Jupiter and Io

 

Captured on 12 Nov 2022. Decent seeing conditions. 

Jupiter family photo, Saturn

 

A couple of Jupiter images with Europa and Ganymede in front of the planet and Io on the right. Captured on 26 Oct 2022 from Ederi hill. 

Saturn captured on 26 Oct 2022, 17:53 UT from Ederi hill. 

Chromatic Venus

This trio of Venus images captured when the planet was close to the horizon on May 25, 2020, shows the effects of atmospheric chromatic dispersion. In the first image I had forgotten to put on the UV/IR blocking filter, and I believe the white-ish edge is from infrared light. The second and third images are from the same video capture, with the UV/IR filter on the camera. The difference is, for the second image I did not align the color channels, in order to represent the view seen by eye through the telescope. 

Blade Runner 2049? No, Crete 2018

 

The most impressive Saharan dust event in more than a decade here on Crete happened on 22 Mar 2018. As the day progressed the sky went from yellow to deep orange. All photos are taken with daylight whitebalance, and no post-processing has been performed. 

The Moon with my old digicam

OK, not a planet this time, but our beautiful Moon. It was the first time I tried the raw option for the Moon with my old Canon S80 digital camera (with the CHDK firmware update). The camera was handheld over the eyepiece. By lucky coincidence the camera's objective fits snugly into the 26 mm Meade eyepiece "barrel", so it is quite easy to hold the camera stable. Without the raw shooting mode I get lots of color fringing and softness at the edges of the Moon (from the eyepiece), but this can all be corrected during the raw "development". Not bad for a 12 year old camera. Shot from my terrace on Feb 8, 2017 (probably). 

Jupiter, May 2017

I am falling behind in my updates :-) This was captured almost a year ago; I think from the Ederi hilltop, on May 3rd 2017 (probably). 

Jupiter and Io

Jupiter with Io disappearing behind the planet, and reappearing from the shadow later. Captured from Juchtas, Crete (~800 m altitude) on 28 April 2017. The "jump" in the animation is from when I relocated from a little below the peak, to the actual peak where the seeing was better. Even just slightly below the peak I could feel an intermittent cold drainage flow, and the telescopic views were blurred as a result.