Solar＆Planetary LtE Now for CMO/ISMO #42 (CMO #416)

Solar＆Planetary LtE Now for CMO/ISMO #42 (CMO #416)

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¤·····Subject: hi

Received; 31 October 06:31 JST

Dear Masatsugu,

First I want to apologize for failing to write for so long. Part of the explanation is that I do not type quickly any more, and it has been frustrating to think that there are so many things I would like to say to an old friend, when I can only write them slowly. Also, I have been trying to work as many days as my health and the economy allow. You may remember that my wife, several years younger than I am, has worked for the US government. The inability of our elected officials to agree on a budget has caused her to be furloughed (to not be able to work or be paid for her work). I have been trying to make up for some of the money she has lost due to the budget difficulty. Given my health issues, I have been very tired after working, and I have put off many good things that I might have done.

The spying on our allies that has been done by our government is inexcusable. I have liked Obama, but I do not like the spying.

You will probably remember that I was diagnosed several years ago with Parkinson's Disease. One of the first symptoms that I noticed was that I had a great deal of difficulty writing my nursing notes at the hospital. Back then we used to write the notes by hand into the patients' charts. My writing became very slow, and the harder I tried to write the less legible my writing became. My doctor also noticed that I did not swing my right arm when I walked. After an extensive battery of tests, a neurologist found that I have PD, and I began to take medicines that have mitigated some of the symptoms. While being tested for PD I continued to be employed by the hospital. Co-workers voluntarily, without being asked, helped me with my notes, often doing all of them. The people who helped me the most were my friends Tyrone Burch and his wife Pamela. Wanda Ferrera helped me a lot too.

Since the automobile accident several years ago, I have had pain in my back, partly due to arthritis, and I have also had arthritis in my knees. All of this has been hard to accept, but I have tried to prioritize and to continue to live a happy and meaningful life.

I no longer work as we say "on the floor" at the hospital. I transport patients for the hospital, mainly military patients, so I am on the road several days a week. Transporting lets me have a bit of income, but I do not have to be on my feet and experience a lot of arthritic pain.

I have read that you have had some PD and that you have some macular degeneration. PD I can understand from personal experience. I am very sorry about your eye trouble. We can hope for medical miracles.

For many years I have wanted to put on paper the poems that have been in my head and my heart. I used the recovery time to do that work. In a very real sense, although the poems were not literally written until recent years, they became real in my mind years or even decades ago. Because I can write at my own pace, I have been able to do the poetry.

Before being diagnosed with PD I did a lot of research on my family tree, and I turned my notes and emails into a book, called Exploring the Cumbia Family Tree. (My mother's maiden name was Cumbia.)

Changing to a more pleasant topic, I want to report that we had German house guests for three weeks last summer. ( You probably learned of this elsewhere.) We enjoyed their visit very much. Uta and Tyler want to go to Germany and visit Uta's relatives. They also said, believe it or not, that they would like to see Japan. I have trouble walking, and I do not feel that seeing the world is for me. If Uta and Tyler can do it, I will be happy for them.

Some time ago, I emailed some pages that I had scanned from an old Strolling Astronomer, which were part of a Japanese report published by Haas and ALPO. M Minami was one of the observers listed in the paper. If you want to see the rest of the report, I can scan it for you.

I will not try to prove that ALPO is a great organization that has added a lot to man's knowledge of the universe. I will say that it encouraged me to observe and report my observations, and it encouraged a spirit of healthy self-criticism that was good for me to see in action. ALPO has been a positive part of my life. I have also enjoyed your CMO and have learned a lot from it.

There are some other things I would like to write, but there is no more time. Maybe later....

I hope you will be well.

Samuel WHITBY (VA, the USA)

¤·····Subject: Jupiter October 30th 2013

Received; 31 October 05:20 JST

Hi All,

Please find herewith a Jupiter imaging result, dated October 30th 2013 5h19 UT.

Celestron 14”, 2.5x powermate projection, RGB filterset, dispersion corrector, webcam DMK21AU618.

Regards.

Leo AERTS (Belgium)

¤·····Subject: 2. Jupiter image October 25th 2013

Received; 29 October 12:15 JST

Hi all,

here I show an image captured at 03:26:55. Something went wrong with my first processing of the video, so I tried again with Autostackert!2 and now it worked fine. :-))

Cheers

Silvia KOWOLLIK (Ludwigsburg , Germany)

¤·····Subject: 25 October X2.1 class event

Received; 26 October 18:03 JST

The seeing was poor grade 3 to grade 5 but I caught my first X class event sequence from 14:54 to 15:42 UT it appears to trigger a shock wave see what you think?

