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Friday 29 November 2013

Visual astronomy. Lacroix and Fourier craters Labeled Images.

293 frames at 84% best quality in Registax.
276 frames at 84% best quality in Registax.
2 frames at 100% best quality in Registax.


Although these craters appear as oval, they look like that because the image captures a region on the western edge of the Moon, west of Mare Humorum. Begining with this area are developed only hights reaching the unseen Moon from Earth, where we don't find low areas with large and dark basins, but only deep craters and rough areas.
In the picture below, the craters are labeled with their names, each with a color and those with names A, B, C, ..., are satellite craters of the main crater.
Listed here, are some large craters, as Fourier (52 km), Lacroix (38 km) and Palmieri (41 km).


Age of the Moon: 27 days
Distance: 360.270 km
Phase: 94.6% (0% = new, 100% = complete)


Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, Plossl 20 mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Camera: Sony CX130
Filter: no
Date: 02/07/2012
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: Registax, FastStone Image Viewer


Thursday 28 November 2013

Comet ISON has died. R.I.P.

After leaving the Oort Cloud at the edge of the Solar System, has dared to touch the Sun. The nucleus of the comet seems to have melted near the Sun.



 As the comet approached the Sun, the ice began to melt and boil with dust particles.


Wednesday 27 November 2013

Visual astronomy. Hainzel crater on the Moon.

461 frames at 79% best quality in Registax.


Hainzel crater (70 km), 3 km in depth, is a strange shaped one, located at the southern Mare Humorum Basin. This is affected by other impacts, and generally, looked as a whole, we can distinguish three impacts that formed​​ it. Inside Hainzel, there are two other craters called Hainzel A (53 km) and C (38 km).

Their floor is a rugged terrain with peaks centrally located, and Hainzel A, has the peculiarity that its inner edges have terraces which are evident, reaching the floor at its central peak.

Above Hainzel, notice four craters in the chain formation of approximately the same size. These are its other satellite craters called Hainzel K (14 km), B (15 km), L (16 km) and R (19 km).
Northeast of Hainzel, Palus Epidemiarum is a smooth region, which has an undefined shape, with a few craters on its surface, the biggest being Capuanus (60 km) a flooded crater that identifies the shade of the plateau .





Age of the Moon: 27 days
Distance: 360.270 km
Phase: 94.6% (0% = new, 100% = complete)


Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, Plossl 20 mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Camera: Sony CX130
Filter: no
Date: 02/07/2012
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: Registax, FastStone Image Viewer

If you like, you can see some interesting images of the crater in other lighting conditions here: Hainzel Moon crater.
To see a short video of crater Hainzel: Video-Hainzel and Capuanus lunar craters through telescope.





Monday 25 November 2013

Galilean moons Configuration around Jupiter.

These are quick video captures of a clip made by the telescope and here we see the configuration of Jupiter's satellites around that time. Processings will come later.
One of the 4
known Galilean moons of Jupiter, is not visible because it is located in front of the planet, so it is somewhere on the bright disk of the giant planet.

Images are upside down, as seen through the telescope.









Planet Jupiter
Distance: 688 150 205 km. (4.60 U.A.)
Lighting: 99.3%
Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, 20 mm Plossl, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Camera: Sony CX130
Filter: no
Date: 11/13/2013, Time: 4:35 to 6:00
Location: Baia Mare, Romania

Saturday 23 November 2013

Sony handycam Astrophotography Marius Reiner and Hermann craters on the Moon.

211 frames at 79% best quality in Registax.
417 frames at 84% best quality in Registax.
78 frames at 79% best quality in Registax.
73 frames at 79% best quality in Registax.

Marius (41 km), is a flooded crater and here at this stage , we can better observe the smooth floor and sharp edges with no prominent collar as the other craters. Around it are scattered small craters , many of them  being its satellite craters .

Marius crater is one of the largest in size in the area of Oceanus Procelarum Basin , being most evident in these images from the west Moon.
On the floor of this crater is distinguished a smaller crater called Marius G , but there are many others around Marius, and its satellite craters are listed in the labeled image below.
South west , there is a crater named Reiner (30 km), also isolated, but unlike Marius it has an obviously central peak not being flooded by lava.

On Reiner's south west, is an even smaller crater called Hermann (16 km) . Between the two are 247 km . All Continuing southwest , we meet Damoiseau H (45 km), a crater which only half of its edge remained untouched, and Damoiseau (37 km) . From here it begins a high area , which stretches to the unseen Moon.

Age of the Moon: 27 days
Distance: 360.270 km
Phase: 94.6% (0% = new, 100% = complete)


Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, Plossl 20 mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Camera: Sony CX130
Filter: no
Date: 02/07/2012
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: Registax, FastStone Image Viewer

Image for guidance of 18 November 2010.


Thursday 21 November 2013

Craters North-West Mare Humorum. Telescope Images.

121 frames, at 79% in Registax.
165 frames, at 84% in Registax.

