Hi all,
After 2 neverending years, I’m back again to hunt Jupiter!
Find here my very first attempt since 2009 under fair conditions:
I had to set up everything ground up: camera drivers, softwares, processing methods which they have all got lost with my HDD months ago without any backup (shame on me).
But I count to resume my work where I’ve left it and go ahead.
Hope to have more to send.
Cheers.
Hello everybody
It’s been one year long lasting silence from me, but the latest total eclipse has brought motivations enough to (re)start again!
Everything has changed into my life during this year, but not my passion for Astronomy!
I liked to give my personal “representation” to this phenomena making the eclipsed Moon rising over the magnificent Tuscany countryside where I’m now living in with great pleasure.
The quite low altitude of our satellite helped a lot with my purpose, but not its extremely low brightness when completely dipped into Earth shadow!
At any rate, after several attempts, I could get a reasonable balance of lights and colours.
I was kissed with cristal clear sky during the whole eclipse, except a few scattered clouds at moon rising not disturbing at all.
Image available in 3 sizes for download:
Have a pleasant and relaxing vision!
Thank you for your attention.
Hello,
I could finally give Jupiter my first shot this 2010 apparition, although conditions were all but acceptable.
Rolling clouds and sun rising didn’t allow a RGB capture.
A mediocre seeing has turned into fair when the Sun has rised here, as often happens.
The image has been captured at local 6 a.m. with the Sun 2 degs above the horizon, so the dynamic range was quite poor.
Nothing of special to report but the two interacting WOSs across the SPC and the rising GRS on the right border.
More to follow.
(hope so…)
Hello.
This is the final image closening my October 7, 2009 session and no more will follow from me! Still waiting for a decent session along 2010…
The south-eastern limb is surely dominated by magnificent Janssen crater and majestic Vallis Reitha, but you can also notice how many craters with huge differences in age are spreaded there in a very rough floor. I can literally see a whole generation!
This image might be looking too contrasty, but this is exactly the same view I could admire at the eyepiece.
That’s really all for now, I want to hope my images could have enjoyed yourselves and I could be back soon at work.
Thank you for your kind attention!
Hello.
Find here a wide panorama across the border which separates Tranquillitatis (containing Cauchy rilles) and Fecunditatis (Taruntius crater) maria.
I couldn’t find a name for the tiny rille you can see to the right of the evident rima Secchi and running almost parallel to rima Messier here visible on the very bottom side of the image.
Does anyone know it?
Thank you in advance for your answers.
More to follow.
Hello,
Find here another intriguing area by geological point of view that can be found in the southermost part of the mare Fecunditatis between Goclenius and Messier craters.
On the left side of the image, you can see the fractured ground typical of seas’ edges. On the right side, you can see a log stretched version of the shadowed sea bringing more in evidence all those smooth irregularities of the ground illuminated by an extremely low sun angle.
More to follow.
Hello,
In the heart of the night falled on October 7, 2009 I had my LAST chance to take some fine lunar images. From that night on, I had no more opportunities and 8 months are now gone…
During that nice session, I could grab the south-eastern sector starting from this image portraying a very rough ground not so far from south pole.
More to follow.
Hello everybody,
Sometime I’ve time enough to lurk in the darkest corners of my hard disk looking for some decent stuff to put my hands on.
And I’ve found a couple of well seasoned streams (Sept. 30, 2009!) grabbing the nice area with Mare Frigoris, Sinus Iridum and NW lunar limb.
I recall that night I suffered serious problems with my camera deliverying low framerate and low shades of grey, but seeing was okay despite the Moon was only 37 degs above the horizon.
More to follow (hope so…)
Hello,
Despite my tinner and thinner free time I’ve actually, I try to send my old lunar images nonetheless.
Today’s image’s showing the rough and highly fractured area west of Gassendi.
A noticeable result indeed given the low altitude and far distance of the Moon on that night.
The dark spot visible in the mare Humorum on the bottom-right corner is just a dust donut, not a new topographic detail!
More to follow.
Hello,
After lonely mountains, find here the lonely crater Kepler.
To be honest, isn’t that lonely, but its huge appearance is such to take anything else into the background.
Please note on the far left the elusive rima Suess snaking into the darkness and the rima Milichius snaking at the opposite corner with some conspicuos dome visible despite the high sun angle.
On the bottom, find the rima Maestlin complex.
More to follow.
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