Winter is slowly fading away and rising night temperatures allow for some astroimaging, since neighbors do not light up their fireplaces so often.
Yesterday evening was one of such nights.
Yes! I loved it!
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Mars - Oposition 2012
Winter is slowly fading away and rising night temperatures allow for some astroimaging, since neighbors do not light up their fireplaces so often.
Yesterday evening was one of such nights.
Yes! I loved it!
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Mars - January 28, 2012
Mars is getting closer and closer...
Winter time is a great season for astronomy, with those long nights and freezing temperatures, or is it? Well, not quite so, especially if you live right downtown and surrounded by those cosy fireplaces' chimneys... Even at 2 a.m. it still warms up the air and warps anything you point at...
Winter time is a great season for astronomy, with those long nights and freezing temperatures, or is it? Well, not quite so, especially if you live right downtown and surrounded by those cosy fireplaces' chimneys... Even at 2 a.m. it still warms up the air and warps anything you point at...
Saturday, January 7, 2012
There is a new star out there up in the sky
Very seldom you feel you have a true friend after just 3 months of meeting someone...
Well, this is so true I cannot believe it.
My dear friend Mario has passed away on January 6th. He was the heart & soul of CRD Soutocico, a basketball club in which I got back to coaching again after a long 10 year leave. The atmosphere was so intense that we develop a trusty and special relationship.
I am feeling so terribly sad I just cannot believe it.
Mario, my friend, you will always light the way and I just can wish I am up to the dreams we were having about basketball and how to raise those great kids of ours.
Farewell dear president and friend.
R.I.P.
Well, this is so true I cannot believe it.
My dear friend Mario has passed away on January 6th. He was the heart & soul of CRD Soutocico, a basketball club in which I got back to coaching again after a long 10 year leave. The atmosphere was so intense that we develop a trusty and special relationship.
I am feeling so terribly sad I just cannot believe it.
Mario, my friend, you will always light the way and I just can wish I am up to the dreams we were having about basketball and how to raise those great kids of ours.
Farewell dear president and friend.
R.I.P.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Jupiter Oct 29th - improving processing routine
I am trying out some processing routines so I can improve my planetary images.
The leftmost image was processed in Autostakkert, FitsWork and CS4 (RGB 500 frs per channel). The middle one was processed in Registax V6 (wavelets) and CS4 (RGB 1200 frames per channel) and the one on the right was also processed in Registax V6, but this time I used the de-rotate routine. Final image was combined in WinJupos 9.1.16 and CS4 (R-RGB 1200 frames per channel).
C11 f/20
DMK21AF (icx618)
RGB Astronomik IIc
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Jupiter, GRS & Io - 201110292344UT
Jupiter on the evening of Oct. 29th.
Seeing was very good but temperature was dropping steadily which prevented mirror cooling to match seeing.
I also had to struggle against corrector condensation and at some time through the evening, I had to work around it with my wife's hairdryer...
By the time I had it done, seeing got worse. Damn it!
C11 @f/20
DMK21AF
RGB Astronomik IIc
500fr per channel RGB
Autostakkert, Fitswork and CS4
Seeing was very good but temperature was dropping steadily which prevented mirror cooling to match seeing.
I also had to struggle against corrector condensation and at some time through the evening, I had to work around it with my wife's hairdryer...
By the time I had it done, seeing got worse. Damn it!
C11 @f/20
DMK21AF
RGB Astronomik IIc
500fr per channel RGB
Autostakkert, Fitswork and CS4
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