tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10671335790651884432024-03-06T05:43:44.518+02:00Planet ImagingInstead of selfiesJonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04332064239180957747noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067133579065188443.post-38724456438023186462022-12-07T18:14:00.003+02:002022-12-07T18:14:23.722+02:00Jupiter and Io<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjESVSDVeiLxrfqOJLO2Zo4cnmTcNy2lHyVaSaLJYvKtVOisFQSXIPZHuVdkrzfA_0YRxQAU1bb5xcYiJsoBXi8ig0iR_k7Or4axelRBtN-HlyN68eKdIpSsyMzR9HCZuBCkA4Q79qH76QUU5RugVpHhM-UExOcivwLBFzPaEvluf_pNMykVQ88mg/s640/video0041_lapl6_ap145__.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="461" data-original-width="640" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjESVSDVeiLxrfqOJLO2Zo4cnmTcNy2lHyVaSaLJYvKtVOisFQSXIPZHuVdkrzfA_0YRxQAU1bb5xcYiJsoBXi8ig0iR_k7Or4axelRBtN-HlyN68eKdIpSsyMzR9HCZuBCkA4Q79qH76QUU5RugVpHhM-UExOcivwLBFzPaEvluf_pNMykVQ88mg/w400-h289/video0041_lapl6_ap145__.png" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;">Captured on 12 Nov 2022. Decent seeing conditions. </div></span><p></p>Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04332064239180957747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067133579065188443.post-19945147788585190752022-10-30T12:44:00.002+02:002022-10-30T13:24:18.311+02:00Jupiter family photo, Saturn<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcRQNraJ9NvIdW2_-2J6XaEjzWKIZqRedl9rczy2fJ7xzRUFc4AH0jSpHn1AwiHkfbv1PwwBuqdK90ne6QGA3rt52QgMfxTHbZLoPmc7Asukj1BSb_H4iSqPAlNG4eXapxg4FcDVzW76o_xaefBWdHpMPSmtXX1IdfogelvjoeDLUmtkt_VID81A/s640/video0017_lapl6_ap140___.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcRQNraJ9NvIdW2_-2J6XaEjzWKIZqRedl9rczy2fJ7xzRUFc4AH0jSpHn1AwiHkfbv1PwwBuqdK90ne6QGA3rt52QgMfxTHbZLoPmc7Asukj1BSb_H4iSqPAlNG4eXapxg4FcDVzW76o_xaefBWdHpMPSmtXX1IdfogelvjoeDLUmtkt_VID81A/w400-h300/video0017_lapl6_ap140___.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEier86dFNh1EwR9QlpUOHXL47YjLxy7BqjL8Qd9mejhj0hiUNNVjCAPbtaj-pdAsRtDx7IH1OZrBVNkq0uWgZkuTqMquCMWA4zvEPxA9x0jwBZZwWZivsNxGCNOGJ9HRR2hhXPq8tcL4fxNM6U-WE1zzNYWX57nqaWtYUIiG4T6fgzshvelok6StA/s640/video0019_lapl6_ap139_.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEier86dFNh1EwR9QlpUOHXL47YjLxy7BqjL8Qd9mejhj0hiUNNVjCAPbtaj-pdAsRtDx7IH1OZrBVNkq0uWgZkuTqMquCMWA4zvEPxA9x0jwBZZwWZivsNxGCNOGJ9HRR2hhXPq8tcL4fxNM6U-WE1zzNYWX57nqaWtYUIiG4T6fgzshvelok6StA/w400-h300/video0019_lapl6_ap139_.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">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. </span></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHXn_xW3qVc2ysgqRp38r1MCmjx23rebJnMalnrtHf17Ol8Zyl1YFZaHtfnH_kMBIdM-hVv2aaxoghWMSCB-1zjKYrrNLVDKWra8LU7gKxPwVQ14PoOyS1VouCqGfYnfvcSqCidDWB-p0nOd7_zn4hxilFTJKwr3Iw2Qk4IwiEHZ53_6SO9KljoQ/s640/video0006_lapl6_ap18_.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHXn_xW3qVc2ysgqRp38r1MCmjx23rebJnMalnrtHf17Ol8Zyl1YFZaHtfnH_kMBIdM-hVv2aaxoghWMSCB-1zjKYrrNLVDKWra8LU7gKxPwVQ14PoOyS1VouCqGfYnfvcSqCidDWB-p0nOd7_zn4hxilFTJKwr3Iw2Qk4IwiEHZ53_6SO9KljoQ/w400-h300/video0006_lapl6_ap18_.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Saturn captured on 26 Oct 2022, 17:53 UT from Ederi hill. </span></div><br />Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04332064239180957747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067133579065188443.post-36573288925375906092020-05-26T12:09:00.000+03:002020-05-27T16:11:35.081+03:00Chromatic Venus<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">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. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">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. </span></div>
Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04332064239180957747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067133579065188443.post-8299042013095258432018-04-01T16:52:00.000+03:002018-04-07T20:43:39.735+03:00The Moon with my old digicam<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">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 th<span id="goog_472428968"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a><span id="goog_472428969"></span>e 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). </span></div>
Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04332064239180957747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067133579065188443.post-72298725199449642742018-04-01T16:10:00.002+03:002018-04-07T20:50:55.130+03:00Jupiter, May 2017<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04332064239180957747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067133579065188443.post-3419192599549109112017-04-29T18:33:00.000+03:002018-04-01T16:33:46.804+03:00Jupiter and Io<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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.<br />
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Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04332064239180957747noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067133579065188443.post-3462200543092681662014-05-12T20:44:00.003+03:002014-05-12T20:57:16.478+03:00Saturn at opposition (almost), and Mars<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saturn reached opposition on May 10th, 18:15 UTC. Unfortunately the weather was cloudy at that time. This image was taken the following evening, around 27 hours after opposition. Around opposition the rings brighten quite suddenly and quite a lot; this is because the rings are illuminated from directly behind the observer. This effect is often called the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_surge">Seeliger effect</a>. </span><br />
