Planetary Images (last update:
12/2020)
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Here are the March 2012 Conjunction
Pictures
2012 Venus Transit
March 30, 2010: Venus (upper left) and Mercury (lower right)
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Saturn and Jupiter |
A Bad Picture of the Moon?
No, it's a shot of Venus in broad
daylight. Like the moon, Venus
has phases and was 1.14% illuminated when shot at 5:30 p.m. on 3/24/2009,
about 3 hours before local sunset.
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Venus as a Crescent
12/28/2005: Venus as a crescent at prime focus on the Takahashi TOA 130!
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Whoa! Ken Florentino from the digital astrophoto group processed some of my images using ImagesPlus (http://www.mlunsold.com/) and produced the following results:
Here are a couple of versions of Saturn. The one on the left is older, on the right is newer.
Here are some images of Jupiter captured on 1/19/02. Its moon Io is casting a shadow on its face, just below and to the right of center.
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Several shots stacked and combined
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Stack
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Several shots stacked & combined
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Another single shot
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Single shot
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Saturn (STV CCD camera)
Saturn from Jan 19 |
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Jupiter, 1/19/02
Great Red Spot is (barely) visible on upper left area of top dark band. |
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Moon from STV (old)
Not a planet, included just for fun... |
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Techniques: I'm learning how to use Astrostack, and that's what I used for the stacked pix.
Equipment: Olympus C-4040 digital camera, Scopetronix "digi-T" adapter, Takahashi FS-102 telescope, either a UO Klee 2.8x or Celstron 2x barlow lens (or both stacked) and a Celestron 26mm plossl eyepiece.
Planetary Challenges: With planets you need high magnifications, so you need to shoot both through the scope and through a magnifying eyepiece. (All my previous through-the-scope pictures didn't use an eyepiece.) A few more planet pix in the gallery below.
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Jupiter |
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Using an Olympus C-4040 digital Camera |
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Jupiter, Film |
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An experiment with 800 film... |
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Jupiter, film |
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Kodak E200 slide film, 1/2 sec |
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Jupiter with Film |
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1/2 sec, 100 print film |
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Saturn, film |
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1 sec, Kodak E200 slide film |
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Click on Sun to see the sunspot picture.
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