Regards

Andrew DEVEY (West Yorkshire, the UK)

¤·····Subject: mars 25 oct

Received; 26 Oct 2013 at 12:52 JST

Hear is one capture from Mars PLS see you it Condition low.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/131025/SGh25Oct13.jpg

Regards

Sadegh GHOMIZADEH (Roudehen, IRAN)

¤·····Subject: Jupiter image October 25th 2013

Received; 26 Oct 2013 at 09:21 JST

Hi all,

first light with my new 150/1800 Macsutov-Cassegrain and the ALCCD5L-IIc from my balcony in Ludwigsburg.

Full Moon in just 9 ー distance and cirrusclouds iluminated the morning sky.

Cheers

Silvia KOWOLLIK (Ludwigsburg , Germany)

¤·····Subject: Jupiter on October 24 th 2013

Received; 26 Oct 2013 at 01:45 JST

Hi All,

I thought it to be worthwhile to show you a recent Jupiter (40”0)) result, dated October 24th 2013 at 4h06 UT together with a Ganymede (1”48) result at 3h53 UT

Imaging with C14, 2.5x powermate, RGB filterset, dispersion corrector and webcam DMK21AU618.

Best regards.

Leo AERTS (Belgium)

¤·····Subject: Re: Jupiter 23 October

Received; 25 Oct 2013 at 09:13 JST

Hello, Don,

Excellent set of pictures! It's impressive to see the structure in the GRS.

Thanks for sharing,

Padma

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On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Donald Parker <park3232@bellsouth.net> wrote:

Hi All,

I have attached some RGB Jupiter images from 23 October.

Best,
Don

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Padma YANAMANDRA-FISHER (the Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO)

¤·····Subject: CASSINI FINDS UNUSUAL TERRAIN WITHIN TITAN'S NORTH POLAR LAKE DISTRICT

Received; 24 Oct 2013 at 04:11 JST

October 23, 2013

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

One of the joys of our decade-long cruise through and around the Saturn system has been the opportunity to watch the seasons and the associated lighting conditions change on moons like Saturn's largest, Titan. With northern spring on this Earth-like, haze-enshrouded world now fully in swing, and the cloudy days of polar winter far behind, the lakes and seas of liquid methane and ethane we earlier discovered dotting its north polar region have finally come under the watchful gaze of its sensitive, infrared-capable instruments.

Images taken only recently by these instruments of this newly-illuminated region show that many of these northern liquid bodies are surrounded by a bright material not seen elsewhere on Titan. Is this an indication that with increased warmth, the seas and lakes are starting to evaporate, leaving behind a deposit of organic material ... or, in other words, the Titan equivalent of a salt-flat?

Go to ...

http://www.ciclops.org/view_event/195/

... and take a gander yourself.

[Also, below please find a press release on these new discoveries that went out a moment ago.]

Enjoy!

Carolyn PORCO (Boulder, CO)
Cassini Imaging Team leader
Director, CICLOPS

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Steve Mullins (720)974-5859
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Jia-Rui C. Cook (818)354-0850
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

Image Advisory: October 23, 2013

CASSINI GETS NEW VIEWS OF TITAN'S LAND OF LAKES

With the sun now shining down over the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan, a little luck with the weather, and trajectories that put the spacecraft into optimal viewing positions, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has obtained new pictures of the liquid methane and ethane seas and lakes that reside near Titan's north pole. The images reveal new clues about how the lakes formed and about Titan's Earth-like "hydrologic" cycle, which involves hydrocarbons rather than water.

The new images are available online at: http://ciclops.org and http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/index.html

While there is one large lake and a few smaller ones near Titan's south pole, almost all of Titan's lakes appear near the moon's north pole. Cassini scientists have been able to study much of the terrain with radar, which can penetrate beneath Titan's clouds and thick haze. And until now, Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer and imaging science subsystem had only been able to capture distant, oblique or partial views of this area.

Several factors combined recently to give these instruments great observing opportunities. Two recent flybys provided better viewing geometry. Sunlight has begun to pierce the winter darkness that shrouded Titan's north pole at Cassini's arrival in the Saturn system nine years ago. A thick cap of haze that once hung over the north pole has also dissipated as northern summer approaches. And Titan's beautiful, nearly cloudless, rain-free weather continued during Cassini's flybys this past summer.

