Solar&Planetary LtE Now for CMO/ISMO in Oct. 2019

Solar & Planetary LtE Now in October 2019

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¤•••••Subject: Re: Fwd:

Received: 31 October 2019 at 12:53 JST

Dear Bill,

Thanks a lot for your concern the other day, and sorry for my delay in replying.

After the heavy rains by the Typhoon 19th the river 50m west of our place overflowed its banks, and our house, dental clinic as well were flooded 15cm above floor level. My family, dental staffs and I myself are all alright, all the dental treatment unit is intact, and my telescopes on the rooftop are safe! And we could have reopened our clinic from 16 October.

I am attaching some pictures FYR.

I am pleased to know that you have started assembling the Saheki-Mirrored reflector.

If you got your first light of the telescope, please let me know what you find (I am a telescopoholic as you know).

Good Seeing with Excellent Telescopes!

Reiichi KONNAI (Fukushima, JAPAN)

¤•••••Subject: Fwd:

Received: 31 October 2019 at 03:37 JST

Dear Tomoko, et al.,

Jim Cole, of the Lowell staff, and I spent yesterday putting the telescope together. We are in the hallway of the Putnam Collection Center, and in the background, behind Jim and the glass, you an see Percival Lowell’s globes of Mars from the early 1900s.

I will send you another picture once we get the telescope completely assembled, and I plan on making some inaugural observations with it of the Moon soon.

Meanwhile, Masatsugu’s sketchbooks are in currently in deep freeze (to assure they will be best preserved). I will begin to study and catalog them once they are out.

With all good wishes,

Bill SHEEHAN (Flagstaff, AZ)

¤•••••Subject: Saturn image (October 26th.)

Received: 28 October 2019 at 17:17 JST

Hi all,

Here is an image from October 26th. Some reasonable seeing.

The polar hexagon is nicely seen.

http://www.damianpeach.com/sat19/s2019-10-26-0030_8-RGBdp.jpg

Best wishes,

Damian PEACH (Selsey, WS, the UK)

Web: http://www.damianpeach.com/

¤•••••Subject: Saturn, Oct 23 IR650

Received: 24 October 2019 at 18:20 JST

Hi all, here's an image of Saturn from last night in good seeing through a 650nm longpass filter.

The polar hexagon can be seen at top (north) and also a faint dark spot is visible below and left of the hex in between two of the darker northern bands.

I've included a contrast-enhanced inset to show it more clearly.

Link:
http://www.acquerra.com.au/astro/gallery/saturn/index.live?dir=/saturn&image=20191023-085648

Anthony WESLEY (QLD, AUSTRALIA)

¤•••••Subject: Re: Thank you

Received: 22 October 2019 at 03:17 JST

Dear Tomoko,
I am sorry to hear that Reiichi Konnai had flooding of his house, and hope that he did not suffer significant damages.

On Monday, I will be assembling the telescope at Lowell; I will send pictures!

Best, Bill

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On Oct 16, 2019, at 5:38 AM, m.tomoko wrote:

Dear Bill,
Thank you for your anxiety about our damage of Typhoon No.19 to Japan.

Almost all of my friends were safe without Reiichi Konnai, who lives in the south of Fukushima prefecture and the river near his house flooded his house but luckily he and his family took shelter quickly so they were all right.

A lot of his friends and his relatives have helped him clean up his house.

I appreciate your kindness for my husband and Japanese Mars observers.

Cordially yours

Tomoko

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Bill SHEEHAN (Flagstaff, AZ)

¤•••••Subject: Dr. Mike Reynolds

Received: 17 October 2019 at 19:38 JST

Sad to inform CN that ALPO Board member and former ALPO Executive Director Mike Reynolds passed away late this afternoon (10/15/2019). Mike was also our coordinator for both the the Eclipse Section and the Mercury and Venus Transits Section. I hope to have more information concerning his passing and arrangements that will be made for him later this week.

Mike had an extraordinary knowledge and track record in his coverage of total solar eclipses. He was a highly respected colleague, a very good friend, and he will be greatly missed. More information about Mike and his life will appear in an upcoming issue on the ALPO Journal.

