Astronomical Observations by Alex P.

Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Pisces Austin id's meteor shower

The Piscis Austrinids meteor shower is near its peak Meteor Shower Calendar App (http://www.ccwilcox.com/msc/) Click here: http://www.ccwilcox.com/msc/ to learn more!

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Iridium 57

A flash from Iridium 57 will be visible from Phoenix, on Wednesday, 29 Jun 22:00:40 Visible in the ENE (64°) Elevation: 32° Brightness: -4.0 http://issdetector.com

Monday, May 16, 2016

This image was take May 15th 2016. Mars was view-able most of the evening. It was not cloudy but it was windy so it was hard to get a clear image. But considering this is not bad. Going to wait for the winds to calm down then I will try again.

Saturday, April 9, 2016

Detailed Moon craters image

This image of the Moon was taken on 03-24-2016 at 23-03-30 GMT. The yellow filter I used brings out more detail.

Jupiter and shadow of Moon

This image was taken on 02-16-2016 at 22-07-02 GMT. It You can see the show of one of Jupiter's moons.

Jupiter and 2 Moons

This image was taken with 8inch telescope and using NexImage 5 with 2x Barlow. I processed it with AS!2, Registax 6 and PaintShop Pro 7x. This image is the best I have taken showing some detail of Jupiters GRS and the storms.

Sunday, March 27, 2016

Moon 3/24/2016

This image was taken with a NexStar 8se using a 2x Barlow and I attached NexImage 5 Webcam. I attached a yellow filter to the Webcam to get more detail. I processed the image with the following software: AS2, Register 6 and PaintShop Pro 7.

Friday, March 25, 2016

Jupiter taken 3/24/2016

The night was mostly clear skies and the atmosphere seemed stable. I used NexImage 5 webcam with a 2x Barlow.. The iCap software setting I used was 2x binning the gain was 14 and the exposure was set to 1/44. I then used AS2 and Registax 6 and Paintshop pro 7x.

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Moon craters using 8inch telescope and webcam with 2x barlow

This image was taken on 2/16/2016 at 10:12:45pm in Peoria AZ from my backyard. I used my NexStar 8SE with NexImage 5 and 2x Barlow. The image was processed using AS2 and Registax 6 software.

Friday, February 26, 2016

Night Sky observing

Unknown to me my youngest daughter took a picture of me during my observing session. She is a pistol. ;) On this night I was able to view Jupiter and Galilean moons. Using a 2x barlow with my neximage 5 webcam I was able to take pictures of Jupiter and the Galilean moons, close ups of the moon and the Orion Nebula. Orion Nebula and the moon in the previous posts.

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Mercury taken just after sunrise 2/12/2016

I was able to take a picture of Mercury just before sunrise. This is the last planet I needed to have all 7 planets.

Monday, February 22, 2016

Orion Nebula

This picture was taken on 2/12/2016 @ 11:59 pm. It was taken using a Celestron NexStar 8 SE telescope with the NexImage 5 Webcam. Never thought I would be able to do this with a unmodified webcam since all the Web forums say this is not possible. The night I took this picture seeing wss exelent and there were no clouds at all transparency was also excellent I'm sure if I was in a darker location and not near city lights this photo would have been a lot better. You really can do a lot with an 8 inch scope. I think this size scope is the sweet spot. Free applications are used to process was ist regi stacks and Paint Shop Pro 7.

Friday, February 19, 2016

Mars early morning.

This is my first attempt taking a picture of Mars with my setup.

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Jupiter with Ganymede shadow

This picture was taken Last night. You can see Jutiper and three of its moons. You can see the moon Ganymede shadow on Jupiter. Europa is next to Jupiter. And you can see Calistoga at the bottom left corner.