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Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04332064239180957747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067133579065188443.post-52319737947705126322014-03-27T23:00:00.000+02:002014-03-27T23:02:59.753+02:00Returning with Jupiter...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's been quite a while since my previous post - almost two years. During this time I have only occasionally done some observing. The reasons are many; work, other interests (I have been very interested in calisthenics the last couple of years), being tired of mosquitoes getting into my flat every time I open the door to take out or take in the telescope, being plain old lazy, and simply not finding the same joy as before in astronomy. Nevertheless, I do not intend to let this blog share the fate with so many blogs that die after a few posts. So, for starters, here is an image of Jupiter from some time ago. Captured from Ederi hilltop on 19th March 2014, 1741 UT.</span><br />
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Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04332064239180957747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067133579065188443.post-31354336234598923272012-04-18T13:06:00.007+03:002012-04-18T13:06:00.785+03:00Mini-review of Glatter Parallizer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">As a planet imager I am obsessed with accurate collimation. One of the many sources of error lies in the lose fit between a 1.25" adapter and the 2" focuser, and lose fit between the 1.25" collimator and the adapter. In the past I would solve this by shimming the adapter (with tape) and the barrel of my laser collimator, making the fit so tight that I had to put the shimmed 1.25" adapter in the freezer to be able to insert it in the 2" focuser tube! That also meant I could not remove the adapter in the field.<br />
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My recently aquired <a href="http://www.collimator.com/parallizer.htm">Glatter Parallizer </a>has solved my problems. While I have not done any extensive testing, I can tell that it gives me about the same accuracy as I could achieve with my best shimming efforts. What remains of wobble is probably inherent in the focuser and laser collimator. The design is remarkably simple, just an angled setscrew and outer surface that isn't quite round. The "manual" is equally short; just one sentence!<br />
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</div>Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04332064239180957747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067133579065188443.post-21531611958832013702012-04-17T13:06:00.000+03:002012-04-17T13:06:04.059+03:00Recent images<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Just a couple of my better Mars images, and a Saturn...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Below is Mars from a 60 fps capture (sharpened and resized by 2X). It does not matter which DeBayer method I use, the gridlines are always there. Multipoint alignment will partially solve/mask the problem, probably because different parts of the planet are moved around a little relative to each other, and blended in a way that hides seams and averages out some of the gridlines. Still, it is not a good solution. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04332064239180957747noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067133579065188443.post-62847510443693104792012-02-20T20:52:00.001+02:002012-02-20T20:54:10.593+02:00First light with new camera<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">About a week ago I received my new camera; a DBK 21AU618.AS. It has the Sony ICX618 chip, which is a big improvement over the old ICX098 that was in my old camera (and my old Toucam web camera). The seeing did not cooperate, so these images are rather poor. Without further ado; first light: </span></span></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A short video is avilable at <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8HY_1zHq_w">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8HY_1zHq_w</a></div><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04332064239180957747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067133579065188443.post-55088959885096610842011-10-29T20:29:00.000+03:002011-10-29T20:29:31.576+03:00Two Jupiters and a double star<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">A couple of Jupiters captured some time ago. First, a big Jupiter from back in September on a night of good seeing. I spent the night at Agios Pnevmatos above Rethymnon, and the views were magnificent. My mirrors were however rather dirty, and although one always hears that it is not possible to see any difference between a very dirty and a clean mirror, the camera certainly noticed a difference. For this picture I tried the de-rotate function in WinJupos. It improved the details on the disk but caused a ring to be visible not far from the edge of the planet.<br />
