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¤·····Subject: Mars
images
Received: 31 May 2014 at 22:26 JST
Dear Sirs,
Please find the attached Mars image set taken in fair to good seeing.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140529/MJs29May14.jpg
Best regards,
Mark JUSTICE (
¤·····Subject: Mars
2014/05/30
Received: 31 May 2014 at 19:13 JST
Hello,
An image under poor seeing and transparency.
Distinct South polar haze &
Clouds over Utopia to Boreosyrtis has formed.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140530/MKd30May14.jpg
http://www.hellas-astro.gr/sites/default/files/images/observations/mars/2014-05-30-19-05-00_1822.jpg
Manos KARDASIS (
¤·····Subject: Mars
M140530 ishibashi
Received: 31 May 2014 at 15:11 JST
Mars imsges on
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140530/Is30May14.jpg
Tsutomu ISHIBASHI (
¤·····Subject: Mars
images
Received: 31 May 2014 at 13:45 JST
Dear Sirs,
Please find the attached Mars image set taken in fair seeing but with very poor
transparency.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140525/MJs25May14.jpg
Best regards,
Mark JUSTICE (
¤·····Subject: Jupiter
Observations -
Received: 31 May 2014 at 09:26 JST
Backlog Jupiter
observations, had visitors coming over...
So here are my Jupiter
observations from
Freddy WILLEMS (
¤·····Subject: Mars:
Received: 31 May 2014 at 08:22 JST
Hi -
I have
attached my latest image of Mars
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140530/FMl30May14.jpg
Thanks,
Frank J MELILLO (
¤·····Subject: Mars
2014/05/29-Kumamori
Received: 30 May 2014 at 18:25 JST
Dear Mr. MINAMI,
Mars images on
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140529/Km29May14.jpg
Best
regards,
Teruaki KUMAMORI (
¤·····Subject: Error
on previous Mars image
Received: 30 May 2014 at 13:10 JST
Hi All,
I put the wrong date on the 28 May Mars image. It should be 29 May.
I have resubmitted the image with the correct parameters. Sorry for the inconvenience!
More senior moments!
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140529/DPk29May14.jpg
Best,
Don PARKER (
¤·····Subject: Mars 28
May
Received: 30 May 2014 at 12:39 JST
Hi All,
I have attached RGB Mars images from 28 May.
There was Strong Blue Clearing (2-3/3).
This was also also noted visually by Jeff Beish who observed with
me.
A large cloud was seen curling around Acidalium from
Numerous small clouds are seen,including a bright cloud in
northern
A bright cloud is seen over Argyre on SW limb.
Best,
Don PARKER (
¤·····Subject: Mars 29th May UT
Received: 29 May 2014 at 23:01 JST
Here
is an image of Mars taken this evening in average seeing.
I still have some data to process from earlier this month which I will send as
soon as possible.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140529/MVl29May14.jpg
Best wishes
Maurice VALIMBERTI (
¤·····Subject: Mars
2014/05/28-Kumamori
Received: 29 May 2014 at 21:54 JST
Dear Mr. MINAMI,
Mars images on
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140528/Km28May14.jpg
Best
regards,
Teruaki KUMAMORI (
¤·····Subject: Solar
Images 12-14-16th-May-2014
Received: 29 May 2014 at 09:02 JST
Hi Guys this clears my backlog of solar images.
I hope they are not too much in one go, but they do give flavour
of what's been going on up there.
Best wishes
Dave TYLER (Bucks, the
www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE
¤·····Subject: Mars
images (
Received: 29 May 2014 at 03:44 JST
Hi all,
Here are some Mars images from April 18th. Skies were mostly
cloudy and this was the only image possible. Luckily seeing was very good
(though the B image was affected by clouds.) Again plenty of clouds visible
across the disk.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140418/DPc18Apr14.jpg
http://www.damianpeach.com/mars1314/2014_04_18rgb02.jpg
Best Wishes
Damian PEACH (Selsey, WS, the
¤·····Subject: Mars:
Received: 28 May 2014 at 12:39 JST
Hi -
I have attached my latest image of Mars
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140526/FMl26May14.jpg
Thanks,
Frank J MELILLO (
¤·····Subject: Mars
Received: 27 May 2014 at 22:39 JST
Here is an image of Mars taken on the 23rd May UT in fair seeing conditions.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140523/MVl23May14.jpg
Best wishes
Maurice VALIMBERTI (
¤·····Subject: Mars
and Saturn 25th-May-2014
Received: 27 May 2014 at 22:15 JST
Hi Guys
Here are a couple of images taken one after the other of Mars and
Saturn. Once again I was surprised by the comparatively gentle seeing for
Saturn after the manic Mars. I guess the lower mag had something to do with it.
