Sunday, January 19, 2025

Comet C2024 G3 Atlas survives

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Comet C2024 G3 Atlas survived it's close pass with the sun, causing a stir in the astronomy community as comets surviving such a trip te...
Saturday, January 4, 2025

second jupiter of the year 2025-01-03 05:39.2 UTC

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 still more good seeing, this time through light fog.   The great red spot can be seen just peaking off the right side (better shown in the ...
Thursday, January 2, 2025

first jupiter of the year 2025-01-02 06:03.2 UTC

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another night of good seeing, managed to get the barlow out for 2x magnification before the fog rolled in first of the year technic ally 1/2...
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Happy New Year. Jupiter 12/31/24 3:48.6 UTC

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happy new year all.   the region between the 2 blue festoons was blazing away through medium to heavy fog.   you can also see a recent storm...
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Jupiter, Ganymede shadow transit 11/10/2024 08:41.5 UTC

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Here's Ganymede's shadow transiting Jupiter on 11/10/24: Jupiter 2024-11-10 08:41.5 UTC My goals for the evening were quick test sho...
Sunday, November 3, 2024

carpe noctem, saturn leads the planet parade

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depressed about the time change? get out there and enjoy the night.   saturn is perfectly located for early evening viewing followed by jupi...
Monday, October 28, 2024

Comet C2023 A3 Tsuchinshan–ATLAS wrap up and an aurora fail

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Stacked my comet images to see if i could pull out the anti-tail ...no luck :( though you can see a bit more of the tail, especially to the ...