
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Hi all,
Excellent seeing on this particular evening. Despite its diminutive size there
is plenty visible. Extensive clouds across the planet. Arsia
Mons looks dark and almost like a teardrop shape. No
clouds flanking Olympus Mons. A
bright patch of cloud just to the south of the NPC.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120528/DPc28May12.jpg
http://www.damianpeach.com/mars1112/2012_05_28rgb.jpg
Best Wishes
Damian PEACH (Selsey, WS, the
¤·····Subject: Mars
images (
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Hi all,
Fair
seeing on this night with a cloud free
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120527/DPc27May12.jpg
http://www.damianpeach.com/mars1112/2012_05_27rgb.jpg
Best Wishes
Damian PEACH (Selsey, WS, the
¤·····Subject: Solar images
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Hi
Guys here are couple of images of this days action , a
very long series of proms and the Active Region 11486
Best wishes
Dave
TYLER (Bucks, the
Ham call G4PIE
¤·····Subject: Transit
of Venus from
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Hi
all,
Arrived back from Longyearbyen last night. Despite
the best efforts of clouds to thwart the view, a good set of observations and
images of the transit of Venus were made. Image processing run has only just
begun but here's an initial white light result. Many other images were taken
using a Solarscope SF-70 hydrogen-alpha filter and a
Calcium-K PST.
Best regards,
Pete LAWRENCE (Selsey, WS, the
¤·····Subject: Transit
of Venus
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Hi
We just about saw it
from Selsey in the
Cheers
Jamie
COOPER (Selsey, WS, the
¤·····Subject:
preliminary results from the coronagraph
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>Subject:
Re: [Volunteers] more transit stuff
>Date: 6/6/12 9:15:48 AM
>From: "Paolo Tanga" <Paolo.Tanga@oca.eu>
>To: "Klaus Brasch" <krbrasch@earthlink.net>
>Cc: "Kevin Schindler" <kevin@lowell.edu>,
public_program@lowell.edu,
>volunteers@lowell.edu, sheehan41@charter.net,
wjbanjo@hotmail.com,
>jimroberts@robertsjones.com
>
>Dear Kevin and all
>
>I join Klaus as I was deeply impressed by the efforts by you and your
>team for making this event a big success. Your enthusiasm and kindness
>have never failed even in the critical parts of the day. It is a great
>pleasure to see such an animation in an historical place, which is
>everyday alive with animation, extremely attractive but always
>respecting the local heritage - which is very important to me. I'd would
>like to see the same in some European observatory, including Nice, but
>unfortunately it is not the case for the moment.
>
>Keep up the exceptional work you do at
>(even if I've not left yet).
>
>As a small souvenir, I attach some images taken by the coronagraph
>yesterday, of the aureole of Venus.
>
>Kind regards
>
>Paolo
>
>On
>>
>> A terrific event indeed, Kevin, and YOU
deserve as much credit for
>> its success as anyone else. Thank you for
organizing and looking
>> after so many last minute issues and for
remaining "calm" and
>> cheerful throughout. A special thanks on
behalf of Bill Sheehan,
>> Paulo Tanga, Bill Buke, Jim Roberts and myself for helping make
>> the scientific part of the transit such a big
success as well.
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Klaus
>>
>> What can I say? I am completely
overwhelmed by the effort that so
>> many of you put out today. Not that I am
surprised, as you
>> demonstrate this day in and day out. But
considering the
>> completely outrageous crowd size, and the many
challenges
>> involved, you all went above and beyond the
normal call of duty to
>> make this event so successful. I
especially appreciate those of
>> you who came in on your days off, worked extra
time, or covered
>> duties that were far less glamorous than
viewing and yet were
>> critical ? parking cars, directing traffic, etc.
>>
>> Thank you, thank you, thank you.
>>
>> With my fondest thoughts, Kevin
>>
>> Kevin Schindler
>> Outreach Manager
>> Lowell Observatory
>> 1400 W. Mars Hill Rd.
>> Flagstaff, AZ 86001
>> (928) 233-3210 phone
>> (928) 774-6297 fax
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Bill SHEEHAN
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¤·····Subject: June 5
Transit of Venus
Received;
Hi
folks---
There have been lots of
wonderful images being posted of yesterdays transit of
Venus! Hopefully weather was good enough for all of you to see it.
Here is my contribution from yesterday. The scope was a Lunt 100 T/Ha and a DMK 41 camera. These were imaged
from Joshua Tree National Park in the southern
Enjoy!
more at:
http://scopetrader.com/jimlafferty/?page=399
Regards!
Jim
LAFFERTY
(
http://scopetrader.com/jimlafferty
¤·····Subject: Mars
images (
Received; 7 June 2012
at 05:35 JST
Hi all,
Fairly good seeing on this night with Olympus Mons
and the Tharsis orographics
nicely seen.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120524/DPc24May12.jpg
http://www.damianpeach.com/mars1112/2012_05_24rgb.jpg
Best Wishes
Damian PEACH (Selsey, WS, the
¤·····Subject: Mars
images (
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Hi all,
Mars from May 22nd in poor seeing conditions.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120522/DPc22May12.jpg
http://www.damianpeach.com/mars1112/2012_05_22rgb.jpg
Best Wishes
Damian PEACH (Selsey, WS, the
¤·····Subject: Saturn 30 May
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Hi
All,
I have attached an RGB Saturn image from
30 May. A small dark bar is seen on the NTB at 221 degrees (III), +44 degrees.
Best,
Don PARKER (
¤·····Subject: Mars
images 23 may 2012
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Hi all,
Here is my first set of images since 1st april. We had
awful weather almost continuously from that date in
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120523/CPl23May12.jpg
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/M2012_05_23-CPE
Best wishes,
Christophe PELLIER
(
¤·····Subject: Solar
Image full disc
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Hi Guys Quite
a busy sun on this morning. More details on:-
http://www.david-tyler.com/image-gallery/?wppa-album=28&wppa-photo=228&wppa-occur=1
Best wishes
Dave
TYLER (Bucks, the
www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE
¤·····Subject: Saturn
2012.05.28
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Dears,
Under good seeing for the R+IR, but unfortunately with a bad transparency
degrading quickly and ruining my color layers:
http://astrosurf.com/delcroix/images/planches/s20120528-MDe.jpg
There are details in the rest of the GWS, especially
in R+IR, luminance and green layers.
A montage in R+IR with clockwise starting from
http://www.astrosurf.com/delcroix/images/saturne_20120528-rir-6sat.jpg
Sincerely,
Marc
DELCROIX (
http://astrosurf.com/delcroix
¤·····Subject: Mars 2012.05.28
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Dears,
Mars under good conditions:
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120528/MDc28May12.jpg
http://astrosurf.com/delcroix/images/planches/m20120528-MDe.jpg
Surface is loaded with whitish zones - many clouds, also visible on the
blue layer. Around the polar cap there are 3 of those !
Sincerely,
Marc
DELCROIX
(
http://astrosurf.com/delcroix
¤·····Subject: Mars - May 23rd, 23:29ut, (Saturn - May 28th)
Received;
Hi
Mr. Murakami, Here is my latest session from May 23rd, under average
conditions, Clear Skies to All.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120523/EMr23May12.jpg
I also included my latest
image set of Saturn on May 28th.
Efrain
MORALES RIVERA
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