The images are mosaics in infrared light based on data obtained during flybys of Titan on July 10, July 26, and Sept. 12, 2013. The colorized mosaic from the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer, which maps infrared colors onto the visible-color spectrum, reveals differences in the composition of material around the lakes. The data suggest parts of Titan's lakes and seas may have evaporated and left behind the Titan equivalent of Earth's salt flats. Only at Titan, the evaporated material is thought to be organic chemicals originally from Titan's haze particles that once dissolved in liquid methane. They appear orange in this image against the greenish backdrop of Titan's typical bedrock of water ice.

"The view from Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer gives us a holistic view of an area that we'd only seen in bits and pieces before and at a lower resolution," said Jason Barnes, a participating scientist for the instrument at the University of Idaho, Moscow. "It turns out that Titan's north pole is even more interesting than we thought, with a complex interplay of liquids in lakes and seas and deposits left from the evaporation of past lakes and seas."

The near-infrared images from Cassini's imaging cameras show a bright unit of terrain in the northern land of lakes that had not previously been visible in the data. The bright area suggests that the surface here is unique from the rest of Titan, which might explain why almost all of the lakes are found in this region. Titan's lakes have very distinctive shapes -- rounded cookie-cutter silhouettes and steep sides -- and a variety of formation mechanisms have been proposed. The explanations range from the collapse of land after a volcanic eruption to karst terrain, where liquids issolve soluble bedrock. Karst terrains on Earth can create spectacular topography such as the Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico.

"Ever since the lakes and seas were discovered, we've been wondering why they're concentrated at high northern latitudes," said Elizabeth (Zibi) Turtle, a Cassini imaging team associate based at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md. "So, seeing that there's something special about the surface in this region is a big clue to help narrow down the possible explanations."

Launched in 1997, Cassini has been exploring the Saturn system since 2004. A full Saturn year is 30 years, and Cassini has been able to observe nearly a third of a Saturn year. In that time, Saturn and its moons have seen the seasons change from northern winter to northern summer.

"Titan's northern lakes region is one of the most Earth-like and intriguing in the solar system," said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist, based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "We know lakes here change with the seasons, and Cassini's long mission at Saturn gives us the opportunity to watch the seasons change at Titan, too. Now that the sun is shining in the north and we have these wonderful views, we can begin to compare the different data sets and tease out what Titan's lakes are doing near the north pole."

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Science Mission
Directorate, Washington, D.C. The imaging team consists of scientists from the US, England, France, and Germany. The visual and infrared
mapping spectrometer team is based at the University of Arizona. The imaging operations center and team lead (Dr. C. Porco) are based at the
Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.

For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission, visit
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and the Cassini imaging team home page,
http://ciclops.org.

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¤·····Subject: Your Place in Space News: October 2013

Received; 22 Oct 2013 at 14:31 JST

View Online
http://support.planetary.org/site/R?i=gA0eYTuGABVgm7CEHMsKqg

Let's Change the World

Twenty years ago the first ever episode of "The Science Guy" aired on PBS. From the very beginning, we had one objective: to Change the World. Every single person who worked on the show received a copy of this document, or what I like to call "the rules of the road." After all this time, nothing about that goal has changed.

Looking back, it's an amazing feeling knowing deep down, that somehow this little show we started inside a Seattle warehouse helped inspire a generation. It means a great deal to me that there are young people out there changing the world the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math. I'm honored to have played a role in that, however small or large that may have been. Let's not stop now. Here's to another 20 years of creating change.

Bill NYE

---- Curiosity ------------------------------------------------

Curiosity Wheel

Yes, there seems to be a hole in Curiosity's left front wheel, and no, that's not a problem

Some brand-new images just arrived from Curiosity on Mars. We absolutely love these photos of wheels sitting on the surface of Mars These new images contained two little surprises. Holes in Curiosity's wheels are expected and are absolutely not a problem at all. Don't freak out.

http://support.planetary.org/site/R?i=sfFSk07OHBSxa0wJ2bHFLQ

------- Juno ----------------------------------------------

Juno is in safe mode, but okay and on course following Earth flyby

Following its Earth flyby earlier, Juno is in safe mode. This is the protective state a spacecraft goes into when it detects a problem. But everything is okay. For more details, Emily Lakdawalla spoke with Rick Nybakken, Juno Project Manager at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Read more?
http://support.planetary.org/site/R?i=uN4flc4Hdj54zm5yqRBXDQ

------- Kaguya ----------------------------------------------

Swan Song from Kaguya

The Kaguya lunar orbiter launched six years ago this month by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The mission returned volumes of valuable data, not to mention some of the most amazing video and images sent by any space mission in history.

