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¤·····Subject: Mars image -
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Gentlemen,
Attached is a set of
images captured in less than average seeing.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/131227/PGc27Dec13.jpg
Regards,
Peter GORCZYNSKI (
¤·····Subject: Mars on 24th of Dec 2013
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Hi everyone,
Please find attached
my first Mars image for the apparition. The seeing was rather poor.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/131224/SBd24Dec13.jpg
Best regards,
Stefan BUDA (
¤·····Subject: Jupiter 2013 December 10 (further)
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Herefs some further
images from December 10, but the other end of the day. These were taken well
before culmination, which was good because after
Ifve noticed some
very small errors in the image timings in the previous set I sent, so here they
are again with correction.
Happy Christmas
David ARDITTI (
http://staglaneobservatory.co.uk
¤·····Subject: Mars 21,
22 November;
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http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/131121/Mo21Nov13.jpg
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/131122/Mo22Nov13.jpg
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/131208/Mo08Dec13.jpg
Yukio MORITA (
¤·····Subject: Jupiter images on 17 & 21 December 2013
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Jupiter images
(J131217)
Jupiter images
(J131221)
Tomio AKUTSU (
¤·····Subject: Jupiter 2013 December 10
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I had a busy night;
seeing was unusually good for this location. Ian Sharp reported exceptional
seeing in
First row are RGB
composites. Second row are the same data but presented using an LRGB process,
which gives more contrasty results, but worse artefacts. Third row are
Infra-red images at 742nm, with Callisto just emerged from occultation in the
second one.
In total, 24
one-minute videos were processed to give this set.
David ARDITTI (
http://staglaneobservatory.co.uk
¤·····Subject: Joyeux Noël
!!!
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Meilleurs
voeux pour un Noël plein de joies
et
une nouvelle année remplie de bonheur.
Gérard TEICHERT (
¤·····Subject:
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Repeat the sounding joy!
We on the Cassini imaging team deliver to the world this holiday season... what
else! ... the gift of heavenly imagery starring the majestic globe of Saturn
and its two most astounding moons, Titan and Enceladus.
In this, our 10th Christmas offering from across the hundreds of millions of
miles that lie between us and Saturn, you will find some of the most splendid
and fascinating sights this historic exploration of the ringed planet has
uncovered: the hexagonally-shaped jet stream encircling the pole in Saturn's
northern hemisphere, the graceful shadows of its rings arcing across its south,
the northern lakes and seas of liquid organics hidden under the hazy atmosphere
of Titan, the brilliant ball of glittering ice that is the small active world
of Enceladus, and more.
Spend a moment or two at ...
http://www.ciclops.org/view_event/197
... and revel in the marvels that our travels in this far-flung planetary
system have brought.
[Below please find our news release that went out earlier today.]
Happy Holidays to all!
Carolyn PORCO (
Cassini Imaging Team leader
Director, CICLOPS
http://twitter.com/carolynporco
http://www.facebook.com/carolynporco
http://carolynporco.com
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MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE
CASSINI IMAGING CENTRAL LABORATORY FOR OPERATIONS (CICLOPS)
SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE, BOULDER, COLORADO
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Steve Mullins (720)974-5859
CICLOPS/Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.
Jia-Rui C. Cook (818)354-0850
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Image Advisory: December 23, 2013
SATURN AND TWO OF ITS MOONS SPRUCE UP THE HOLIDAYS
Saturn and two of its most fascinating moons, Titan and Enceladus, are
Cassini's gifts to you this holiday season. Eagerly awaiting your eyes, all
three bodies are dressed and dazzling in this special package assembled by the
Cassini imaging team.
The new images are available online at: http://ciclops.org
and http://www.nasa.gov
<http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/index.html>
Two different views of Enceladus are included in our package and highlight the
many fissures, fractures and ridges that decorate the icy moon's surface.
Enceladus is a white, glittering snowball of a moon, now famous for the nearly
hundred geysers that are spread across its south polar region and spout tiny
icy particles into space. Most of these particles fall back to the surface as
snow. Some small fraction escapes the gravity of Enceladus and makes its way
into orbit around Saturn, forming the planet's extensive and diffuse E ring.
Because these geysers are believed to be directly connected to a subsurface,
salty, organic-rich, liquid water reservoir, Enceladus is home to one of the
most accessible extraterrestrial habitable zones in the solar system.
