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In the image above the SUN was taken with the Orion 4.5 in. Starblast with a sun filter and Jupiter was imaged by an ASI 183MC camera and my 10 inch Meade SCT.
Dark skies tonight 8-31 but seeing conditions only fair. Imaged Saturn and Jupiter the latter showing Io’s shadow (arrow in pic below). Camera Orion 6.3 M pixel and scope Meade 10 in. SCT
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Saturday night Aug 4th at the RAC outreach event we observed a ‘carbon star’ in Aquila. Below is the map Josef has provided on our home page along with a photo taken Sunday Aug 5th from my backyard of carbon star V Aquilae. The cropped photo aligns with the stars V Aquilae and 40 on the map and was taken with the Orion Mini 6.3 color camera and 60 mm guide scope, with a 5 second exposure.
wow, just got back in town and see we lost Dean Johnson! very sad news indeed. missed the meeting but if
anyone brought up doing a StarBQ in his honor i’m in. to the stars Dean!!
jimAddendum:Â In my post of Sept. 6th, I listed the magnitude of a star as ’89’ in the photo when in fact it should have been ’80’ as in Josef’s map.
I called Eagle Bluff today. The parking lot will be available for our use on both September 23 and 24. I will be back in touch with them later next week as the weather situation develops and post on this thread again. Sounded like they would appreciate having an idea as to when members would be coming. They will have a couple of groups there; I assured Doc that as always we are happy to have them come out and share the skies with us.
On a sad note, I shared the news of Dean’s passing with him. Doc was pretty surprised since he had spoken with Dean about possible observing the last weekend of August.
Here’s another image of the carbon star V Aquilae taken on 9-19 at 1 am (or so). The same camera and guide scope as on the 9-6 picture was used. The exposure time was 4 seconds and I used a different program Sharp Cap Pro. The star colors are closer to the visual appearance in the telescope.
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Great picture, Bob! Yes, the color is much closer to the visual experience. I put update2 at https://rochesterskies.org/carbon-star-v-aql/.
Sky should be clear tonight but it’s quite windy. I’ll probably go to Keller and see how things are. If winds die down later tonight could be good observing.
Bob
Took my 10 x 50 binocs to Keller Sunday night 9/25. Nice clear and dark sky especially towards the zenith. Milky Way was easily seen from N to SE. Binocular highlights included M22 M13 M3 M5 M8 Double Cluster M31 and M11. The last (Wild Duck cluster in Scutum) had the appearance of globular with a bright star in front of it in binocs. Seen with Starblast at 65x clearly showed it to be compact open star cluster.
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After the public observing tonight at Elgin I took another look at Jupiter and lo and behold there was a moon shadow and the GRS. I think one can see the moon casting the shadow as well in the stacked image below. (taken with 10 inch SCT, 6.3 megapixel camera).
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Bob, this is great picture of Jupiter! You should use club 10″ SCT more often.
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