Kaguya remained on the moon and never returned, but not before gifting us with its swan song of knowledge and images that will not be forgotten for a very long time.

Read more>>
http://support.planetary.org/site/R?i=tAEmn2K5dWvd0kzUH0Zlqg

------ SpaceX & Cygnus -----------------------------------------------

A Big Day for Commercial Spaceflight

Sunday, September 29, 2013, was a big day for commercial spaceflight. Orbital Sciences Corporation's Cygnus resupply spacecraft was captured by the International Space Station's robotic arm and SpaceX's upgraded Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base carrying Canada's CASSIOPE satellite.

Read more
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Introducing Cosmos with Cosmos

Let's grab a drink and watch the original Cosmos together. We'll provide write-ups and discussion every week through the entire original series.

Get together with your friends!
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NASA's MAVEN mission spared from shutdown, launch preparations will resume

Launch preparations will resume for NASA's MAVEN spacecraft, due to launch to Mars on November 18th. Work had previously been suspended, potentially causing the spacecraft to miss its once-every-26-month launch opportunity.

Read more
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This month on our Planetary Radio Podcast...

* Starship Century Book Guest: Gregory and James Benford

* Can We Touch the Stars? Guest: Lou Friedman at the 100-Year Starship Symposium

* MAVEN Mars Mission Guest: Bruce Jakosky

* LADEE Launch on Minotaur 5 at Wallops?

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¤·····Subject: Mars image - Oct. 19, 2013

Received; 21 Oct 2013 at 07:03 JST

Gentlemen,

Attached is a set of Mars images from October 19, 2013. Seeing was no better than average.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/131019/PGc19Oct13.jpg

Regards,

Peter GORCZYNSKI (Oxford, CT)

¤·····Subject: Jupiter October 19th 2013

Received; 21 Oct 2013 at 00:42 JST

Hi All,

I thought it to be worthwhile to show you a recent Jupiter (39"7) result, dated October 19th 2013 at 4h04 UT.

A close passage of Jupiter moons Io (1"00) and Europe (0"87) are also included.

Imaging with C14, 2.5x powermate, RGB filterset, dispersion corrector and webcam DMK21AU618.

Best regards.

Leo AERTS (Belgium)

¤·····Subject: Jupiter images 18 October 2013

Received; 19 Oct 2013 at 21:08 JST

Jupiter images (J131018)

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, the PHILIPPINES)

¤·····Subject: Animation Jupiter triple transit

Received; 19 Oct 2013 at 17:54 JST

Hi all,

Here a small animation of a rare triple transit last Saturday. After enormous rainfall the sky cleared up in the morning and despite I overslept myself an hour (ouch!) I was able to image this rare event. Images are from 5h18 UT to 6h12 UT.

Also on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX4gQWPQmys

Astro Physics 180EDT f/9 working at f/27 (Meade 5000 3x Barlow) ASH dispersion corrector
DMK21AU618
Astronomik RGB filters

Best,

Jan KOET (Wateringen, the Netherlands)

¤·····Subject: Jupiter images 17 October 2013

Received; 18 Oct 2013 at 21:49 JST

Jupiter images (J131017)

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, the PHILIPPINES)

¤·····Subject: Jupiter images 15, 16 October 2013

Received; 18 Oct 2013 at 12:06 JST

Jupiter images (J131015)

Jupiter images (J131016)

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, the PHILIPPINES)

¤·····Subject: Jupiter images 13 October 2013

Received; 18 Oct 2013 at 06:25 JST

Hi all, some images taken under fairly good seeing (though not excellent).
There is an outbreak in the SEB that is most interesting in CH4, the chain of alternative bright and dark spots reveals the convective movements.

http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-10-13_04-31_lrgb_cp
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-10-13_04-07_ch4_cp

http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-10-13_03-42_rir_cp
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-10-13_05-12_rgb_cp

Best wishes,

PELLIER Christophe (Nantes, FRANCE)

Planetary Astronomy and Imaging

¤·····Subject: mars.17.oct

Received; 18 Oct 2013 at 03:14 JST

This is the first images from 2013 seeing was soso PLS see you them

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/131017/SGh17Oct13.jpg

Best wishes

Sadegh GHOMIZADEH (Roudehen, IRAN)

¤·····Subject: Mars 10 October

Received; 17 Oct 2013 at 11:46 JST

Hi All,
I have attached an RGB Mars image from 10 October.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/131010/DPk10Oct13.jpg

Best,

Donald PARKER (Coral Gables, FL)

¤·····Subject: Mars, Aug.11th, Sept.23rd, Oct.7th

Received; 16 Oct 2013 at 04:09 JST

Hi Mr. Minami,

I send some belated images taken earlier and with my most recent session from Oct.7th,

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/131007/EMr07Oct13.jpg

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/130923/EMr23Sept13.jpg

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/130811/EMr11Aug13.jpg

Clear Skies to All!

