From
Damian A PEACH
® . . . . . . .Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:13:38 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Re:
20031018 Saturn
Hi Eric,
Thanks for your latest Saturn. I
can sympathise with you on how hard it is to image
Saturn under poor transparency!. An
excellent result for the high gain. The greenish colour
of the SPC looks quite distinct, and also no spots at -40 are present at these longtiudes it seems.
Seeing has been terrible here in
the early mornings, so nothing new from my end....
Best Wishes,
® . .
. . . . .Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 23:06:06 +0100
Subject: Mars
images (October 18th.)
Hi all,
Here are some Mars images from
October 18th under somewhat better conditions.
Best Wishes,
MARS IMAGES, OCTOBER
18th, 2003.
D. A.
Peach, Loudwater,
11"
(28 cm) Celestron SCT @ f/31.4.
Philips
ToUcam Pro Webcam.
Total exposure times:
Red Light (No IR
rejection): 300 x 0.04 secs
Blue Light (+ IR
rejection): 1500 x 0.04 secs
Seeing
poor. occasionally
fair (
Transparency fair-good
with frequent high clouds (2.0 - 5.5mag.)
Eq Diam=17.2"
Altitude= 24 degs.
® . .
. . . . .Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 23:57:15 +0100
Subject: Re: Saturn October 19th 2003
Hi Ed,
Excellent
work. Thats
the first amatuer image i
have seen to capture those dark spots on Saturn, that are so well seen in the
HST imagery. Tracking these could be rather mor difficult, since they are rather harder to record
than the bright South Temperate spots. Hopefully someone will get some good seeing
to capture this area again.
The spots on the Southern
component of the SEB may prove very difficult to track, however the more
prominent dark spot further south at around -40 lat may well be possible.
What a great apparition its
turning out to be already!.
Best Wishes,
Damian PEACH (
ALPO/BAA Jupiter
Sections; BAA Saturn Section
dpeach_78@yahoo.co.uk
Homepage: http://www.damianpeach.com/
http://www.theplanets.cjb.net/
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dpeach78
BAA
Jupiter Section: http://uk.geocities.com/dpeach_78/jup
