Hi all, the last image out from Feb. 14 lunar session is for the magnificent Proclus area - one among the brightest of the Moon - grabbed under a very high sun angle.
The crater itself was log stretched to avoid an excessive ground darkening all way around it.
I’m now sure the Moon is also interesting when observed far away from the terminator.
A new session is yet to come.
Thank you for your attention.
Hi all, here another image from February 14th session under fair seeing and
average transparency, likely the poorest one of this session.
Just 30 frames averaged for this image with another classical lunar zone causing some excessive graining.
More to follow.
Thank you for your attention.
Hi all, During last weekend of March I drove on southern Tuscany to relax myself and I also brought my scope given the nice weather forecasted.On Friday 28 a 100 km/h jetstream overhead turned a steady Saturn as smooth but on the following night it died down enough, so I had a fairly good seeing.
Moons all way around looked like small diamonds at the eyepiece! What a nice view!
No spots detected over the 2 nights at these longitudes, but I’m amazed indeed in having captured the weak Enceladus moon so close to the bright Saturn disc and, above all, the even weaker Mimas “shining” at 12.8 magnitude with a filtered exposure as short as just 60 msec!
Transparency was excellent and the sky ink black, no wind and no dew at all.
SATURN MARCH 28
SATURN MARCH 29
The 2 images were captured from Villa Tatti, the best italian villa I know!
Thank you for your attention.
Hi all,
Here another image out from February 14 session under mainly fair seeing and average transparency.
A classical view of a well known area with the Sheepshanks rille popping up on the top-right corner.
More to follow.
Thank you for your attention.
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