The moon on Saturday evening, 8:10 pm MST at lunation 9.
Image taken with Celestron Nexstar 11, F6.3 focal reducer, and Canon Xti Camera (ISO 200, 1/325 sec). Aligned and stacked 40 images with Registax4. Sky was mostly clear, high thin haze, temperature 12°F, no wind, and good transparency. The forecast for the upcoming week is for clouds and snow, probably no imaging for me for a while. I can’t complain, the last few days of steady air have been fun!
Moon on Friday Jan 26, 2007 at lunation 7.89
Image taken from Louisville, Co at 6:28 pm MST with Celestron Nexstar11 telescope , F6.3 focal reducer and Canon Xti camera. Alligned and stacked 40/50 images with Registax4. Sky was clear, no clouds, turblence very good 7/10, transparency very good, temperature 34°F, no wind — about as good as it gets around here!
Here is a closeup of the Straight Wall or Rupes Recta area with Phillips Toucam at Cassegrain focus.
Activity is increasing lately with coronal mass ejects being seen off the east limb yesterday. A new region is rotating over the east limb, though its not probably the one causing the excitement.
Image taken with 50mm SolarScope Ltd. H-alpha telescope, Televue 2.5X Powermate and Canon Xti camera. Clear skies, turbulence 6/10, no wind, temperature around 50°F.
Image of Saturn on Jan 24, 2007 about 11pm MST. After processing some moon images from earlier in the evening, I realized that the turbulence was much better than I thought as Registax was making only 1 and 2 pixel adjustments (about 3 or 4 pixels less than usual). The air wasn’t quite as steady as earlier, but stil quite good about 6/10. I had checked collimation earlier in the evening and it was pretty good, though in hindsight I should have tweaked it some and probably would have gotten better images.
Image taken from Louisville, CO with Celestron Nexstar11 telescope, Televue 2.5X Powermate, and Phillips Toucam 840K webcam About 2500/3000 frames aligned and stacked with Registax4. Sky was clear, turbulence 6/10, transparency very good, no wind, and temperature 30°F.
Image of the moon tonight around 7pm MST at lunation 5.9 days.
Image from Louisville, CO at 6:45 pm MST. Celestron Nexstar 11 telescope, F6.3 focal reducer, and Canon Xti camera. Camera set at ISO 400 at 1/400 sec exposure. Sky was clear, turbulence very good 7/10, no wind, termperature 40°F.
Below is crop of above image at full scale around Mare Nectaris. Craters Theophilus, Cyrillus, and Catharina are prominent.
