Telescopes 'worthless' by 2050

As reported on the BBC News site.

:-(

M13

M92

M56

M57

M57 from last night using my friend Ray Byrne's Starlight Express MX5C CCD camera.

Jupiter 23rd July 2006

Top/Middle: IR passing filter.
Lower: IR/UV filter.

Noctilucent Clouds.

I saw these strange clouds the other night, and I've just found out what they are via APOD. See the 18th July 2006 picture

Noctilucent Clouds on Wiki and a view from the ISS.

Jupiter 14th July 2006

Jupiter 13th July 2006

Red spot Jr. seems to be almost directly under the GRS at the moment.

Terrible seeing tonight, image was going all over the place, didn't know what to focus on.

Jet passing the Moon - animated gif

Jupiter 12th July 2006

Jupiter 11th July 2006

Back to the Moon.

Some Mars images re-processed.

The Moon on Leanne's birthday - 4th July 2006

M13 Cluster in Hercules

M13 is a Globular Cluster a little under 25,000 light years from Earth. It is just visible to the naked eye and well outside the plane of the Galaxy. It takes its name from its native constellation of Hercules.
Ref. Esky.

Faint Jupiter moon.

I spent about half an hour observing Jupiter last night.
One thing I did notice was a very faint moon just underneath and indicated in this simulator image.
I can't for the life of me find what it was. It was very faint, serveral magnitudes below the brightness of the other moons. Could have been a star, but I don't think so.

High altitude clouds earlier this evening.

Jupiter & Europa 28th June 2006

Top; 4x Barlow and ToUcam, at higher than usual 15fps.



Below; 26mm EP and 'Canon Powershot' hand held exposure.

Jupiter 27th June 2006

Starlight Express CCD camera

I borrowed my friends Starlight Express MX5C CCD camera last night.
Wow! to use it is a whole new discipline.
Still... "Small steps".

Craters re-processed using MAP

Here are some craters from way back... I re-processed them using the MAP method of multi alignment points.
All images taken with the humble old ToUcam. We don't need no stinking firewire camera! well, we do actually, but I can't afford one just yet ;-)
See... this is why you need to backup your AVI's onto DVD.

Jupiter & Europa transit 21th June 2006

cylindrical projection map (small)

Here's a very small cylindrical projection map, taken from the Io transit sequence below. Just over an hours worth of data.

Jupiter & Io animation

Jupiter 17th June 2006

Contrails

Contrails... don't you just love'em?... No!

Jupiter 16th May 2006

Here's the first image from the 16th June sequence... see, it's still light at 9:20 PM. I took this in a perfect blue sky. And an image taken later.

Ganymede

This was taken using a 4 x Imagemate Barlow.

Jupiter & Io sequence 16th June 2006

I took this sequence with my IR (not blocking) filter.