Plato & Clavius mosaic from the 28th March 2007

The Moon Highlands BIG mosaic 28th March 2007

Click here for full size version. I had good seeing throughout the whole of the session of 20 images, each produced from a 1000 frame avi.

Clavius detail: This was the first captured image from the above, slightly enlarged and enhanced.

Tycho

Copernicus 28th March 2007

4 image mosaic using 2.5x Powermate.

Plato & Alpine Valley

Strange Tycho

Ptolemaeus and Plato

Saturn

4x Imagemate & 2500 frames.

Ina Caldera... just

Ina Caldera I've been trying to track this one down for ages, I think I've got something, the seeing wasn't very good though, a lot of high frequency interference.


I'm not too sure that I'm picking up some vibration from the nearby A419 road :-( It seemed very busy tonight.

Here's a better view by Wes Higgins.

Hadley Rille top left.

Saturn and moons 25th March 2007

Here is a composite of Saturn and its moons taken tonight.

Update

I've just updated a load of Lunar images from April 2006. Twas a good session :-

Saturn from last year

I was sorting out my DVD archives and came across a few Saturn AVI's that I haven't processed before.
Here's an old one from last year.

Moon 21st March 2007

20 image mosaic... reduced a little bit ;-)

Moon & Venus 21st March 2007

Earthshine 21st March 2007

Picture taken through 32mm EP.

Composite of an under and over exposed image taken through 32mm EP.

Victoria crater fly over video

Here's another nice video taken at Victoria crater by MRO's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE).

Wohba!

This is nice... The first Quicktime VR from another planet!

This picture was taken by the NASA robot "Spirit" over the course of 5 months. The "McMurdo panorama" is a combination of more than 1400 individual pictures which were taken when the lack of sunlight didn't allow the rover to move during the Marsian winter.

Great news... I got a picture published.

The April edition of Astronomy Now magazine.
Under the 'Picture Gallery' section... whoopee!!! :-)

Saturn 14th March 2007

Slightly better seeing tonight.

I have actually been capturing every night that it's been clear this week or so... but the seeing was not good enough to publish.

Saturn 7th March 2007

Saturn 6th March 2007

Fair seeing tonight. Just managed to squeeze this out in between the clouds ;-)

Saturn video.

Here's a small portion of video from my best Saturn to date, just to show you what the seeing conditions were like.

DivX stuff again.

And this is the little Red Spot! New Horizons image.

This is a mosaic of three New Horizons images of Jupiter's Little Red Spot, taken with the spacecraft's Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) camera at 17:41 Universal Time on February 26 from a range of 3.5 million kilometers (2.1 million miles). The image scale is 17 kilometers (11 miles) per pixel, and the area covered measures 33,000 kilometers (20,000 miles) from top to bottom, two and one-half times the diameter of Earth.
The Little Red Spot, a smaller cousin of the famous Great Red Spot, formed in the past decade from the merger of three smaller Jovian storms, and is now the second-largest storm on Jupiter. About a year ago its color, formerly white, changed to a reddish shade similar to the Great Red Spot, perhaps because it is now powerful enough to dredge up reddish material from deeper inside Jupiter. These are the most detailed images ever taken of the Little Red Spot since its formation, and will be combined with even sharper images taken by New Horizons 10 hours later to map circulation patterns around and within the storm.

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

Lunar eclipse from 3rd March 2007

Here is a short video showing the first half of last nights Lunar eclipse.

Using a Canon Powershot handheld at a 32mm EP.

Using Paintshop Pro to collate and align the images and Sony Vegas to produce the video.

DivX format.

More Saturn from Cassini... very science fiction.

Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science InstituteReleased: March 1, 2007

Amazing Saturn image from Cassini.

This view is a mosaic of 36 images -- that is, 12 separate sets of red, green and blue images -- taken over the course of about 2.5 hours, as Cassini scanned across the entire main ring system.
The view looks toward the unlit side of the rings from about 40 degrees above the ringplane.
The images in this natural color view were obtained with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Jan. 19, 2007 at a distance of approximately 1.23 million kilometers (764,000 miles) from Saturn. Image scale is 70 kilometers (44 miles) per pixel.

Mega image here.

Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science InstituteReleased: March 1, 2007

Alpine Valley 27th Feb 2007

You can just about see the small rille going up the middle... not as good as I'd like though ;-)

Jupiter animation - New Horizons

Jupiter captured by the New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on January 9, 2007, when the spacecraft was about 80 million kilometers (49.6 million miles) from the giant planet.

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

Copernicus 27th Feb 2007

4 image mosaic.

Clavius re-sampled 1.5 x

...and using 6 point MAP in Registax.

Video from Clavius capture.

Click on image to see a small portion of video from the Clavius capture the other night
This shows the seeing conditions for the 26th Feb 2007 session.

DivX

Various Moon from 26th Feb 2007

4 image mosaic, 2.5x Powermate.

4 image mosaic, the lower right quadrant is a bit duff! the seeing was getting pretty bad by then.

The seeing wasn't really up to using my 4x Imagemate Barlow... but I'd thought I'd give it a go with Pitatus here.

New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager - Jupiter.

The New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager took this 2-millisecond exposure of Jupiter at 04:41:04 UTC on January 24, 2007. The spacecraft was 57 million kilometers (35.3 million miles) from Jupiter, closing in on the giant planet at 41,500 miles (66,790 kilometers) per hour. At right are the moons Io (bottom) and Ganymede; Ganymede's shadow creeps toward the top of Jupiter's northern hemisphere.
Two of Jupiter's largest storms are visible; the Great Red Spot on the western (left) limb of the planet, trailing the Little Red Spot on the eastern limb, at slightly lower latitude. The Great Red Spot is a 300-year old storm more than twice the size of Earth. The Little Red Spot, which formed over the past decade from the merging of three smaller storms, is about half the size of its older and "greater" counterpart.
From New Horizons website
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

Mission: Rosetta flyby of Mars.

True-colour image of Mars seen by OSIRIS.

From the ESA site; The first true-colour image generated using the OSIRIS orange (red), green and blue colour filers. The image was acquired on 24 February at 19:28 CET from a distance of about 240 000 km; image resolution is about 5 km/pixel.

ESA site.

Photo Credits: ESA © 2007 MPS for OSIRIS Team.

Cassini Saturn image 20th Feb 2007

Here's a lovely image from the Cassini website showing the south pole.

Credit: CICLOPS/Space Science InstituteBoulder, CO

Moon from 22nd Feb 2007

Here's a couple from the 22nd, I wasn't going to process them, but they weren't as bad as I thought. Seeing wasn't that great, but it's the first time it's been clear for bloody ages!

Saturn from 4th Feb re-processed.

Re-processed using MAP processing in Registax 4. 5 Alignment points, 2000 frames. Re-sampled at 1.5 times.