Astromick

Sunday, October 08, 2006

Various from 7th & 8th Oct 2006

Highlands 7th Oct 2006

Highland 6 image pan. 2.5x Tele Vue Powermate, Toucam Pro.

Messier & Messier A 8th Oct 2006

I took this with a Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate and a Celestron 2x Barlow together. The AVI was 3000 frames taken at 10fps. Most of it looked very blurrred/grainy and out of focus, but it processed to this. This image is shrunk by 75% to make it look a bit sharper.

The seeing was fair at times, but mostly rubbish.

Saturday, October 07, 2006

Sunspot 7th Oct 2006

Taken at prime focus with IR filter.

Friday, October 06, 2006

Full Moon (almost) 6th Oct 2006

Thursday, October 05, 2006

Gassendi and Schiller from 4th Oct 2006

Gassendi: 4 image mosaic, 2x Barlow.

Schiller: 2x Barlow

Copernicus & Aristarchus 4th Oct 2006

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Cleomedes from 10th Sept 2006

Cleomedes is a prominent lunar crater located in the northeast part of the visible Moon, to the north of Mare Crisium. It is surrounded by rough ground with multiple crater impacts. The irregular Tralles crater is intruding into the northwest rim. To the east is the Delmotte crater. North of Cleomeses is a triple-crater formation with Burckhardt crater occupying the center.
The outer wall of this crater is heavily worn and eroded, especially along the southern part of the wall. The 'Cleomedes C' crater lies across the south-southwest rim. The crater floor is nearly flat, with a small central peak to the north of the mid-point, forming a linear ridge toward the north-northeast. There are several notable craterlets on the floor, including a pair of overlapping craters just inside the northwest rim.
A rille named the Rima Cleomedes crosses the northern floor, running southeast from the northwest rim. This rille branches in a fork after crossing the crater mid-line. Smaller clefts lie in the southeast part of the floor.
Wikipedia

Thursday, September 28, 2006

Atlas & Hercules 10th Sept 2006

Atlas is a prominent lunar impact crater that is located in the northeast part of the Moon, to the southeast of Mare Frigoris. Just to the west is the slightly smaller but still prominent Hercules crater. Northeast of Atlas is the large Endymion crater.
The inner wall of the Atlas crater multiply terraced and the edge slumped, forming a sharp-edged lip. This is a floor-fractured crater with a rough and hilly interior that has a lighter albedo than the surroundings. Floor-fractures are usually created as a result of volcanic modifications.
There are two dark patches along the inner edge of the walls; one along the north edge and another besides the southeast edges. A system of slender clefts named the Rimae Atlas crosses the crater floor, and were created by volcanism. Along the north and northeastern inner sides are a handful of dark-halo craters, most likely formed due to eruptions. Around the mid-point is a cluster of low central hills arranged in a circular formation.
Hercules is a prominent crater located in the northwest part of the Moon, to the east of Atlas crater. It lies along the east edge of a southward extension in the Mare Frigoris. To the west across the mare is the Bürg crater. To the south is the ruined crater Williams.
The interior walls of Hercules have multiple terraces, and there is a small outer rampart. The crater floor has been flooded by lava in the past, and contains several areas of low albedo. The central peak has been buried, leaving only a low hill near the mid-point. The satellite crater 'Hercules G' crater is located prominently just to the south of the center. The small crater 'Hercules E' lies along the southern rim of Hercules.
In the past this crater has been reported as the site of some transient lunar phenomenon.
Wikipedia

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

LPOD 26th Sept 2006

Great! I made 'Lunar Photo of the day'

Monday, September 18, 2006

Televue 5 x Powermate

I ordered a Powermate at the weekend from Telescope House.

It's coming tomorrow, I'll tell ya all about it. :-)

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Alpine Valley 12th Sept. 2006

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Seeing.

I found a golden rule to be untrue last night. The golden rule that I'm talking about is:-

'Seeing is bad after rain or a storm'

We had thunder and lightning storms yesterday evening, in fact a house just down the road from where I live was struck by lightning, and caught the roof alight.

I went out last night about 3 am to do some Moon imaging. There was a fair amount of cloud about, but in between some clear patches. To my amazement the 'seeing' was very good.

Just goes to show.