As opposition is nearing Mars is about as big as it is going to get for taking pictures. I finally got my Svbony SV305 astrocam working (sort of) with Sharpcap. Not entirely there yet. The picture was taken at prime focus and 4000 frames stacked. Need to buy an extra external hard drive because the…
The first capture of Saturn I am sort-of happy about. Specs: variable projection 6mm with Canon DSLR movie mode. 3x 3minute videos joined in PIPP for a total of 14000 frames of which just over half were kept and half of those stacked in AS3. Wavelets in Registax are still black magic to me, might…
The Great Red Spot is a persistent storm on Jupiter’s southern hemisphere. It has been continuously observed since 1878. There are some earlier observations of a storm on Jupiter dating back to the 1600s. If it is the same storm it has been raging on for over 350 years or so. Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is 1.3…
Mars is nearing opposition on October 13th (where it is closest to Earth). This happens every two years. This is also the reason we saw several spacecrafts to Mars being launched in July with one being delayed for 2 years as they missed the window. During this brief time the delta V (acceleration energy and…
I started like most people, holding my phone over the eyepiece trying to snap a sharp picture (spoiler: doesn’t work (maybe for the moon)). Most of the time you will end up with a bright blob like in the first picture below. You will however be able to snap the Galilean moons (second picture). The…