v.196 uploaded: 29th May 2016
Sharnbrook Observatory
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This version includes images of the tranist of Mercury and a few additional lunar images.
All of the images on this site are my own, taken using amateur telescopes and equipment.
As ever, I hope this encourages you to get out there and enjoy the treasures of our universe at first hand.
Best Wishes,
Peter Garbett
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The Transit of Mercury: 9th May 2016
Substantial amounts of cloud on the 9th May plus having to wait until the end of the working day meant that prospects of seeing this event were
rather slimmer than I would have liked. Nevertheless I hurried up the lane with a colleague and friend from work, Dave, who had an ambition to
see the planet Mercury. Fortunately a break in the cloud on arrival home meant we got a lovely view both in white light with the 20cm Meade and
in H-alpha with the 40mm Coronado double stacked filter. Mercury looked like a black marble suspended in front of the mighty disk of the Sun.
Having achieved the principal goal, there looked like a chance of grabbing a few images before the clouds would inevitably end procedings.
I rushed to set up the necessary gear and managed a few brief video clips in H-alpha before the clouds spoiled attempts to get some white light
images. There was always some hazy cloud, so the images were not as well defined as I should have ideally liked.
09.05.16 16:13 UTC
Coronado SM40 double stack filter on Orion ED f=600mm refractor
PGR Flea 3 CCD; Baader UV/IR rejection filter; drizzled x1.5
09.05.16 16:13:30 UTC
Coronado SM40 double stack filter on Orion ED f=600mm refractor
PGR Flea 3 CCD; Baader UV/IR rejection filter
09.05.16 16:15 UTC
Coronado SM40 double stack filter on Orion ED f=600mm refractor
PGR Flea 3 CCD; Baader UV/IR rejection filter; drizzled x1.5
09.05.16 16:22 UTC
Coronado SM40 double stack filter on Orion ED f=600mm refractor
PGR Flea 3 CCD; Baader UV/IR rejection filter; drizzled x1.5
Our nearest neighbour in space
16.05.16 21:41 UTC
Copernicus and domes lower left and lower right
C14 @ f/11; Flea 3 CCD; Trutek type 1 R filter; drizzled x1.5
14.05.16 21:10 UTC
Hadley Rille
C14 @ f/11; Flea 3 CCD; Trutek type 1 R filter
14.05.16 21:06 UTC
Deslandres: a dramatic feature at sunrise
C14 @ f/11; Flea 3 CCD; Trutek type 1 R filter
18.02.16 21:36 UTC
The dome zone! Near Copernicus (just off image towards the right)
C14 @ f/11; Flea 3 CCD; Trutek type 1 R filter
18.02.16 21:41 UTC
Herigonius and the tricky to spot Herigonius Rille in centre of image
C14 @ f/11; Flea 3 CCD; Trutek type 1 R filter
18.02.16 21:26 - 21:29 UTC
Sinus Iridum
C14 @ f/11; Flea 3 CCD; Trutek type 1 R filter
20.01.16 22:17 UTC
Kepler
C14 @ f/11; Flea 3 CCD; Trutek type 1 R filter
20.01.16 22:40 UTC
Gassendi on the edge of Mare Humorum
C14 @ f/11; Flea 3 CCD; Trutek type 1 R filter
20.01.16 22:43 UTC
Kepler
C14 @ f/11; Flea 3 CCD; Trutek type 1 R filter
20.01.16 22:44 UTC
Prinz and its weird rilles
C14 @ f/11; Flea 3 CCD; Trutek type 1 R filter
20.01.16 22:46 UTC
J Herschel (huge battered enclosure on left side of image)
C14 @ f/11; Flea 3 CCD; Trutek type 1 R filter
20.01.16 22:49 UTC
Philolaus (left of centre); Anaxagoras (near right edge of centre)
C14 @ f/11; Flea 3 CCD; Trutek type 1 R filter
20.01.16 22:52 UTC
Plato
C14 @ f/11; Flea 3 CCD; Trutek type 1 R filter
20.01.16 22:53 UTC
Hippalus rilles (right edge of image); Doppelmayer (battered and part submerged left of centre)
C14 @ f/11; Flea 3 CCD; Trutek type 1 R filter
20.01.16 23:31 UTC
Schiller
C14 @ f/11; Flea 3 CCD; Trutek type 1 R filter
20.01.16 23:45 UTC
Tycho in close-up
C14 @ f/27; Flea 3 CCD; Trutek type 1 R filter
20.01.16 23:51 UTC
Copernicus in close-up
C14 @ f/27; Flea 3 CCD; Trutek type 1 R filter
21.01.16 00:00 UTC
Plato in close-up
C14 @ f/27; Flea 3 CCD; Trutek type 1 R filter
18.01.16 22:05 UTC
Straight Wall, Thebit, Arzachel
C14 @ f/11; Flea 3 CCD; Trutek type 1 R filter
18.01.16 22:08 UTC
Alphonsus (118km diameter with dark ash deposits from volcanic eruptions), Arzachel
C14 @ f/11; Flea 3 CCD; Trutek type 1 R filter
18.01.16 22:12 UTC
Gambart (lower part of image) and ejecta from Copernicus
C14 @ f/11; Flea 3 CCD; Trutek type 1 R filter
18.01.16 22:16 UTC
Copernicus and ejecta
C14 @ f/11; Flea 3 CCD; Trutek type 1 R filter
18.01.16 22:19 UTC
Gambart (just below centre) and ejecta from Copernicus
C14 @ f/11; Flea 3 CCD; Trutek type 1 R filter
18.01.16 21:50 UTC
Davy's crater chain of 1-2km diameter craters (probably caused by an impact similar to the SL-9 impact on Jupiter in 1994)
C14 @ f/11; Flea 3 CCD; Trutek type 1 R filter
Jupiter
28.03.16
Red spot junior (oval BA)
C14 @ f/27 with ADC; PGR Flea 3 CCD
Colour image is a WinJupos RGB de-rotated combination centred on 23:09.7 UTC
Right image: Trutek Type 1 R filter 23:10.9 UTC
13.03.16
Great Red Spot rotating into view
C14 @ f/27; PGR Flea 3 CCD
Colour image is a WinJupos RGB de-rotated combination centred on 01:53.2 UTC
Upper right image: Trutek Type 1 R filter 01:09.2 UTC; lower left: Trutek Type 1 G
filter + Baader UV/IR rejection filter 01:55.9 UTC; lower right Trutek Type 1 B filter
+ Baader UV/IR rejection filter 01:53.1 UTC (all derotated combinations in WinJupos).
13.03.16
C14 @ f/27; PGR Flea 3 CCD
Colour image is a WinJupos RGB de-rotated combination centred on 01:10.3 UTC
Right image: Trutek Type 1 R filter 01:09.2 UTC
13.03.16
C14 @ f/27 with ADC; PGR Flea 3 CCD
Colour image is a WinJupos RGB de-rotated combination centred on 00:08.4 UTC
Upper right image: Trutek Type 1 R filter 00:10.1 UTC; lower left: Trutek Type 1 G
filter + Baader UV/IR rejection filter 00:08.1 UTC; lower right Trutek Type 1 B filter
+ Baader UV/IR rejection filter 00:06.8 UTC (all derotated combinations in WinJupos).
21.01.16
Great Red Spot: crude early image at low altitude with declining seeing
C14 @ f/27; PGR Flea 3 CCD
Trutek Type 1 R filter 00:32 UTC
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