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This is the non-composited version of the picture (no moons). The composited one is currently BAA Picture of the Week . … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2012
On Christmas night 2012 the Moon and Jupiter got within a degree as seen from the UK, and from South America and Southern Africa there was an occultation of Jupiter. This was actually quite a difficult scene to image, as … Continue reading
This morning saw unusually good seeing for this location. The diffraction pattern of Aldrebaran which I use to collimate with on screen looked almost perfect. Unfortunately there was cloud as Jupiter culminated at midnight, and it took a long time … Continue reading
I only managed to get a single RGB run of 3 mins total (about 3500 frames total) in on this occasion due to cloud, so detail is not great despite fair seeing. … Continue reading
Conditions at Four Mile Beach, Port Douglas, Queensland, Australia were not perfect, with broken cloud throughout this early morning eclipse. However, I have been able to put together this sequence of shots which shows the progress of totality as it … Continue reading
My best image of Jupiter this apparition (and probably ever). RGB,RGB,RGB sequence, all at 1 min 30 fps. … Continue reading
Trying to bring my Jupiter processing a bit more up-to-date. This image from the 14th was constructed from an RGB,RGB,RGB sequence, all one minute videos. Seeing not great. … Continue reading
On this date I only managed to get one 60s video through the red filter before it clouded. Pity as the seeing was good. Here’s the result. … Continue reading
This has been sitting on my desktop for a long time. Good conditions (by our standards) on September 25 enabled this capture. As people may be interested in the method, here is a brief explanation: The observatory was opened and … Continue reading
Here’s some images from the 22nd, poor seeing as usual. Ganymede is just coming out of occultation. The 03:56.8 image is made from a single RGB set. A hint of detail is visible on Ganymede. The 03:53.9 image is a … Continue reading