Going to white light for a Luminance allowed a jump to 30fps and a bit less
gain. ADC's make this approach viable at these low declinations.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140525/DTy25May14.jpg
There seems to be a faint white spot to the right of Saturn's
polar hexagon, I am sure you can compare data with your logs here Trevor.
Best wishes
Dave TYLER (Bucks, the
www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE
¤·····Subject: Mars 26
May
Received: 27 May 2014 at 12:56 JST
Hi All,
I have attached RGB Mars images from 26 May. The seeing was highly variable.
There was a large diffuse cloud over Candor-Tempe with wisps across southern
Chryse.
Clouds were over Cydonia and Deucalionis. A southern limb cloud is seen over
Argyre.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140526/DPk26May14.jpg
Best,
Don PARKER (
¤·····Subject: Mars 22
May
Received: 27 May 2014 at 08:43 JST
Hi All,
I have attached RGB Mars images from 22 May.
The peaks of Ascraeus and Pavonis Montes are seen above bright Tharsis
clouds.
S. limb Cloud is over Argyre. Wispy clouds are seen over
Erythraeum-Coprates.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140522/DPk22May14.jpg
Best,
Don PARKER (
¤·····Subject: Mars
Received: 27 May 2014 at 05:04 JST
Hi,
Bright Hellas cloud and obvious gibbous phase in this image in difficult conditions
last Friday- first time this apparition with Syrtis Major fully on view for me.
Mars getting noticeably smaller now
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140516/MLw16May14.jpg
See
this image and other recent Mars images at;
http://www.skyinspector.co.uk/Mars-and-Venus(2370659).htm
Cheers,
Martin LEWIS (
¤·····Subject: Mars
image - May 26
Received: 27 May 2014 at 01:51 JST
Gentlemen,
This
set of images is captured in less than average seeing through a layer of thin
clouds.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140526/PGc26May14.jpg
Regards,
Peter GORCZYNSKI (
¤·····Subject: Mars
images (
Received: 26 May 2014 at 22:12 JST
Hi
all,
Here
are some Mars images from April 17th. Very good seeing for the RGB image though
less good for the B filter images.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140417/DPc17Apr14.jpg
RGB: http://www.damianpeach.com/mars1314/2014_04_17rgb06.jpg
Blue: http://www.damianpeach.com/mars1314/2014_04_17blue.jpg
Best Wishes
Damian PEACH (Selsey, WS, the
¤·····Subject: mars
13th May UT
Received: 26 May 2014 at 21:38 JST
Here is an image of Mars taken on the 13th May UT in average seeing.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140513/MVl13May14.jpg
Best wishes
Maurice VALIMBERTI (
¤·····Subject: mars
10th May UT
Received: 26 May 2014 at 20:50 JST
Here
are some Mars images from the 10th May UT taken in fair to good seeing.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140510/MVl10May14.jpg
Best wishes
Maurice VALIMBERTI (
¤·····Subject: mars
20140525
Received: 26 May 2014 at 18:50 JST
Mars yesterday.
Seeing 4 and clouds
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140525/JSv25May14.jpg
I have reprocesed the
20140514 mars and add the date text to image.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140514/JSv14May14.jpg
Josep SOLDEVILLA (
¤·····Subject: Mars
2014/05/23-Kumamori
Received: 26 May 2014 at 11:42 JST
Dear Mr. MINAMI,
Mars images on
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140523/Km23May14.jpg
Best
regards,
Teruaki KUMAMORI (
¤·····Subject: Mars
2014/05/08
Received: 26 May 2014 at 05:26 JST
Hello, here is an image under very poor seeing
conditions.
Clouds in Tharsis and Boreum mare.Southern hazes.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140508/MKd08May14.jpg
Manos KARDASIS (
¤·····Subject: Mars
image - May 25
Received: 26 May 2014 at 01:19 JST
Gentlemen,
This set of images is
from May 25.
Seeing was about
average, but the transparency was poor.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140525/PGc25May14.jpg
Regards,
Peter GORCZYNSKI (
¤·····Subject: Mars
images Ak25May14
Received: 25 May 2014 at 22:40 JST
Dear MINAMI,
Mars images on
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140525/Ak25May14.jpg
Best regards,
Tomio AKUTSU (
¤·····Subject: Mars
images
Received: 25 May 2014 at 21:55 JST
Hi all,
Here is a 5-series RGB set from the 15th (still have the 17th to send as well).
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140515/CPl15May14.jpg
A front is maybe moving again, but data
is of less good quality and the longitude shift smaller as well (2-3°only
over the same range of time)
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/M2014_05_15-CPE
Best wishes,
Christophe PELLIER (
Planetary astronomy and imaging
¤·····Subject: Mars
2014/05/24
Received: 25 May 2014 at 06:23 JST
Mars 2014/05/24
Hello,
Here is a new set of Mars images, with à GIF to
see the clouds evolution during 2 hours..