Packaged along with Saturn and Enceladus is a group of natural color images of
Saturn's largest moon, Titan, highighting two of Titan's most outstanding
features. Peering through Titan's hazy orange atmosphere, the Cassini
narrow-angle camera spots dark, splotchy features in the polar regions of the
moon. These features are the lakes and seas of liquid hydrocarbons for which
the moon is renowned. Titan is the only other place in the solar system that we
know has stable liquids on its surface, though in Titan's case, the liquids are
ethane and methane rather than water. At Titan's south pole, a swirling high
altitude vortex stands out distinctly against the darkness of the moon's unilluminated
atmosphere. Titan's hazy atmosphere and surface environment are believed to be
similar in certain respects to the early atmosphere of Earth, making Titan a
valuable resource for further study. Combined, all of Titan's stunning features
make a perfect gift of beauty for everyone this holiday season.
While gifts wrapped in ornate packaging stir up excitement and wonder, nothing
grabs our attention quite like the majestic tree that they surround, and no
holiday package would be complete without a few pictures of the celestial
wonder that towers over these impressive moons. The north and south poles of
Saturn itself are highlighted this season and appear drastically different from
each other in the natural color views released today. The globe of Saturn resembles
a Christmas tree ornament in a wide-angle image overlooking its north pole,
bringing into view the hexagonal jet stream and rapidly spinning polar vortex
that reside there. And the planet's south pole, now in winter, looking very
different than the springtime north, displays brilliant blue hues, reminiscent
of a frosty winter wonderland.
'During this, our tenth holiday season at Saturn', said Carolyn Porco, leader
for the imaging team on Cassini, 'we hope that these images from Cassini remind
everyone the world over of the magnitude of our accomplishments and the
significance of our discoveries in exploring such a remote and alien planetary
system. Happy Holidays... from all of us at Saturn to all of you'.
Launched in 1997, Cassini has explored the Saturn system for more than nine
years. NASA plans to continue the mission through 2017, with the anticipation
of more ground-breaking science and imagery of Saturn, its rings and moons to
come.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European
Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL),
a division of the California Institute of Technology in
For more information visit http://ciclops.org,
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov
and http://www.nasa.gov/cassini.
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¤·····Subject: mars.22 dec
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Hi all
Merry Christmas & Happy new year again, condition
was poor I took in -7 degrees weather this image .
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/131222/SGh22Dec13.jpg
Best Wishes
Sadegh
GHOMIZADEH (
¤·····Subject: Jupiter 11 December
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Hi
All,
I have attached a belated RGB
Jupiter image from 11 December.
Wishing
you all a great Christmas and New Year,
Don
PARKER (
¤·····Subject: Apollo 8 Earthrise re-creation
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Hi
all,
I wanted
to let you know about a new video NASA has produced, which I narrated and
helped to develop, re-creating the Apollo 8 Earthrise.
You
can see it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE-vOscpiNc
I
wish you all a good holiday and hope to connect in 2014!
Andrew
CHAIKIN (
¤·····Subject: Jupiter images December 10(11) 2013
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Hi,
Here an overview of Jupiter
regards,
Richard
BOSMAN (Ensched, the
¤·····Subject: Jupiter images - 10th December 2013
Received;
Hi
all,
Here are the results of my last good night... now clouds and rain are back
again.
The SEB outbreak f. the GRS is still going on.
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-10_02-49_rgb_cp
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-10_03-07_rir_cp
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-10_01-56_ch4_cp
Clear
sky to all!
Christophe
PELLIER (
Planetary Astronomy
and Imaging
¤·····Subject: Mars - December 12th
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Hi Mr.Minami, Here is
my latest session from 12th
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/131212/EMr12Dec13.jpg
Efrain MORALES (
¤·····Subject: A Happy (Martian) Christmas
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Dear Mars friends:
I send you my best wishes for the Festive Season and for 2014. Attached is a
selection of my best drawings of the planet at each opposition from 1995 till
2010. I look forward to receiving any observations you may make of the Red
Planet in 2014. There will be a note about the opposition in the 2014 February
number of the BAA Journal, and this will be posted at the BAA Mars Section
website in due course.
Yours Ever
Richard McKIM (
¤·····Subject: Mars 2013/12/13
Hello,
Here is Mars on 2013/12/13.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/131213/JPp13Dec13.jpg
The seeing and the
transparency were average.@@
T = -2.5[C
Regards
Jean-Jacques POUPEAU (Essonne, FRANCE)
¤·····Subject: Jupiter images
Jupiter images
(J131211)
Tomio AKUTSU (
¤·····Subject: Jupiter images
Hi
all,
Some images from the 8th with Oval BA.
I find strange that the cyclonic oval of SSTB (the one located between two AWO,
a little further north) is methane-bright...
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-08_01-51_rgb_cp
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-08_02-55_rgb_cp
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-08_01-33_ir_cp
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-08_02-14_ch4_cp
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-08_02-41_uv_cp
Best wishes,
Christophe
PELLIER (
Planetary Astronomy
and Imaging
¤·····Subject:
Hi Christophe,
these images are excellent!
