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For the first time on Pluto, this view reveals linear features that may be cliffs, as well as a circular feature that could be an impact crater.
This graphic summarises significant measurement attempts of methane at Mars. Reports of methane have been made by Earth-based telescopes, ESA’s Mars Express from orbit around Mars, and NASA’s Curiosity located on the surface at Gale Crater; they have also reported measurement attempts with no or very little methane detected. More recently, the ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter reported an absence of methane, and provided a very low upper limit.
In order to reconcile the range of results, which show variations in both time and location, scientists have to understand better the different processes acting to create and destroy methane.
Credits: ESA
Mosaic from Perseverance Rover on Mission day 308
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Raw images can be found here: mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/
Moon Eclipse on May 16, 2022
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello
Lunar Eclipse on May 16, 2022 from Italy
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello
The early hours of May 16, 2022, was not an easy eclipse. The Moon was well below the threshold of good resolution due to an annoying haze and the progressive absorption effect operated by the atmosphere, well perceptible during the advancement of the phenomenon.
Having taken standard shots, normalized automatically, the brightness is indicative of these factors with the addition of the light of the incipient dawn.
The first shot is with the Moon still completely out of the shadows. Then there are some shots during the penumbral phase, in which there is a progressive shading of the advancing side. With the beginning of the partial phase, all the shots are equally spaced until the last one, when the Moon was no longer visible even by extending the exposure.
Please note that the images were taken from Italy (coordinates in the localization TAG).
All shots were taken with Tair-3S (unit 2) + 2x Panagor telephoto lens on Kodak EOS 4000D (body2) at 200 ISO - 1/400s. Tracking was guaranteed by an EQ5. Other data in the EXIFs.
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Tair-3S @600mm + EOS 4000D
Updated: v3 of my Solar System images! 🔭
(Composite, not to scale)
• Sun/Mercury: Mercury Transit, Nov 11, 2019
• Venus: Mar 21, 2020
• Earth's Moon: Jul 29, 2017
• International Space Station: Jun 1, 2020 (with Crew-Dragon DM-2 docked at the top end)
• Mars: Sep 28, 2020
• Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE): Jul 20, 2020
• Jupiter: Sep 28, 2020
• Saturn: Sep 28, 2020
• Uranus: Oct 16, 2017
• Neptune: working on capturing it soon!
Equipment:
• Orion SkyQuest XT10 Dobsonian (for all except the comet)
• Canon 60D
Thanks to fellow Solar System Ambassador, Brandon Porter (Crystal Coast Stargazers) for helping process my raw video of Mars, Jupiter & Saturn!
Jupiter imaged on 6th February when at opposition
8" SCT f/10, 2.5x Powermate, ASI120mm Camera RRGB
The quality of the image has suffered at the higher magnification of the powermate as conditions were quite poor.
Processed using AS!2, Registax 6 and PS CS6
Jupiter on May 14th 2020 at 0810.1UT. My first try imaging Jupiter this year. Seeing was average for my location with below average transparency and some light upper air winds at times. The moon Europa can be seen passing over Jupiter with Ganymede on the right.
Io completes a transit of Jupiter. Video captured with a Mewlon 210 and processed with RegiStax. Around 10:00pm PDT and Jupiter at 25 degrees elevation.
“This Voyager 2 high resolution color image, taken 2 hours before closest approach, provides obvious evidence of vertical relief in Neptune's bright cloud streaks. These clouds were observed at a latitude of 29 degrees north near Neptune's east terminator. The linear cloud forms are stretched approximately along lines of constant latitude and the sun is toward the lower left. The bright sides of the clouds which face the sun are brighter than the surrounding cloud deck because they are more directly exposed to the sun. Shadows can be seen on the side opposite the sun. These shadows are less distinct at short wavelengths (violet filter) and more distinct at long wavelengths (orange filter). This can be understood if the underlying cloud deck on which the shadow is cast is at a relatively great depth, in which case scattering by molecules in the overlying atmosphere will diffuse light into the shadow. Because molecules scatter blue light much more efficiently than red light, the shadows will be darkest at the longest (reddest) wavelengths, and will appear blue under white light illumination. The resolution of this image is 11 kilometers (6.8 miles per pixel) and the range is only 157,000 kilometers (98,000 miles). The width of the cloud streaks range from 50 to 200 kilometers (31 to 124 miles), and their shadow widths range from 30 to 50 kilometers (18 to 31 miles). Cloud heights appear to be of the order of 50 kilometers (31 miles). This corresponds to 2 scale heights. The Voyager Mission is conducted by JPL for NASA's Office of Space Science and Applications.”
