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10-29-07
With the beautful weather lately, I decided to image Comet 17P/Holmes.
I've been hearing all the chatter in my astronomy club
(JSCAS)
and throughout the astronomical community and was excited to find some
time to observe and image this exciting event.
We've had
5-6 days of perfect weather and didn't expect a change but about the
time of sunset, smoke filled clouds started to move in from Galveston
way. To my surprise, those clouds obscured my view up till
around
10:00 pm. By that time, the comet was high enough to observe
and
image. What a beautiful object!! I have both a
"Visual"
view image and an "Enhanced" view image. Click on image to
see
both versions and details. |
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2005
Mars Opposition. Click on the image of Mars on the left to
see
several images made with my 20" Obsession Telescope, Toucam Pro II and
Tom Osypowski Aluminum
Dual Axis Equatorial Platform.
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3-21-04 - The last night at
Spring trip to Fort
McKavett. All by myself with bats flying around my head, I obtain this
shot of Jupiter. I tried to process this shot with the goal of how it
actually appears visually (less processing) through my scope with
excellent seeing conditions. Transparency was 9/10 but the seeing was
around 5/10. 20" Obsession @ f/20 with ToUcam Pro II webcam. |
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3-20-04 - Animation of
Jupiter, Ganymede, and Europa.
Animation has 39 frames, each frame consisting of over 400 frames
aligned, processed, and stacked with Registax. Seeing started out good
(around 6-7/10). As night progressed, seeing decreased and wind
increased as illustrated in animation. 20" Obsession @ f/10 with ToUcam
webcam. |
| 3-19-04 Saturn taken at 2004
spring trip to Fort McKavett. 20"Obsession @ f/10, ToUcam Pro II
webcam, seeing 6/10. |
| 3-6-04 - Wow!!! It's amazing
how much detail can be
seen when the seeing gets better. This is an f/20 shot using the ToUcam
pro II with 20" Obsession. 475 out of 535 frames processed with
Registax2. Considered the "boring" side of Jupiter, this was anything
but boring last night. Seeing was 7/10, Transparency was 5/10. |
| 3-6-04 - Jupiter and Io at
f/10. I finally got some
clear weather to shoot in. Seeing was good (7/10) but shooting through
a persistant cloud (transparency 5/10) that just seem to hang over my
house was challenging. Also, the full moon was about 7.8 degrees from
Jupiter. I began to see what the ToUcam Pro II and my 20" Obsession
combination could really do. Cloud knots, white ovals and blue festoons
galore! Just unbelievable!!! I used all 792 frames stacked with
Registax2. |
| 1-19-04 - This is probably the
highest resolution of
Saturn to date for me. This was on a night that the seeing was about
6/10. Taken at f/20 with 20" Obsession with surveillance camera
recordered to Sony Digital Camcorder then converted to AVI file to be
processed in Registax 2 |
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