In the images in this article are a few nice features observed on northwestern Basin Mare Humorum, craters, which are located on the west side of the Moon. Where dark meets light left in the images, is called  the terminal.

I list here craters which in turn have smaller satellite craters or on the floor or around them, namely Cavendish (56 km) Vieta (87 km), Liebig (37 km), Mersenius (84 km), Gasparis (30 km) Henry (41 km), Freres (42 km), but not least, Gassendi (110 km).

Age of the Moon: 27 days
Distance: 361.204 km
Phase: 98.8% (0% = New, 100% = complete)


Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, Plossl 20 mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Camera: Sony CX130
Filter: no
Date: 02.07.2012
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: Registax, FastStone Image Viewer



Image for guidance, from 04 March 2012.


Monday 18 November 2013

Small eye, big eye. Hercules and Atlas

57 frames, 95% best quality in Registax.

Craters which are the subject of the article, are Hercules and Atlas, two friendly craters due to the distance between them. From edge to edge are only 31 Km. The small one is Hercules, and the big one is Atlas. The two appear to resemble along with 2 eyes from a cartoon.
What is important to note here are the dark spots on their floor, which at this stage of the Moon are more visible.

Age of the Moon: 7 days
Phase: 51% (0% = New, 100% = Full)
Distance: 384.488 km

Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, 20mm Plossl, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Camera: Sony CX130
Filter: no
Date: 29.04.2012
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: Images in Registax, FastStone Image Viewer




Video capture.


Saturday 16 November 2013

Video by astronomical telescope crater Copernicus.

Video by astronomical telescope. Crater Copernicus.

Age of the Moon: 11 days
Distance: 386658 km
Phase: 85% (0% = New, 100% = full)




Optics: Celestron C8 "-Newtonian, 20mm Plossl, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Device: Sony CX-130
Video Mode: Full HD 1920x1080 progressive
Filter: no
Date: 23/03/2013
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing and editing: Sony Vegas 10




Wednesday 13 November 2013

Quick video captures of Jupiter by telescope.



Planet Jupiter.
As a novelty for me tonight was that I first saw the great red spot on the planet.

You may be wondering where is one of the four Galilean satellites. Io is in front of the planet and therefore is not visible, but on the fourth image can be located on planet's disc as a dark point on the left, near the edge.

Images are upside down, as seen through the telescope, and are simple video captures unprocessed. Expected to insert them in Registax for more details of the images to be seen.

We can see here that is outer atmosphere which is is visibly separated into several bands at different latitudes, resulting in turbulence and storms along their interacting boundaries. An important result is the Great Red Spot, a giant storm that is known to exist at least from the 17th century, when it was first seen through the telescope.




Planet: Jupiter
Distance: 688,150,205 km. (4.60 U.A.)
Illuminated: 99.3%
Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, 20 mm Plossl, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Camera: Sony CX130
Filter: no
Date: 11/13/2013, time: 4:35 to 6:00
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: FastStone Image Viewer

Red star Betelgeuse this Morning (DSLR and telescope images)

This is the star Betelgeuse in the constellation Orion seen in the morning of November 13, 2013 through a telescope and Nikon D80 DSLR camera.

It was a pretty cold tonight but not cold as in winter. The temperature was 4 degrees. I had my thermos with hot tea so I only had a few chills and cold hands.
In the night sky, Betelgeuse is easy to find with the naked eye because of its proximity to Orion's belt and is distinct like a red-orange color star. In the northern hemisphere in January of each year, we can see it rising in the east just after sunset. By mid-March, is visible to almost every inhabited region of the world except Antarctica. In May, the red giant can be seen for a short time on the western horizon, after sunset, but reappears again a few months later, on the eastern horizon before sunrise.




Telescope: 8 inch Celestron Newtonian
C5/EQ5 motorized mount
Camera: Nikon D80 with ring T
Eyepiece: no (focal)
Filter: no
Date: November 13, 2013
Time: 5:33
Mode: Manual
ISO: 1000
Exposure time: 8 sec
Location: Baia Mare, Romania


Image for guidance, taken on 21 October 2012.


Tuesday 12 November 2013

Sony handycam astrophotography. Saturn 100% illuminated.

25 frames, at 95% in Registax.
8 frames, at 95% in Registax.
76 frames, at 95% in Registax.
263 frames, at 95% in Registax.
26 frames, at 95% in Registax.
61 frames, at 95% in Registax.
26 frames, at 95% in Registax.


At the end of April, in addition to Moon craters, I filmed Saturn, the second largest planet in the Solar System. What we see here are actually video images processed in Registax program that has transformed them in photos.

The video from which were extracted these Photos, is here: [FullHD] Saturn planet video by telescope.
Simple video captures can be seen here: Saturn images through 8 inch Celestron.

Planet: Saturn
Distance: 709 093 907 km.
Illuminated: 100%
Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, 20 mm Plossl, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Camera: Sony CX130
Filter: no
Date: 29.04.2012
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: Images in Registax, FastStone Image Viewer


 
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