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Posts Made By: Paul Maxson

May 21, 2009 02:32 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Jupiter May 18, 2009

Posted By Paul Maxson
Hi all,

In addition to the Europa-Ganymede occultation, seeing was good enough for me to capture the following image.

http://www.sunspot51.com/Jupiter/Jupiter051809-RGB.jpg

Paul

May 21, 2009 06:54 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Saturn from March 29

Posted By Paul Maxson
Hi all,

Now that I finished the occultation images from Jupiter's moons, it's time to get back to catching up on processing. Here is a Saturn in good seeing from March 29. Rhea is at about 3 o'clock.

http://www.sunspot51.com/Saturn/Saturn032909-RGB.jpg

Paul

May 31, 2009 02:35 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Saturn from April 21.

Posted By Paul Maxson
Hi all,

Here is a Saturn from April 21. Titan is about to be eclipsed.

http://www.sunspot51.com/Saturn/Saturn042009-RGB.jpg

Paul

June 5, 2009 01:45 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Saturn, Titan shadow transit, April 29

Posted By Paul Maxson
Hi all,

Here are a couple of images of the above transit. By the time the transit started, Saturn was over the hot roof of my house.

http://www.sunspot51.com/Saturn/Saturn042809-RGB.jpg

Paul

June 16, 2009 08:36 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Jupiter June 16

Posted By Paul Maxson
Hi all,

Two shadows on Jupiter so, of course it was cloudy when I got up to image. Jupiter was just showing through the clouds so I decided since I was up anyway, I'd give it a go. I had to increase my exposures from about 25ms to 60ms, cutting my frame rate to about 17fps. That only allowed for 900 frames instead of my normal 2000. Luckily seeing was not too bad and here is my result. I see what looks like a reddish spot in the north polar area (bottom, right) and the new dark spot is prominent. I'm not sure what the brownish area is to the right of the dark spot. The two shadows are Io (right) and Ganymede (just coming on the disk). The moon is Io. Still trying to figure out the best settings to capture detail on the moons.

http://www.sunspot51.com/Jupiter/Jupiter061609-RGB.jpg

Paul

June 18, 2009 03:33 PM Forum: Coronado-Lunt-DayStar Solar Filters

LS100F on it's way!!

Posted By Paul Maxson
I just got a call from my vendor telling me that my LS100F is in his possession and will be shipped to me in a few days!! I was expecting it by August, so this has me gobsmacked!! I can't wait!

Paul

June 28, 2009 02:05 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Saturn May 25, 2009

Posted By Paul Maxson
Hi all,

I'm pleased with how this Saturn image turned out. I used an IR image for the L layer in an LRGB image.

http://www.sunspot51.com/Saturn/Saturn052409-LRGB.jpg

Paul
Those who say it can't be done should stay out of the way of those who are doing it.

July 7, 2009 11:27 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Ganymede-Europa animation July 7

Posted By Paul Maxson
Hi all,

This occultation was well placed for imaging for me this morning. Seeing was average and I wish I had used a shorter exposure. My tables said this would be a grazing occultation at my location, but as you can see, it wasn't. Still not disappointing. This was shot with the Mewlon 250 at F/35. I captured 22 frames between 0956UT and 1031UT, each about 2 minutes apart except where the two moons overlapped. I stacked 100 frames for each image, registered them in Maxim DL and created the animation in Animation Shop. I shot 3 sets of the planet afterwards, but that will take a while to get processed. For me, the next one I will try will be July 13, starting at about 945UT. Those will be Io and Europa.

http://www.sunspot51.com/Misc/Ganymede-Europa070709.gif

Thanks!!
Paul

July 12, 2009 05:15 PM Forum: Takahashi

EM200 problem

Posted By Paul Maxson
Hi all,

I've got a weird problem with my EM200 mount. I turn it on and the motors are running fine and tracking. However the hand controller does not work, I press buttons and nothing happens. I also have the Filos control box from Heiko Wilkens which works only in three directions. According to his webpage, pushing the joy stick up controls the S5 switch on the Tak controller and that one does not work. The other three are working (for now?). I am wondering what my next step should be? I was thinking of sending the mount to Art to check out along with both controllers. He replaced the CPU on the mount twice about 18 months ago. This is frustrating as Jupiter season is getting hot and heavy!

Thanks in advance.
Paul Maxson

PS, the mount is about 4 years old.

July 27, 2009 02:25 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Jupiter July 25.

Posted By Paul Maxson
Hi all,

I had great seeing conditions for this image, the pressure was on to process it to bring the seeing out. I hope I did.

http://www.sunspot51.com/Jupiter/Jupiter072509-RGB.jpg

Paul

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