Sky this Week

Sky this Week for June 28 to July 4, 2009

Vern — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:59:35 +0000

Sky this Week for June 21 to June 27, 2009

Vern — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:09:11 +0000

Sky this Week for June 14 to June 20, 2009

Vern — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:07:24 +0000

Sky this Week Video for June 6 to June 13, 2009

Vern — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:34:50 +0000

Sky this Week for May 31 to June 6, 2009

Vern — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:05:08 +0000

The Moon dominates the night sky this week. There is 0 hours and 0 minutes of astronomical darkness on Saturday evening. If you are fortunate to have clear skies point your scope toward the Moon and locate some of its domes, valley, peaks, and craters. For the Denver area there aren’t any ISS visible passes and no Jupiter Red Spot crossings to view either.

Interactive solar map

Vern — Sun, 31 May 2009 07:01:17 +0000

Checkout the interactive solarmap at my other website. You may now select a date from Jan 2, 1996 to present and see what regions were visible on the Sun on that date. (Note that the Drupal date popup module that I used annoyingly requires that you actually click on date rather than just typing it in). For example select June 1, 2000 and you’ll see quite a few more regions listed than you do now at solar minimum.

Sun in halpha on May 28, 2009

Vern — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:48:55 +0000

Sun from around 11 am in h-alpha. A couple nice prominences visible on NW and SW limb. Its been a long while since I’ve done h-alpha. I seem to forgotten most of the processing required. Nonetheless here it is. Solarscope halpha scope and DMK21AF04.AS video camera. Aligned and stacked with Registax5, compositted and false colored in Photoshop.

Jupiter on May 28, 2009

Vern — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:34:39 +0000

Image of Jupiter at 5:09 am (11:09 UT) this morning. Good conditions for a change, clear sky, no wind, transparency very good, and turbulence around 6/10. Used the Phillips Toucam 840k at cassegrain focus of Celestron Nexstar 11. Image oriented north up, east left (more or less). Aligned and stacked 80% of 1400 frames, wavelet sharpened (26-16-1-1-1-1) using Registax5, color adjusted, resized, cropped with Photoshop.

Sky this Week May 24 to May 30, 2009

Vern — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:58:21 +0000

Sky this Week for May 17 to 23, 2009

Vern — Sat, 23 May 2009 08:16:44 +0000