LEFT: South is up
in the first CCD shot 1/10th of a second long. (f/30) Io is to the right,
casting it's shadow near the GRS. If you turn your monitor brightness way
down, you'll more clearly see the double-looping festoon in the Equatorial
zone, and the Great Red Spot will become more prominent. July 6, 1998
RIGHT:: A detailed
view completely on the other side of the globe, highlighting the disturbance
in the Southern Equatorial Belt. Two shots averaged, 4/10sec f/40. August
10, 1998
Latest Mars images will
be posted here (click on the picture) . The latest was actually taken with
the 6.1" EDF, June 12, 1999. It's a mix of 5 images taken at f/35 and f/40,
at about 01:45 06/13/99GMT...putting it near longitude 85 I believe. It's
tough because it is less than 1/10th the area size of Jupiter.
North is up in this moon
CCD image, at approximately 400x. Mountains and craters south of Plato,
but for awhile I got lost! Thanks to Derek Wong for identifying Mons Piton..the
mountain upper left, Crater Aristillus is left center with Autolycus to
the south, , 1/2 of Crater Cassini up top, Crater Archimedes lower left,
and the mountain range is Montes Caucasus, bordered on the right by Mare
Serenitatis! f/30 on the 5.1" scope. Summer 1998
M51, the "Whirlpool" Galaxy,
taken at f/6, 8min. composite. 1/99
M106 shows embedded odd
shaped spiral arms - 10 minutes using two "slew and sum" images. 2/99
M81, a difficult processing
job taking a full day. Taken at f/4.5, 16min. composite. 2/99
NGC4565 is one of the prettiest
galaxies in the heavens, this is a composite of 6, 2 minute shots at f/6.
Gibbous moon. 2/99
M13, the "Hercules cluster"
as imaged in Jan. 1999 in twilight and full moonlight! The dark lanes are
visible. The "Y" dark lane points up and to the left. There is another
very narrow dark lane (upper right of core, look close) that I thought
was a processing error, but I have found it on the raw images, and on my
previous images with other scopes, and in some other high res. M13 shots
on the web....just not as pronounced. Also, the CROSS of stars is
noted (also called the little propeller, as opposed to the "Y" dark lane,
the big propeller) bottom left of the core, and can be detected visually
as well in larger aperture. I have found this feature on all the best M13
images on the web. This is ONLY a one minute image,dark frame was subtracted.
A/P 600 E mount.
M63 sure looked nice, despite
a gibbous moon, 7 shots totalling 9 minutes at f/6, taken 2/99
I saved the best for last..
M3, taken during full moon, 2 minute shot. 1/99
