Hi all,

I was able to capture a small collection of Jupiter images in mediocre
conditions over 4 following evenings.

Here (July 26) is noticed a weird curl on the southern border of the
vanished SEB.

More to follow.

Hi all,

Here another image of Jupiter under poor seeing conditions.

To be noticed, the turbulent tail of the GRS and an hint of the NNTB (if
I’m not mistaken) here imaged as a yellowish segment.

Hi all,

In our forever sunny but unsteady summer, myself and my friend Nicola
decided to move our targets toward Milky Way nebulae to give a new
camera of mine some preliminary test.

But on July 19, waiting for the darkness falling over his 250mm
newtonian scope, we had an unexpectedly pleasant view of the usually
“milky” gas giant here placed at 23 degs.
We were lucky enough to have some ‘hires imaging hardware’ with
ourselves, so we could grab some interesting stuff.
I could as well test a colorized VGA sensor based camera of mine.

Here’s the result:

I’m not sure I could have more luck in the future…

Altra immagine del gigante gassoso, stavolta con le solite schifide
condizioni di seeing. Ottima trasparenza sui 1500 metri del Giogo.

Da notare la zona turbolenta che segue da vicino la GRS particolarmente
rossa e un accenno delle NNTB (se non erro) che qui appare come un esile
filamento giallastro.

Qualche artefatto circolare al lembo purtroppo presente a causa del
basso contrasto che aveva Giove quella sera col cielo ancora chiaro.

Hi all,

On the last weekend seeing was good (very good to the zenith), but at 23
degs the stability quickly falled down to just fair.
That was enough to grab some color image of Jupiter with a camera
prototype I’m working around.

Nothing of special, but nothing would have been worse!

http://www.lazzarotti-hires.com/images/jupiter/jupiter20070707_lazz.jpg
http://www.lazzarotti-hires.com/images/jupiter/jupiter20070708_lazz.jpg

Hi all,

This is my very last lunar image I’ve captured so far.
Processing was stressing but worth of it.

Between the Caucasus and the Appennines there’s a wealth of interesting
features which require some time spending.

http://www.lazzarotti-hires.com/images/moon/caucasus20070424_lazz.jpg

1. The Aristillus scarp - I never noticed it before, maybe this has a
very gentle slope and a thiny height difference. The sun angle there was
close to 0 when imaging! The enhanced view on the bottom-left corner
surely helps.

2. Rima Theaetetus I and II - the II rille has a dotted path when moving
eastward to Aristillus. This recalls the rille running inside
Posidonius. The I rille gets filled with lava when moving down to the
Appennines. It looks like a dorsae!

I used the LAC 25 for the above references:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/LAC/lac25/150dpi.jpg

3. Valentine dome - Although the unfavourable sun angle, here’s visible
together with the smaller and elusive dome northward of it.

4. Rima Fresnel I and II - As above. The lava washed also this complex
rille system running between the two big mountain chains.

5. Ships in the ness - At the northernmost side of the Appennines, it
looks like some big ships are ringing around big rocks in the sea.

I used the LAC 41 for the above references:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/LAC/lac41/150dpi.jpg

Hope you liked this lunar tour.

Hi all,

Here’s imaged the whole Ariadaeus rille, an nice evidence of the
collapsed ground given any detail enclosed there.
Above the rille, Julius Caesar crater.

http://www.lazzarotti-hires.com/images/moon/rimaariadaeus20070424_lazz.jpg

One more to follow.

Hi all,

On the eve after April 23 I had a similar session but shortened by thin
cirrus which allowed me to grab 4 images only.

Hypparcus was captured at the end when the decent seeing was going
elsewhere.

http://www.lazzarotti-hires.com/images/moon/hypparcus20070424_lazz.jpg

More to follow.