Above & image at:
photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00058
Credit: JPL Photojournal website
And/or, with the photograph’s impeccable provenance, the description possibly used in Mr. Burgess’s book “Far Encounter: The Neptune System”:
“Figure 4-6: Taken two hours before the spacecraft’s closest approach to Neptune, this image shows vertical relief in the cloud streaks. The linear cloud forms are stretched approximately along lines of constant latitude, and the Sun is toward the lower left. The bright sides of the clouds which face the Sun are brighter than the surrounding cloud deck because they are more directly exposed to the sun. Shadows can be seen on the side opposite the Sun. These shadows are less distinct at short ultraviolet wavelengths because they are cast on a lower cloud deck and scattering of light by the atmosphere above them diffuses light into the shadow. The shadows are darkest when observed in red light because molecules scatter the longer waves of red light less than blue or ultraviolet light. The widths of the cloud streaks range from 30 to 125 miles (50 to 200 km) and their heights appear to be about 30 miles (50 km) above the main cloud deck.”
The image was also the cover of the 1990 issue of “NASA Spinoff” magazine, by James Haggerty.
Field is about 9 degrees wide. Canon T6i with 135mm lens. One second exposure at F/2.5, ISO 400. Photo taken at 18:35 PST on 2/10, or 02:35 UT on 2/11. Redondo Beach, CA 34 North, 118 West (about).
The planets of our Solar System (excluding Earth for obvious reasons), captured in 2020 and 2021 with an 80mm refractor and a DSLR. I enjoyed the journey of pushing this typical beginner setup to its limit for planetary imaging. I “graduated” to a C6 and a dedicated planetary camera in 2022, and I’m hoping to create another Solar System composite soon with the best images from that setup. Can't believe I forgot to upload this until now!
Camera: Canon T3i
Telescope: Explore Scientific ED80 f/6.0 Apochromatic Refractor
Barlow: Antares 3x Triplet Barlow (effective magnification is 4.932x for 2373mm focal length at f/29.66)
Mount: Orion Sirius EQ-G
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Mercury
Shot details: 5,000 x 1/30 second ISO200 (best of 56,792)
Date: 2020/11/07
Location: Charlottesville, VA
Venus
Shot details: 7,500 x 1/100 second ISO100 (best of 44,985)
Date: 2020/05/04
Location: Coral Springs, FL
Mars
Shot details: 200 x 1/50 second ISO100 (best of 10,455)
Date: 2020/10/15
Location: Charlottesville, VA
Jupiter
Shot details: 1,000 x 1/30 second ISO1600 (best of 6,305)
Date: 2021/08/19
Location: Coral Springs, FL
Saturn
Shot details (moons): 3,600 x 1/5 second ISO1600 (best of 5,062)
Shot details (planet): 2,000 x 1/30 second ISO6400 (best of 183,714)
Date: 2021/07/25 and 2021/08/01
Location: Coral Springs, FL
Uranus
Shot details (moons): 8 x 60 seconds ISO1600 (best of 36)
Shot details (planet): 3,000 x 1/5 second ISO6400 (best of 3,314)
Date: 2020/10/18
Location: Charlottesville, VA
Neptune
Shot details (moon): 7 x 60 seconds ISO1600 (best of 27)
Shot details (planet): 1,500 x 1/5 second ISO6400 (best of 1,884)
Date: 2020/11/08
Location: Charlottesville, VA
Saturn on May 14th 2020. My first try imaging Saturn this year. Couldn't quite get the colors right in the rings and could be because the Sun was rising when the data was captured. Seeing was average for my location with below average transparency and some light upper air winds at times.
