Vern’s Weblog

Several of us from the Boulder and  Longmont Astronomy club set up our scopes to show the moon and saturn for a student astronomy club at the Boulder Day School in north Boulder, Colorado.  I demonstrated some of my imaging equipment to them and here are the resulting images. The sky was clear, temperature around 45°F; no wind; transparency was very good; and turbulence was good (6/10). 

Saturn image was taken with Celestron Nexstar11, Televue 2.5X Powermate, and Phillips 740K webcam.

Below image of the moon was taken with Celestron Nexstar11, F6.2 focal reducer, and Canon 300D.

Some excellent prominences were visible on the east limb today. A thin band was suspended between the upper and lower prominences – an enormous distance. It can barely be seen in the image below, it was much more prominent in the eyepiece. The sky was mostly clear this morning  in Lousiville, CO with a few thin clouds now and then; temperature was 74°F; winds were gusting to 20 mph;  and there was poor turbulence (4/10). Equipment used was Solarvue50 H-alpha telescope, Televue 2.5X Powermate, and Canon 300D camera.

 No spots were visible in white light.  Equipment used was Stellarvue A1010, baader filter, Televue 2.5X Powermate, and Canon 300D camera.