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¤•••••Subject: Mars
2020/01/01-Kumamori
Received:
Mars
images on 1 January 2020.
https://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2020/200101/Km01Jan20.png
Best
Regards,
Teruaki KUMAMORI (
¤•••••Subject: Comet C/2017 T2
(PanSTARRS) - Dec 30th.
Received:
Hi all,
One last image for 2019. Here is
C/2017 T2 on Dec 30th.
20" CDK with FLI CCD. LRGB. 30/2/2/2min.
http://www.damianpeach.com/deepsky/c2017t2_2019_12_30dp.jpg
Wishing
you all a happy and healthy 2020!
Damian PEACH
(Selsey, WS, the
¤•••••Subject: Mo28Dec
Received:
Mars
images on
Best
Regards,
Yukio MORITA (Hiroshima,
JAPAN)
¤•••••Subject: Mars
2019/12/28-Kumamori
Received:
Mars
images on
Best
Regards,
Teruaki KUMAMORI (
¤•••••Subject: Comet C/2016 R2
(PanSTARRS)
Received:
Hi all,
Here is
one final previously unprocessed set of data on this comet.
What a
fascinating and dynamic object it was.
http://www.damianpeach.com/deepsky/c2016_r2_2018_01_18dp.jpg
16" F3.6 with FLI camera. LRGB. 30/3/3/3 mins.
Wishing
you all a Merry Christmas!
Damian PEACH
(Selsey, WS, the
¤•••••Subject: Comet C/2017
T2 (PanSTARRS) on Dec 18th,
Received:
Hi all,
Here is
an image of C/2017 T2 obtained yesterday. A nice short but curved dust tail.
http://www.damianpeach.com/deepsky/c2017t2_2019_12_18dp.jpg
20" CDK with FLI camera. LRGB. 30/2/2/2min.
Best
wishes,
Damian PEACH
(Selsey, WS, the
¤•••••Subject: Archimedes
& Aristoteles (December 6th.)
Received:
Hi all,
Here
are a couple of recent lunar images. Fair seeing.
http://www.damianpeach.com/lunar19/aristoteles_2019_12_06dp.jpg
http://www.damianpeach.com/lunar19/archimedes_2019_12_06dp.jpg
Both
obtained using the 1m telescope in
Best
wishes,
Damian PEACH
(Selsey, WS, the
¤•••••Subject: Uranus images
on 16 December 2019
Received:
Uranus
images on
Best
Regards,
Tomio AKUTSU (
¤•••••Subject: Minami's Mars
drawings
Received:
Dear Tomoko,
Masami, Reiichi and friends,
Yesterday I began reviewing Masatsugu’s observing log books, which are now out
of deep freeze (for preservation). This work was a preliminary to
scanning them and putting them on-line for researchers worldwide to be able to
access them. I must admit that I had never had the opportunity to study
closely Masatsugu’s work—he was somewhat secretive about it—but now that I have
had the chance to see what he was up to, my admiration knows no bounds. I
am so glad that Lowell Observatory has been able to accept and take the kind of
care of this masterful work that it deserves.
Not only was he the most persevering and knowledgeable visual observer of Mars
I have personally known, he was also one of the very greatest artists in
depicting the Martian features.
In advance of the scans, I am sending a few examples of Masatsugu’s work from
October 2005 with the 91-cm Lick refractor, which I played a small role in
helping to arrange. Unfortunately, another guest proved to be rather
annoying—especially to Masatsugu—and the most I contributed was getting him out
of Masatsugu’s sight for several days (I took him on a trip to Mt. Wilson) so
that he could observe Mars all night as long as conditions allowed with Rem
Stone, Laurie Hatch, and Tony Misch, all of whom were living on Mt. Hamilton at
the time. Masatsugu’s series of drawings of Mars—simply because of the
aperture and quality of the telescope and conditions—are in a class by
themselves even among Masatsugu’s oeuvre, and remind me of the work of such
great classical observers as Barnard and Antoniadi. (It makes me feel rather
guilty that I wasted some of the valuable time that Masatsugu could have spent
at the eyepiece making my own observations—but perhaps I can be forgiven that
indulgence!)
Masatsugu stayed on Mt. Hamilton long enough to catch the development of one of
his beloved dust storms—see figure 4 below.
It’s a revelation to be looking through Masatsugu’s brilliant work in the
archives of Lowell Observatory, where all those log books of Percival Lowell
and his associates also reside—and brings home like nothing else the powerful
influence of the “personal equation” in all the observations that anyone makes.
More soon, but an interim report for friends
Best, Bill
Bill SHEEHAN (
¤•••••Subject: Venus
(December 5th.)
Received:
Hi all,
Here is
an IR image of Venus from December 5th. Some faint cloud markings are seen.
http://www.damianpeach.com/venus19/2019_12_05ir800_dp.jpg
Best
wishes,
Damian PEACH
(Selsey, WS, the
¤•••••Subject: Early Mars
Images.
Received:
Hi All,
Here on some early Mars images, taken with an 203mm (8") Newtonian
telescope.
Using a
ZWO ASI 290mm camera with a proplanet 742 filter and a 2.5X powermate.
These
images were taken during daylight hours.
Best to
all.
Tim WILSON (