2023-01-17 Naked Eye Sunspot. I have been getting several email notifications of solar flares (small to medium ones). With the Sun showing today I...

No doubt your equipment is better than mine but expect your seeing at times is better than mine as well. The first of the 2 latest images and the one...

Nice image. I have noticed on the better images taken this Fall that the Great Red Spot has developed a dark red center. I am not aware that this fe...

Occultation of Mars by the Moon I manage to catch a some glimpses of Mars and the Moon through heavy clouds starting moments after Mars emerged from...

2022-12-04 Mars 10" f/5.6 Newtonian, eyepiece projection using 15mm eyepiece. Stack of 20% of ~ 5200 video frames (3 minutes). Video for this i...

What? How are you pronouncing it? : ) Ha ha ha ha......

This is a test post. It used to be when someone posted a reply to a topic the autogenerated email included a link directly to that post. Since Scott...

Wow, looks at all those dust clouds. And with only an hour's worth of exposure. The effective f/ratio of 3.44 helps but not a lot. Must have been a...

Nice. You can now say you have imaged Uranus.

Yes, I too am surprised you got such good results last night. I didn't even bother trying it was so bad down here. And big improvement on 2nd proces...

Mars, 11/22/2022, 9:45 PM ESTNote the time of this image of Mars above. Mars is high enough now mid-evening to get some good views and images.10" f/5...

Thanks. The last time (the only other time) I imaged them was in November 2008. I took about 100 still shots (used about 70 each planet) at that time...

11-20-2022 The seeing was predicted to be bad tonight. It was not great, but it was OK as evidenced by this image of Mars. Mars size 16.9", almost a...

Thanks Greg and Terri. I should have tried my 8" f/6 Newtion and compared the view to my 12.5" f/4.5 but it was in the car and I didn't want to take ...