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Neptune from Rocky Gap State Park Amphitheater, Flintstone, Allegany, Maryland, USA (2022-09-08). www.nicolesharp.net/
Jupiter from Rocky Gap State Park Amphitheater, Flintstone, Allegany, Maryland, USA (2022-08-31). www.nicolesharp.net/
Celestron SLT127MAK
ZWO ASI224MC
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12-01-28 05-36-13 I am glad I got up early this morning, the seeing was mushy for Mars but steadied up a bit for Saturn. You can see the northern polar region in this image. Good to see the rings open again too.
Jupiter surface image overlay all over Google Earth. Cool!
KMZ for Google Earth avalable here.
Related Blog Entry:
Mars in opposition on 8 Apr 2014, showing the polar cap (light spot top left) and Mare Acidalium (dark area bottom right). Also shown are clouds of Carbon dioxide or water-based ice crystals (bottom left). Roughly half the size of Earth, Mars has an orange dusty surface boasting vast, dark, rock expanses. This image was captured using a QHY IMG132E attached to a Sky-Watcher Explorer 190MN Pro, with a Tele Vue 2x Powermate to increase magnification. The image is the result of 500 x 15ms exposures, stacked using AutoStakkert2 and processed using Registax 6.
Coming around from the western limb sunspot 1596 is a very complex structure with bridges and a large trailing group of smaller spots which makes it more appropriately named as sunspot region 1596. The granulation of the Sun around this spot is very clear compared to other areas.. Taken with a DMK21AU618 camer and IR filter.
When comparing this shot to the next, there is only 8 minutes between each photograph. If compared side by side the rotation of Jupiter is evident.
Jupiter from Rocky Gap State Park Amphitheater, Flintstone, Allegany, Maryland, USA (2022-08-31). www.nicolesharp.net/
Taken from my back yard on a tripod-mounted Canon PowerShot S5IS. I had to scale the 3 images in the panorama down to minimize the star movement over the 2 minute exposures, but it is still fairly evident. I must figure out someday how to take shorter exposures and stack them. Planetary and lunar image stacking seems a lot easier than this!
Elizabeth's Solar System Project: Everything but Pluto (I refuse to accept its demotion to dwarf planet - deal with it) and Neptune.
From Red Rock Canyon State Park, CA. Five minute exposure on ISO 800 film, hand guided with a barn door platform.
Zagora 006 (Morocco) — eucrite (HED), brecciated — polished slice (6 g).
Macro views show a fine-grained light-grey matrix with darker clasts and scattered opaque grains. Localized orange-brown staining likely from terrestrial weathering/oxidation.
Credit : Thomas Thomopoulos
William Korthof, System Designer for Energy Efficiency Solar of Pomona teaches the details of the photovoltaic system during the Sustainable Workshop Series with the Solar Living Institute at Cal Poly Pomona's Lyle Center, Thursday, July 17, 2008. Eric Reed/photographer
Where are all our spacecraft right now?
Humans have launched dozens of scientific spacecraft all around the solar system and many are still doing science. I wrote a program to draw the current position of the active deep space probes (those not very close to a planet).
The updated, current image can be found here:
api.open-notify.org/solarview/inner.png
And documentation here:
open-notify.org/api-doc#solarview
And code here:
Irak - Wakast
RGB enhancement of True color
Image captured by Sentinel 2 L A true color on February, 2025 - north is up
Credit : Copernicus Sentinel data 2025/Thomas Thomopoulos
rescanning this book, finding new interesting things
tags are from the library's description of the book
From Wikipedia:
Harmonices Mundi (Latin: The Harmony of the Worlds, 1619) is a book by Johannes Kepler. In the work Kepler discusses harmony and congruence in geometrical forms and physical phenomena. The final section of the work relates his discovery of the so-called "Third Law" of planetary motion.
Kepler divides The Harmony of the World into five long chapters: the first is on regular polygons; the second is on the congruence of figures; the third is on the origin of harmonic proportions in music; the fourth is on harmonic configurations in astrology; and the fifth on the harmony of the motions of the planets.
While medieval philosophers spoke metaphorically of the "music of the spheres," Kepler discovered physical harmonies in planetary motion. He found that the difference between the maximum and minimum angular speeds of a planet in its orbit approximates a harmonic proportion. For instance, the maximum angular speed of the Earth as measured from the Sun varies by a semitone (a ratio of 16:15), from mi to fa, between aphelion and perihelion. Venus only varies by a tiny 25:24 interval (called a diesis in musical terms). Kepler explains the reason for the Earth's small harmonic range:
The Earth sings Mi, Fa, Mi: you may infer even from the syllables that in this our home misery and famine hold sway.
At very rare intervals all of the planets would sing together in 'perfect concord': Kepler proposed that this may have happened only once in history, perhaps at the time of creation.
The Gainesville Solar Walk is a 4 billion to 1 scale model of the solar system along NW 8th Avenue. It spans nearly a mile, and you can see monuments to all the planets in the solar system on the Solar Walk. Each planet is represented with its own monument designed by artist Elizabeth Indianos. Pluto may no longer be considered a planet, but he does have this as a reminder of when he was!