Mars November 2020 – Not Long After Opposition
My first planetary capture session of any note for several years…!
Category: Solar System
The ISS Transits the Moon – 1st June 2020
A transit across the face of the moon by our favourite 420-ton hunk of scientific loveliness…
Jupiter – Captured 21st-24th May 2017
This is a set of three shots of Jupiter captured in May 2017. All consist of the best 4000 of 8000 frames captured in Firecapture with my ASI120MC planetary camera through the 8″ LX90ACF...
Saturn and the Curse of (Astronomical) Seeing
Last night, a clear night got me out into the garden to attempt a proper imaging run on Saturn. Unfortunately, the ringed wonder isn’t best placed at the moment for imaging from my...
My First Solar Images, and How I Got Them…
Today, I had an opportunity to go out and attempt my first solar imaging session. A couple of months ago I constructed a Baader Solar film filter for the objective end of my Starwave...
A Triplet of Worlds – Jupiter, Saturn and Mars on Show – 17/05/2014
On 17th May 2014, SEKAS (South East Kent Astronomical Society – www.sekas.co.uk), the astro society of which I am a member, held a public observing session at Western Heights in Dover. It was an...
Saturn and Mars – 14/05/2014
Had a pretty good planetary imaging session last night. I managed to grab my first Saturn of the year. Despite still being fairly low down in the sky at the time it was visible to...
Jupiter and Io – 15/04/2014: The King of the Solar System
On 15th April, I grabbed a new shot of Jupiter with the ASI120MC, which as surpassed everything I’ve ever done on this amazing planet up until now. This really shows the difference that better...
First Light With a New Planetary Camera: The ZWO ASI120MC on Mars and Jupiter – 13/04/2014
I’ve just become the owner of a new planetary camera – a ZW Optics ASI120MC. This post is the fruits of my first efforts with it. Unfotunately, on a night of terrible seeing (the...
Mars – It’s Tiny!
Just a quick post to show my first ever shot of Mars. At the moment, it’s only 11 arc seconds in diameter (Jupiter is currently over 45). Take into account the bad seeing and...
Jupiter – Colour and Mono comparison
A quick post to illustrate the differences between processing data from the same night from a Toucam Pro and a QHY5v Mono taken through my f/6 Newtonian with a 2x Barlow. The left pic...
Jupiter in Glorious Mono with the QHY5v – 13/02/2014
As well as the moon, I targeted Jupiter last night. Jupiter is currently in a very favourable position – nice and high in the sky, and closer to Earth than its been for a...
Jupiter – 09/01/2014 – From Murky Capture to Reasonable Result
This is just a little experiment to see what I could get out of an extremely jumpy bit of footage I took through my 200p Newtonian with a 2x Barlow lens when up at...
Zipping through Saturn’s Ring Plane
One thing I’ve always found fascinating about astronomy is the fact you’re looking at the universe as it is (or as it was when the light left whatever you’re currently looking at anyway!). The...
Jupiter imaging progress
A post showing my progress on imaging Jupiter over the course of a few months at the end of 2012 / beginning of 2013.
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