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March 15th & 18th
2011 |
March 2011's conjunction
of Jupiter and Mercury. Jupiter
to the left and Mercury slightly higher to the right low in the
west after sunset. Photo
2 Three days later, the day after Messenger's
arrival at about the same time, Jupiter has sunk further and Mercury
climbs higher. Picture
3.
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Sept & Oct 2010 by
Pat Grandfield |
Two images of Neptune
taken by Pat in Kilorglin with the same setup as used for the Pluto
images below.
Neptune-1
was taken on 2010-09-29 Time 22:32:30'
Neptune-2
was taken on 2010-10-11 Time 20:10:55'
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June 2010 by Pat Grandfield |
Two images of Pluto
(mag 14) taken with Meade ETX 70, in polar mount configuration,
and Orion Starshoot DS M ll. The apparent motion of Pluto was retrograde
at the time.
Pluto-1
was taken on 2010-06-17 T23:49:25'
Pluto-2
was taken on 2010-06-20 T00:40:40'
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11th of April 2007 |
Saturn, on a night of good
seeing. |
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3rd March 2007, Kevin
Lawlor |
Venus blazes in the South
West after sunset in Banna. |
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7th of Feb 2006 |
Saturn, just three days
before opposition. Very unsteady skies made imaging very difficult, |
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9th of April 2006 |
Saturn, now two months past
opposition. 455 frames out of a 775 frame video file. |
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9th of April 2006 |
First image of Jupiter and
Io in 2006 when it was just 17 degrees over the horizon. The sky
was turbulent and little detail was visible. 74 frames out of 152. |
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M. Scully. 17th of Feb
2006 |
Saturn only two weeks later
and the planet's shadow on the rings behind the planet is now obvious
again |
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M. Scully. 2nd of Feb
2006 |
Saturn just a couple of
days after opposition and hence little evidence of the planet's
shadow on the rings behind the planet, |
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M. Scully. 18th of Dec
2005 |
Very little detail visible
on this image of Mars but its further reduction in size and definite
gibbous appearance are noticeable. |
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M. Scully. 3rd of Dec
2005 |
Mars, smaller and a bit
Gibbous at 22:50 UT. CM is about 247 degrees, so the central dark
feature visible is Mare Cimmerium with Syrtis Major just appearing
on the left (east) limb. With images taken over just two hours there
is also an animation (115k) of the planet's rotation here. |
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M. Scully. 28th of Nov
2005 |
Mars, smaller and a bit
Gibbous at 00:45 UT. C M is about 336 degrees, so the central dark
feature visible is Mare Sabaeus with Mare Serpentis further South.
The Northpole is tipped away to the upper right and East to the
upper left. |
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M. Scully. 12th of Nov
2005 |
Mars at 21:50 UT. Central
Meridian is about 68 degrees, so the main dark feature visible is
Mare Australe. The Northern polar hood of cloud is more visible.
Dead center is a bright area that could be a dust storm. |
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M. Scully. 7th of Nov
2005 |
Mars at 00:55 UT. Central
Meridian is 168 degrees, so the main dark feature visible is Mare
Sierenium. The Northern polar hood of cloud is just visible. Also
to the upper left of center is the giant volcano Olympus Mons, (the
white circular feature) |
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M. Scully. 28th of Oct
2005 |
Mars at 23:07 BST. Central
Meridian is 207 degrees, so the main dark feature visible is Mare
Cimmerium. The Southern polar cap is no longer visible. |
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M. Scully. 25th of Oct
2005 |
Mars at 1:21 BST. Central
Meridian is now 270 degrees, so Syrtis Major (like India but upside
down!) is visible. In the North (top) a polar hood of light colour
cloud is just visible. |
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M. Scully. 12th of Oct
2005 |
Mars at 0:41 BST. Central
Meridian is 17 degrees, so the same features as below are visible.
There is a hint of the south polar cap ay the 7 o'clock position. |
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M. Scully. 12th of Oct
2005 |
Mars at 1:02 BST. Central
Meridian is 22 degrees so Mare Australe is the lighter area in the
south with Mare Erythraeum the main dark part. Acidalium is in the
North. Oxus is just visible. No sign of a polar cap. |
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M. Scully. 12th of Sept
2005 |
Mars at 1:50 BST. North
up and west to the right. Central Meridian is 309 degrees so Syrtis
Major near the terminator and Arabia the bright area in the North.
Only a slight hint of the South polar cap. |
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M. Scully. 27th of June
2005 |
Venus and Mercury on the
evening of closest approach. Canon 300d, 200mm, ISO800, 0.4 second
at f 5.6. Taken from the slopes of Barnanageehy looking twoards
Fenit and Tralee bay. Thumbnail is part of the full image. |
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K. Lawlor. 26th of June
2005 |
Another image of Venus and
Mercury setting taken from Ardfert. Image taken with Nikon D100 |
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M. Scully. 26th of June
2005 |
Venus and Mercury taken
with the canon 300d at prime focus of a 1280mm focal lenght telescope.
The seperation of the planets was less than 1/4 of a degree, half
the width of the Moon! |
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K. Lawlor. 12th of June
2005 |
Venus setting over an hour
after the Sun, taken from Ardfert near Banna beach. Image taken
with Nikon D100 |
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M. Scully. 10th of June
2005 |
Venus setting an hour after
the Sun, seen from Banna, at our Mid-summer
observing session. |
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M. Scully, 18th April
2005,
00:44 |
Jupiter with Europa finishing
its transit followed by its shadow and Io out to the left. There
are also images taken at 0:15,
0:36
and 0:55.
Setup as below but AVI of approx 800 frames for each image processed
in Registax 3. |
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M. Scully, 16th April
2005,
01:37 |
Jupiter a couple of weeks
after opposition with two moons Ganymede and Io (further out). The
Great 'Red Spot' is also visible. Philips ToUcam Pro, 222mm f5.77
+ X2 barlow, 15 second AVI at 10 frames per second, processed in
Registax 3 |
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As below |
Same image as below but
processed to emphasise the glow from the zodiacal light. The blue
nebulosity around M45 is also just visible. |
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M. Scully, 6th March 2005,
20:20 |
Zodiacal light seen from
Banna two hours after sunset. This is believed to be caused by light
reflecting off of tiny particles of dust that orbit the Sun between
the Earth and the Sun. It is only visible in very dark skies when
the ecliptic is at a steep angle. 60 second exposure at ISO1600 |
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M. Scully, 6th March 2005,
19:49 |
Mercury, seen from Banna,
as it sets in the west over the islands of Illaun na Barnagh and
Mucklaghmore, an hour and a half after sunset. The exposure of 15
seconds caused the planet to leave a trail on the image. |
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M. Scully, 15th Jan 2005,
19:47 |
Saturn. This is my first
attempt at Planetary imaging through the 222mm f5.77 Dobsonian +
x2 Barlow. Seeing was very poor and visually no detail or Cassini
division was noticeable. |
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M Scully, 25th of March
2004 at 20:32 |
The moon with Mars to its
upper left, Pleides to its upper right and Venus, (see the full-size
image) to its lower left. Taken with a Finepix 2600Z digital camera,
1/2 second exposure. |
