Post by brianb on Aug 26, 2012 18:57:28 GMT
Cloudy weather, poor seeing, other commitments & issues with equipment are conspiring to make this month a very difficult one. Still a few rare occasions when things aren't completely disastrous.
Much trouble with cloud, a lot of time wasted trying to collimate the scope (I don't know why this one won't hold collimation but it always seems to be way out) but I did manage to get an RGB set on Jupiter this morning. Infra red failed as cloud spread in.
The cloud sort of melted away as the sun rose & I managed to get a fairly good Venus in ultra violet. I might have been a bit conservative as it would probably have been possible to get an image with the SCT.
0847 UT. Alt 54 deg, diameter 21.0 arc sec, phase 0.558. William Optics FLT 110, 4x Powermate, Astrodon UVenus filter, Imaging Source DMK21AU618 camera.
The breeze then dropped and the seeing started to deteriorate very fast. In fact it was so bad that I didn't even attempt solar closeups ... would probably have been stripped to the bone by the midges if I hadn't packed up & retreated to the realtive safety of indoors. I did get full disk images after a certain amount of wrestling with the iEQ45 (just getting used to it & finding an incompatibility with the strange dovetail block on the Solarscope!)
Much trouble with cloud, a lot of time wasted trying to collimate the scope (I don't know why this one won't hold collimation but it always seems to be way out) but I did manage to get an RGB set on Jupiter this morning. Infra red failed as cloud spread in.
The cloud sort of melted away as the sun rose & I managed to get a fairly good Venus in ultra violet. I might have been a bit conservative as it would probably have been possible to get an image with the SCT.
0847 UT. Alt 54 deg, diameter 21.0 arc sec, phase 0.558. William Optics FLT 110, 4x Powermate, Astrodon UVenus filter, Imaging Source DMK21AU618 camera.
The breeze then dropped and the seeing started to deteriorate very fast. In fact it was so bad that I didn't even attempt solar closeups ... would probably have been stripped to the bone by the midges if I hadn't packed up & retreated to the realtive safety of indoors. I did get full disk images after a certain amount of wrestling with the iEQ45 (just getting used to it & finding an incompatibility with the strange dovetail block on the Solarscope!)