Luna Menguando, procesado sobre referencia de crater Hadley C de 6 km de diametro, hay muchos crateres de 4 km que se distinguen. Son 130 imagenes Raw pasadas a tiff y postprocesadas como una imagen planetaria, quedo mas definida que los videos apilados de la misma noche.
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2011 Jan 16 - 16h32 UT -
exp.time : 1/500 sec - ISO 100 - focal: 300 mm -
no stacking - cccr exp50 p70
Merope Nebula
Telescope: ZWO Triplet refractor
Total exposure: 40 minutes
Total integration: 245x10" subs
Filters : UV/IR cut
First attempt to capture the Lunar Exosphere on April 8, 2022
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello
The phenomenon, known since 1988, requires some specific conditions for photographic recording.
Meanwhile, a very clear evening without haze.
The Moon around the first or last quarter, both to have the tail at 90° with respect to the sight potion, and to make visible the faint shadow due to the blocking of the resonance florescence. This draws a kind of darker streak in the exosphere.
Combining 8 guided images on the moon of 30 seconds at ISO 3200 and the use of two coupled low-Na-band filters with Helios 58mm lens, the shadow appears to have been registered despite the interference of the spikes.
A good discussion is in this recent paper:
link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-022-00871-w
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More average seeing, which is about as good as I can expect in the rainy season. But even without fine details, this still looks good, with a nice contrast of the dust-filled Hellas Planitia, and dark and light Martian surface, and the blue northern clouds.
Mars was magnitude -1.11 with angular diameter of 14.83", and was 93.0% illuminated.
“You are lovers no more. Your solemn words spoken here before witnesses mean from this moment forth you are one: Wife and Husband. Let no one come betwixt you and keep life,” (From MACROLIS: The Marriage of the Imperators.) Who are the Imperators?
In the 22nd century the Crown Princess of Imperial Africa and the Golden Organet son of the First Citizens from the ice moon Enceladus consumate their love before the great and good from two star systems: the solar system and Alpha Centauri. Their marriage will make them Imperators over all Enhanced people in the Milky Way galaxy. "Love Will Make Heroes of Us All"
During their coronation Macrolis is abducted and taken to the Invincible City in the Alpha Centauri triple star system. Although impossible Silafrica vows that she will rescue Macrolis. Her oath sparks the War of the Star Systems. The easy way to learn about The Imperators: www.machitmedia.com
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat 51.542 N Long 3.593 W
Some images from my astronomical observations log book.
Obtained using my Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian, Tal 2x Barlow Lens & ZWO ASI 120MC Astronomical Imaging Camera.
Processed with Registax & G.I.M.P.
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat 51.542 N Long 3.593 W
Tripod mounted Canon SX160 IS at ISO 100, f5, 1/6s Zoom at 52mm.
Levels adjusted with G.I.M.P.
Poor seeing and light wind for this stacked exposure of Jupiter with red spot and moons. 8" Newtonian and 1.8X Barlow.
With C11 and ASI 290MC for crominance + QHY290Mono +IRPASS 685 for luminance.
Stack of 15000 frames. Captured in Tarragona, 09/28/2020 at 21:35 UT.
Taken with a Skywatcher ED80 Refractor fitted with a Baader Astrosolar Filter and a Canon 600D at prime focus.
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope had previously discovered two small moons — Nix and Hydra — orbiting Pluto alongside its larger moon Charon. They would add two more in 2011 and 2012, bringing the icy dwarf planet's total number of moons to five.
Astronomers using Hubble to research the Pluto system in advance of 2015's New Horizons flyby found two objects, P4 in 2011 and P5 in 2012. The two moons would later be renamed Kerberos and Styx, respectively. This image is annotated to show the orbits of Pluto's more recently discovered moons. P5 is circled.
The dwarf planet’s entire moon system is believed to have formed by a collision between Pluto and another planet-sized body early in the history of the solar system. The smashup flung material that coalesced into the family of moons observed around Pluto.
For more information, visit: hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2012-32
Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Showalter (SETI Institute)