Efrain MORALES　(Peruto Rico)

¤·····Subject: Jupiter 13 Oct 2013(after one rotation )

Received; 15 Oct 2013 at 02:27 JST

Hi all

I attach　Jupiter image on 13 October 2013(after one rotation).

Thank you Mr.Gray　walker（Macon　Georgia　USA). Attached Jupiter image was to follow the changes in the surface of Jupiter after one rotation. Exactly, there is 10 hour time difference the Philippines and the United States, you can follow the change of the Jupiter surface.
From the difference in rotation speed of the rotation system 1, 2, form is constantly changing. This is best described by looking at animation image

Sorry, 　I did uproad my animation gif to Facebook ,but it can not work.

Best Wishes

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, the PHILIPPINES)

¤·····Subject: Jupiter images on 3 October 2013

Received; 14 Oct 2013 at 23:37 JST

Jupiter Images (J131013)

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, the PHILIPPINES)

¤·····Subject: Re:Venus image from 12th October 2013

Received; 14 Oct 2013 at 14:09 JST

Hello, Bird,

I was getting curious about the recent spate of beautiful Venus images that you have been posting - this explains it.

There is a FB group devoted to Venus that might be a good start -

although I am curious: can you use the UV filter to observe Jup or Sat or any comets?

Padma YANAMANDRA-FISHER (the Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO)

¤·····Subject: Venus image from 12th October 2013

Received; 14 Oct 2013 at 14:09 JST

Hi all,

I've become interested in images of Venus recently, I have an Astrodon UVenus filter (325-380nm) that seems to do a good job. I won't post images here for this off-topic planet unless you all want them, but if you know of any researchers or academics that are into Venus then please let me know so I can put together a venus mailing list.

Link:
http://www.acquerra.com.au/astro/gallery/venus/20131012-071828/large.jpg

cheers, Anthony

Anthony Wesley (Australia)

¤·····Subject: Mars images (October 6th.)

Received; 14 Oct 2013 at 02:54 JST

Hi all,

Here are some Mars images from Oct 6th.

The Solis Lacus/Tharsis hemisphere was visible with some clouds visible across the Martian disk.

http://www.damianpeach.com/mars1314/2013_10_06rgb.jpg

Best Wishes

Damian PEACH (Selsey, West Sussex, the UK)

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¤·····Subject Jupiter 2013/10/06

Received; 13 Oct 2013 at 07:09 JST

My second session of the opposition, good seeing conditions

http://www.astrosurf.com/pcasquinha/jup131006.jpg

Regards

Paulo CASQUINHA (Portugal)

¤·····Subject: Uranus image 6th October 2013

Received; 12 Oct 2013 at 08:25 JST

Hi all
Here is another Uranus image taken in R+IR, showing equatorial and polar belts.

http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/u2013-10-06_00-24_rir_cp

Best wishes,

PELLIER Christophe (Nantes, FRANCE)

Planetary Astronomy and Imaging

¤·····Subject: Solar Images 8-Oct-2013

Received; 11 Oct 2013 at 00:56 JST

Hi Guys

There was a massive prominence on this morning, Tantalisingly visible on Gong but I was in very low fast moving cloud. I managed a few broken runs as gaps occurred.

Thanks for the heads up David F.

Best wishes

Dave TYLER (Bucks, the UK)

www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE

¤·····Subject: solar Images 6-Oct-2013

Received; 10 Oct 2013 at 18:52 JST

Hi Guys,

The 6th had some fascinating phenomena on show. A spectacular filprom here captured with double a stacked Coro 90. The fields of ar1856 and ar1857 overlapped , I have presented them separate and linked.

The 1043 ut prominence looks like one of the creature's tongues from one of the best films ever, " Tremors" !

Best wishes

Dave TYLER (Bucks, the UK)

www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE

¤·····Subject: Jupiter 2013/10/05

Received; 10 Oct 2013 at 06:51 JST

here is my first session of this opposition, fair seeing conditions.