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My second picture is from Oct 22, just after I cleaned the mirrors. I could use less gain in the camera after cleaning, and the contrast was better. The transiting moon is Io. Captured from my terrace.<br />
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Lastly, in a departure from the usual planet images, I present an image of one of the pairs in the "double-double". Is the collimation a bit off perhaps? That's all :-)<br />
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</div>Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04332064239180957747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067133579065188443.post-37429502386853136302011-09-06T12:04:00.001+03:002011-09-06T12:08:05.405+03:00Jupiter from Chania<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Lately I have been exploring new locations in order to find better seeing. In the hills just south of Rethymnon I found reasonably good seeing (~ 0.8 arcsec) on two out of four nights, and the one night I spent on Sklopa near Chania the seeing was also good. The below image is from Sklopa, a slightly risky location perhaps, since photography is prohibited near the airport and military base. Captured on Sep 3, 2011, at 01:52 UT.<br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">line is for longitude 0, and the dashed line for longitude 180◦" (from Bely 2003). </span></span>Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04332064239180957747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067133579065188443.post-69427965175685643822011-07-11T17:54:00.007+03:002011-07-11T18:08:33.284+03:00The Jet stream, how important is it really?<div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">It is a well known among amateur (and professional?) astronomers that the jet stream is important for the seeing. Or is it? What evidence exists to support this important role of the jet stream? Vernin (1986) reported a good correlation between the wind speed at the 200 milibar level (the jet stream) and seeing at Mauna Kea and La Silla, and suggested that a jet stream speed of less than 20 meters/second was a requirement for good seeing. </span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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</div>Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04332064239180957747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067133579065188443.post-22236299050598199332011-06-15T13:24:00.001+03:002011-06-15T14:05:53.752+03:00Moons, spokes, and a storm<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Here's a couple of old animations. First, Jupiter from November 2010, with Europa on the right and Io appearing out the the shadow on the left. The animation was done by fellow </span><a href="http://www.cloudynights.com/"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Cloudynights</span></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"> member MvZ, and was featured in </span><a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/11/reader-photos-jupiter/?pid=561&viewall=true"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Wired</span></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">. It is one of the best (series of) images I have achieved with my trusty old Toucam Pro web camera. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Next is Saturn, captured with my new DBK21 camera in Mar 2011. The great storm of 2011 is visible in the northern hemisphere. At the left side </span><a href="http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00002174"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">spokes</span></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"> are visible as dark patches on the rings. For some reason spokes seem to occur most often on the "morning" side of the rings, that is, where the rings rotate out of the shadow from the planet. The new camera does make it easier to get quality images, but still the quality of the seeing is a critical factor; if the seeing is bad both cameras will give bad results. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This is my first try at a blog, and I have a lot to learn about Blogger. I plan to post my planet images here, and we'll see where it goes from there. For now, here is my latest Saturn image. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Compared to my first Saturn image from abut a decade ago, it is an enormous improvement. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I hope one day to equal the results of </span><a href="http://www.damianpeach.com/"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Damian Peach</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">, whose results are unsurpassed in the amateur astronomy community, see for example this fantastic Saturn image: </span><a href="http://www.damianpeach.com/sat11/2011_03_28lrgb.jpg"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">http://www.damianpeach.com/sat11/2011_03_28lrgb.jpg</span></a><br />
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