This night I also was able to capture the WSZ with my 6" Mak and the
ALCCD5L-IIc just before the clouds rolled in...
Under good conditions observer with smal telescopes can also catch these
structure. :-)
Cheers
Silvia KOWOLLIK (
¤·····Subject: Solar Images
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Hi
Guys there were a few fascinating sights up there on the 9th. Especially the
very fast changing "black flame" filament from the flare in AR 1917.
Pity about the poor seeing.
All
Images 90mm Coro DS, The type with the fixed tune secondary 60mm dia etalon
positioned nearer to the focus.
Best
wishes
Dave TYLER (Bucks, the
www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE
¤·····Subject: Jupiter 12/07: full multispectral set on WSZ
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Hi
all,
Here are the results of a second clear night, under very good seeing. The
reddened WSZ is well visible, and I would agree to say that it is joining the
club of the red spots on Jupiter...
A
new red spot on Jupiter?
I did a comparison with 2012
multispectral data in the first RGB image:
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-07_01-31_rgb_cp
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-07_03-07_lrgb_cp
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-07_01-35_b_cp
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-07_02-59_b_cp
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-07_02-39_ir_cp
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-07_02-16_ch4_cp
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-07_01-48_uv_cp
Best wishes,
Christophe
PELLIER (
Planetary Astronomy
and Imaging
¤·····Subject: Jupiter images on
Received;
Jupiter images
(J131207)
Tomio AKUTSU (
¤·····Subject: Mars image -
Received;
Gentlemen,
Seeing was
on the poor side this morning. The soft detail in the R image is
testimony to that.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/131208/PGc08Dec13.jpg
Regards,
Peter GORCZYNSKI (
¤·····Subject: Jupiter 2013 October 29
Received;
Herefs a Jupiter
image just processed from earlier in the apparition.
David ARDITTI (
http://staglaneobservatory.co.uk
¤·····Subject: Jupiter images
Received;
Hi
all,
I finally had some good nights this week, after more than a month of very poor
weather. Here are images from the 4th, good seeing, but fair transparency.
There was a barometric marsh
that night, one of the situation that favors good seeing :)
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-03_23-58_ir_cp
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-04_00-31_rgb_cp
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-04_00-59_rir_cp
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-04_02-05_rgb_cp
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-04_01-15_ch4_cp
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-04_01-38_uv_cp
Best wishes,
Christophe
PELLIER (
Planetary Astronomy
and Imaging
¤·····Subject: Solar Images
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Hi Guys The sun here peaked at only 16 degrees ALT' on
the 6th, so I felt lucky to be able to record some of that days phenomena in
reasonable detail.
Camera Flea 3 1/4 inch chip
Ha Images Coronado 90 Double stacked .
"White light" spots with
Best wishes
Dave TYLER (Bucks, the
www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE
¤·····Subject: Jupiter 2013 December 05
Received;
Somewhat
disappointing seeing, this is what I have managed to salvage from a single RGB
run.
David ARDITTI (
http://staglaneobservatory.co.uk
¤·····Subject: Jupiter images on
Received;
Jupiter images
(J131204)
Tomio AKUTSU (
¤·····Subject: Mars image -
Received;
Gentlemen,
Seeing was
only average. Transparency was poor with the images captured through thin
clouds.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/131204/PGc04Dec13.jpg
Regards,
Peter GORCZYNSKI (
¤·····Subject: Cassini views Saturns polar hexagon
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In case some people here haven't seen this:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-350
cheers,
Anthony WESLEY (NSW,
¤·····Subject: Mars image -
Received;
Gentlemen,
Here is a set of Mars images from December 3 captured
under a very steady sky.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/131203/PGc03Dec13.jpg
Regards,
Peter GORCZYNSKI (
¤·····Subject: Jupiter images
Received;
02 December
Jupiter images
(J131201)
Tomio AKUTSU (
¤·····Subject: Jupiter images
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02 December
Hi all,
here some images taken under average conditions. During the night, several
times clouds prevented the observation at regular intervals and towards the end
of the observation, it was unfortunately foggy so I could not complete the map.
Silvia KOWOLLIK (
¤·····Subject: Mars image -
Received;
Gentlemen,
Attached is
a set of Mars images from the morning of
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/131130/PGc30Nov13.jpg
Regards,
Peter GORCZYNSKI (
¤·····Subject: Mars images
Received;
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/131130/Ak30Nov13.jpg
Jupiter images (J131130)
Saturn image
(S131131)
Tomio AKUTSU (
¤·····Subject: Mars:
Received;
Hi
I am sending you my
first image of Mars this season
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/131130/FMl30Nov13.jpg
Thanks,
Frank J MELILLO (