IO and Europa double transit with Io’s shadow on the first image of the sequence.

http://www.astrosurf.com/pcasquinha/jup131005.jpg

My best regards

Paulo CASQUINHA (Portugal)

¤·····Subject: Jupiter 2013.10.08

Received; 10 Oct 2013 at 06:05 JST

Dears,

Under conditions improving very late just before the sunrise:

RGB with GRS setting (with some detail inside), and a nice eruptive spot very bright not far from CM in SEB. Please note the two thin braun projections from NEB into NTZ, on each side of CM.

　　　　　　　http://astrosurf.com/delcroix/images/planches/j20131008-04h27.8UT-MDe.jpg

IR:　http://astrosurf.com/delcroix/images/planches/j20131008i-04h16.2UT-MDe.jpg

In CH4 absorption band with Io, the SEB eruption rising higher in the atmosphere is very bright:

http://astrosurf.com/delcroix/images/planches/j20131008c-04h42.1UT-MDe.jpg

The perturbations in SEB are very nice in the color layers:

http://astrosurf.com/delcroix/images/planches/j20131008r-04h27.0UT-MDe.jpg
http://astrosurf.com/delcroix/images/planches/j20131008g-04h27.8UT-MDe.jpg
http://astrosurf.com/delcroix/images/planches/j20131008b-04h28.6UT-MDe.jpg

Sincerely,

Marc DELCROIX (Tournefeuille, FRANCE)

http://astrosurf.com/delcroix

¤·····Subject: Jupiter images - 7 October 2013

Received; 09 Oct 2013 at 06:26 JST

Hi all,
Some images taken under excellent seeing but through the fog for B and LRGB.

http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-10-07_05-07_lrgb_cp
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-10-07_04-58_b_cp
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-10-07_04-04_ir_cp

http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-10-07_04-19_ch4_cp
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-10-07_04-39_uv_cp

Best wishes,

PELLIER Christophe (Nantes, FRANCE)

Planetary Astronomy and Imaging

¤·····Subject: Mars 26 September

Received; 07 Oct 2013 at 11:49 JST

Hi All,
I have attached belated RGB and NIR Mars images from 26 September.
Note the dark streak extending northeast from Crocea, giving the eastern border of Syrtis Major a somewhat different aspect than previous apparitions.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/130926/DPk26Sept13.jpg

Best,

Donald PARKER (Coral Gables, FL)

¤·····Subject: Jupiter images on 5 October 2013

Received; 07 Oct 2013 at 00:44 JST

Jupiter Image (J131005)

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, the PHILIPPINES)

¤·····Subject: Jupiter images on 3 October 2013

Received; 04 Oct 2013 at 18:37 JST

Jupiter Image (J131003)

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, the PHILIPPINES)

¤·····Subject: Re: EPSC2013 collaboration pro-am session

Received; 02 Oct 2013 at 20:07 JST

Dear Marc (and other conveners),

Thanks for the links and pictures of the 2013 EPSC/Am Ast session and other pics -

you folks did a great job of organizing and running the splinter workshop, too.

Hope I can make it to Portugal next year.

Padma YANAMANDRA-FISHER (the Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO)

¤·····Subject: EPSC2013 collaboration pro-am session

Received; 02 Oct 2013 at 15:12 JST

Dears,

On Sept. 12th, 2013 in London I had the honour to chair the European Planetary Science Congress 2013 pro-am collaboration session, prepared with Christophe Pellier (SAF), John Rogers (BAA), Richard Miles (BAA) and professional astronomers Leigh Fletcher and Tollis Christou (Many thanks to all). Session went very well, with excellent quality presentations (and posters) which interested very much a good size audience. Please find these presentations along with the abstracts of both oral and poster sessions, and ambiance pictures shot mainly by the well known Greek amateur Manos Kardasis (thanks to him!) :

http://www.astrosurf.com/delcroix/doc/EPSC2013/EPSC2013.htm

Rendez-vous next year for another successful session in Portugal I hope!

Marc DELCROIX (Tournefeuille, FRANCE)

http://astrosurf.com/delcroix

¤·····Subject: Jupiter images, 24 september 2013

Received; 01 Oct 2013 at 07:39 JST

Hi guys,
Here are my first good images of the season...

http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-09-24_05-28_rgb_cp
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-09-24_05-24_r_cp
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-09-24_05-20_b_cp
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-09-24_04-52_ch4_cp
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-09-24_04-37_ir_cp

Best wishes,

Christophe PELLIER (Nantes, FRANCE)

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