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Mars just before midnight on 22nd April 2014. Northern polar cap is at the 11 o'clock position, Utopia Planita (near cap) and Syrtis Major Planum are very evident
8" SCT 2000mm f/10, Skyris 618C camera, 2.5x Powermate
Re-process of Mars image taken on 22nd April
8" SCT (2000mm f/10), Skyris 618C camera, 2.5x Powermate
Unclassified Moroccan chondrite, polished slice (15 g). Bright specks are likely Fe–Ni metal. The pale ~6 mm oval is possibly a macrochondrule or a clast.
Credit : Thomas Thomopoulos
Unclassified Moroccan chondrite, polished slice (15 g). Bright specks are likely Fe–Ni metal. The pale ~6 mm oval is possibly a macrochondrule or a clast.
Credit : Thomas Thomopoulos
Saturn from Rocky Gap State Park Amphitheater, Flintstone, Allegany, Maryland, USA (2022-08-31). www.nicolesharp.net/
8" F/6 Newtonian and 2.5X barlow. Imaging Source video camera. Frames stacked and processed with RegiStax
Moon surface image overlay all over Google Earth. Cool!
Might be better than Google Moon :-)?
KMZ for Google Earth avalable here.
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Jupiter from Rocky Gap State Park Amphitheater, Flintstone, Allegany, Maryland, USA (2022-08-31). www.nicolesharp.net/
Saturn from Rocky Gap State Park Amphitheater, Flintstone, Allegany, Maryland, USA (2022-08-31). www.nicolesharp.net/
“most of the terrain east of Kuiper, toward the limb (edge) of the planet, the departing images are the first spacecraft views of that portion of Mercury’s surface. A striking characteristic of this newly imaged area is the large pattern of rays that extend from the northern region of Mercury to regions south of Kuiper.”
From the Official Messenger site.
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/
Jupiter and Mercury at 1.3 degrees apart setting on western horizon on March 27th 2023 provided some different shades of colorful backdrops as they dropped down in the atmosphere... Jupiter is on left with Mercury on right. Taken from Woodstock, Maryland. WO GT71 Refractor with Canon T7i camera.
Celestron SLT127MAK
ZWO ASI224MC
Camera settings:
Capture area=640x480
Turbo USB=80
Gain=181
Exposure=0.029425
White balance (B)=99, (R)=50
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!
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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!