Hi all,
Here another lunar mare image out of June. 10th session under mainly fair seeing and average transparency. Sun setting at the time of the recording.
The elusive mare Smythii is normally seen edge-on along the eastern limb, but the favourable libration brought it better in view.
Processing wasn’t that easy because of the very low contrasted ground.
More to follow.
Thank you for your attention.
Hi all,
This is likely my best image out of May 14 lunar session when thin clouds faded away and seeing steadied for a while.
To be noticed the rough texture of the lunar ground all way around the north polar area, the odd and wide “spot of light” centered above Anaxagoras crater and its weak radial blankets on the right side of the image.
Also, some suspicious bump not so far from Fontenelle crater (lower left corner) across the dorsae starting from its crater rim.
It’s too bad I couldn’t grab the area south of it!
More to follow.
Thank you for your attention.
Hi all, my jovian season has been closed on August 3rd because of the regular poor seeing here from that night on.
But I could capture the southern gas giant for a whole week at that time, find here below any image.
JUPITER JUL. 28
JUPITER JUL. 29
JUPITER JUL. 31
JUPITER AUG. 2
JUPITER AUG. 3
Of course, the planet was always in its murky low 20s. Sorry for my late posting but this is actually the best I could do lately.
Thank you for your patience.
Hi all, Another fair session on Jupiter from mt. Giogo on last Saturday night!
For the first time I used the very new RGB filter set by Baader Planetarium which are simply great!
The exposure falled down to 32 msec (my old Edmund Optics filter set never allowed me a faster than 44 msec exposure all being equal) and the color rendition is also very good! No add’l IR blocking filter was used.
Notice the SEB outbreak and the very dark spot in the STB emerging from the eastern limb.
Thank you for your attention.
Hi all! My ordinary job kept me far for a while from my laptop where some Jupiter stuff were parked in.
Find those here:
JUPITER ON JUNE 28-29
JUPITER ON JULY 10
I could capture the GRS and the LRS a while before and after their encounter.
I noticed the GRS has likely “sucked” the orange tint of the LRS throwing away an anonimous whitish spot.
All the images were captured in my trusty Giogo mountain under acceptable conditions. Fair seeing with very poor transparency on June 28/29, fairly poor seeing with excellent transparency on July 10.
More to follow.
(Hopefully)
Hi all, on June 22 I climbed up to my holy mount Giogo to give the murker Jupiter a try.
Once again, that place gave me a bit of its magic!
The seeing at 24 degree altitude was unbelievably good from there on that night (at the zenith should have been close to 10/10), so I could grab my best Jupiter images since 2006!
If months ago someone would have told me such a result was possible, well, I would have laughed till the bellyache!
Be sure of expanding the reduced version delivered by your browser to look at the original size.
Any way, although setting, the BA oval (GRS Jr) looks like very faded while the small red oval preceding the GRS is very concentrated looking like a ruby.
The usual turbulent tail following the GRS is on a nice display into the SEB.
The NTB is nothing short of beatiful with that green rim running inside!
Now I know miracles are possible somewhere, I think I’ll try Jupiter again on this summer…
Hi all, here my latest pan-image out of Feb. 17 session: the mare Humorum and more.
The much lower sun angle helped somewhat the processing but the tonal range balance was a pain in order to keep bright areas as not burned out and half shadowed areas not too dark.
As usual, make sure your browser is showing you the full res image and not the fit-to-screen version.
The mare Humorum is definitively surrounded by fractures all way around it, most are shadowed and not visible here in the image.
More to follow.
Thank you for your attention.
Hi all, from now on, I’m pleasured to share with you a wide collection of lunar seas which took the best of my patience!
For this reason, my processing was much slower than usual.
I composed 3 or 4 frames each image and often the stability varied from a stream to another getting my task even harder.
The first big portrait is with Mare Serenitatis grabbed under a very high sun angle putting on evidence any albedo marking and hundreds of craterlets spreaded all way around.
This is a 4 frames mosaic, the bottom-right frame suffered with the poorest seeing. Very disappointing indeed!
Make sure to view the full res version, your browser is surely downscaling the big image to match your screen resolution.
More to follow.
Thank you for your attention.
Hi all, Another “aged” lunar session from dated Feb. 17.
I was lately very busy with my ordinary job, I’m now going through my backlog of lunar images parked in my HDD.Here’s imaged the Kepler area under a low sun angle showing several domic structures all way around.
But the “pimply” area around Marius A crater (whose western rim is visible here on the left side of the image) is amazing indeed!
It looks like a downscaled version of the best known Marius hills lying westward not so far from here! The enhanced (gamma 0.7) inset image show these much better.
I wonder what those are.
More to follow.
Thank you for your attention.
Hi all, on June 10 I gave Jupiter my very first attempt this year feeding very little hopes to get some decent image out because its murky altitude from here.
But I had an unexpectedly good seeing on that morning when the sky was getting brighter and brighter and the planet was falling down to 22 degs.
Transparency was poor given the 95% ground umidity turning Jupiter into a yellowish star.
Here you can find the image:
The tricoloured NTB is nothing short of amazing indeed at these longitudes! I never noticed such a beatiful revival so far!
Hope to have more opportunities like this one over next summer.
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