Jeff BEISH (Lake Placid, FL)

¤•••••Subject: Neptune & Triton 2019.10.10

Received: 16 October 2019 at 13:52 JST

Dears,

Neptune and Triton under correct conditions, with maybe a spot in the Southern hemisphere - not confirmed on other images:

http://www.astrosurf.com/delcroix/images/planches/n2019-10-10_23-01-06_ir685_md.jpg

http://www.astrosurf.com/delcroix/images/planches/n2019-10-10_23-16-12_ir685_md.jpg

Steady skies,

Marc DELCROIX (Tournefeuille, FRANCE)

http://astrosurf.com/delcroix

¤•••••Subject: Saturn & satellites 2019.10.10

Received: 16 October 2019 at 06:35 JST

Dears,

Under average conditions, Saturn and five of its satellites:

http://www.astrosurf.com/delcroix/images/planches/s2019-10-10_18-52-18_r642_md.jpg

Steady skies!

Marc DELCROIX (Tournefeuille, FRANCE)

http://astrosurf.com/delcroix

¤•••••Subject: Re

Received: 15 October 2019 at 02:30 JST

Dear Tomoko and Murakami,

I hope you were not affected by the typhoon. I would think you’re on the west side of Japan enough to be out of the way.
Regarding the notebooks, yes, the plans are to eventually digitize them and make them available to researchers, though I am not sure when that will be done. I was discussing with Richard McKim, the long-time BAA Mars Section Director and, like Masatsugu, a very keen student of Martian dust storms. We agreed that probably Masatsugu is the most prolific visual observer of Mars of all time, and that his 10,000 sketches will long remain the record (perhaps forever!).

I had not realized his connection with the great Yukawa. Masatsugu, though, was always very modest and always downplayed his own importance.

I miss him every night the red planet shines.

Best, Bill

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On Oct 14, 2019, at 7:36 AM,　 Tomoko wrote:

Dear Bill

I am relieved to hear that Masatsugu's sketch books, the reflector, the astronomical telescope and the wooden tripod, all have arrived safely.
I deeply appriciate your kindness once more. Thanks to your proposal, my husband’s work for more than 60 years became accessible to many observers.
I hope his sketch books will be digitalized and be open to reserchers all over the world in the future.

Yours sincerely
Tomoko

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Bill SHEEHAN (Flagstaff, AZ)

¤•••••Subject: Fwd: The Asahi Shimbun) The English version of the article

Received: 14 October 2019 at 03:10 JST

English version of article on Minami’s work—may be of interest.

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From: Asako Hanafusa

Subject: The Asahi Shimbun) The English version of the article

Date: October 13, 2019 at 11:02:05 AM MST

To: William SHEEHAN

Hello William,

Thank you so much again for your cooperation the other day for our article about Minami.

We finally published the English version of the article. The following is the link.

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201910040009.html

Hope you're having a good week!

Asako Hanafusa

Staff Writer, City News Section, Osaka Headquaters, The Asahi Shimbun

2-3-18 Nakanoshima, Kita-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka 530-8211 Japan

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Bill SHEEHAN (Flagstaff, AZ)

¤•••••Subject: Fwd: Photo

Received: 10 October 2019 at 06:23 JST

Dear Tomoko and Murakami,

I was finally able to get to Lowell and took inventory of all the things that have arrived. The mirror is safe, and the large wooden box with the rest of the telescope, as well Masatsugu’s beautiful observing notebooks. All is here, all is safe and will be cared for.

We put the notebooks into the freezer to process them to preserve them better, and once this is done, I will start going through them carefully and we will put them into folders. They will be a great resource for students of Mars and I plan to begin studying them myself as the first person in the queue.

I was amazed that the notes are all in English not Japanese.

I will send some other images soon.

With warm regards and thanks,

Bill Sheehan

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From: Lauren Amundson

Subject: Photo

Date: October 9, 2019 at 10:56:18 AM MST

To: william sheehan

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Bill SHEEHAN (Flagstaff, AZ)

¤•••••Subject: Saturn, Oct 7 IR650

Received: 8 October 2019 at 17:30 JST

Hi all, here's an image of Saturn from last night in good seeing. Four separate runs were combined to get this result - you can see that both Tethys and Enceladus are a bit blurred as a result.

The polar hex is visible at top along with a lot of banding and fine structure in the clouds, but no large storms or spots are present.

regards, Anthony

Link:
http://www.acquerra.com.au/astro/gallery/saturn/index.live?dir=/saturn&image=20191007-100054

Anthony WESLEY (QLD, AUSTRALIA)

¤•••••Subject: Saturn, Oct 6 R+IR

Received: 7 October 2019 at 07:50 JST

Hi all, some reasonable seeing for a while on Saturn last night, here's an image made by combining 4 separate 90s runs in WinJupos. Several bright and dark features can be seen on the globe. The moon Tethys is visible below Saturn, it is not corrected and so appears blurred.