Archive for February, 2010
Sky this Week for Feb 21 to 27, 2010
by Vern on Feb.23, 2010, under Sky this Week, Video
Mars on Feb 16 evening
by Vern on Feb.17, 2010, under Astronomy, Planetary
Mars on Feb 16 at 10:40 pm MST. Clear, very good transparenty and quite steady skies again tonight probably around 6/10, temp.30 deg. F. Celestron Nexstar11, 2.5X Powermate, DMK21AU04.AS, LRGB filters. Shot luminance image at 60 fps for 100 sec, and then 90 sec for RGB channels. Aligned and stacked with Registax5, channels merged and enhanced with Photoshop CS4.
Sky this Week for Feb. 14 to 20, 2010
by Vern on Feb.16, 2010, under Sky this Week, Video
Saturn on Feb 16
by Vern on Feb.16, 2010, under Astronomy, Planetary
Saturn at 12:42 am this morning.
Celestron Nexstar11, 2.5X Powermate, DMK21AU04.AS camera, LRGB filters, 3 minuites at 15 fps for luminance and 3 minuates at 7.5 fps for RGB layers. Turbulence between 6 and 7/10, transparency very good, no wind, 18 deg.F.