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140524/XDp24May14.jpg
Best regards,
Xavier DUPONT (
¤·····Subject: Some
Mars
Received: 25 May 2014 at 06:23 JST
starting, but the seeing was bad.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140417/JSv17Apr14.jpg
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140504/JSv04May14.jpg
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140515/JSv15May14.jpg
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140521/JSv21May14.jpg
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140523/JSv23May14.jpg
Josep SOLDEVILLA (
¤·····Subject: Mars
images (
Received: 25 May 2014 at 02:45 JST
Hi all,
Unfortunately skies were mostly cloudy and only one set
of images were possible this night. Seeing was good.
Tharsis is well placed shrouded in clouds.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140416/DPc16Apr14.jpg
http://www.damianpeach.com/mars1314/2014_04_16rgb.jpg
Best Wishes
Damian PEACH (Selsey, WS, the
¤·····Subject: Mars
2014/05/23
Received: 24 May 2014 at 23:55 JST
Hello,
An observation of Planet Mars with average and some good conditions.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140523/MKd23May14.jpg
Clouds in Eden.Long clouds from Borealis to
Deuteronilus Lacus.
Some clouds in Cecropia.Frost on
http://www.astrovox.gr/forum/album_pic.php?pic_id=17776
Manos KARDASIS (
¤·····Subject: Mars,
M140523 ishibashi
Received: 24 May 2014 at 12:02 JST
Mars imsges on
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140523/Is23May14.jpg
Tsutomu ISHIBASHI (
¤·····Subject: Mars,
May 21st and 23rd 2014
Received: 24 May 2014 at 00:53 JST
Here are images taken
from
http://www.egrafton.com/mars-2014-21-may_02-27ut.jpg
http://www.egrafton.com/mars-2014-23-may_03-07ut.jpg
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140521/EGf21May14.jpg
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140523/EGf23May14.jpg
Ed GRAFTON (Houston, TX)
¤·····Subject: Mars
14th May, 15th May and
Received: 23 May 2014 at 08:24 JST
Hi,
Here is selection of Mars images taken in the days around my last
offering from the 16th May, but unfortunately in not such favourable
conditions.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140514/MLw14May14.jpg
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140515/MLw15May14.jpg
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140518/MLw18May14.jpg
These
images and others can also be seen on my Mars webpage;
http://www.skyinspector.co.uk/Mars-and-Venus(2370659).htm
Cheers,
Martin LEWIS (
¤·····Subject: Mars
images
Received: 22 May 2014 at 21:33 JST
Dear Sirs,
Please find the attached Mars image set taken in good seeing.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140511/MJs11May14.jpg
Best regards,
Mark JUSTICE (
¤·····Subject: Mars
2014/05/21-Kumamori
Received: 22 May 2014 at 20:24 JST
Dear Mr. MINAMI,
Mars images on
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140521/Km21May14.jpg
Best
regards,
Teruaki KUMAMORI (
¤·····Subject:
Mo18May_14
Received: 22 May 2014 at 00:22 JST
Mars images on
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140518/Mo18May14.jpg
Yukio MORITA (
¤·····Subject: Mars
images - May 19
Received: 21 May 2014 at 22:35 JST
Gentlemen,
Here are several sets
from May 19. Seeing was no better than average.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140519/PGc19May14.jpg
Regards,
Peter GORCZYNSKI (
¤·····Subject: Mars:
Received: 21 May 2014 at 11:32 JST
Hi -
I have
attached my latest image of Mars May 19, 2014 to be posted.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140519/FMl19May14.jpg
Thanks,
Frank J MELILLO (
¤·····Subject: Mars
Received: 21 May 2014 at 05:13 JST
Hi,
A night of reasonable seeing here in the
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140516/MLw16May14.jpg
More Mars images to
come from the nights around this night.
You can also see this
image at;
http://www.skyinspector.co.uk/USERIMAGES/Mars_2014-05-16_21-16UT_MLewis.jpg
Cheers,
Martin LEWIS (
¤·····Subject: Mars
and Saturn images
Received: 20 May 2014 at 20:29 JST
Hi Guys
Yet another evening
of reasonable seeing.
No spots were seen on
the Saturn data.
Mars was very cloudy
on the morning side, and the polar cap seems to have less "ice".
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140518/DTy18May14.jpg
Best wishes
Dave TYLER (Bucks, the
www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE
¤·····Subject: Mars
2014/05/04
Received: 20 May 2014 at 19:54 JST
Hello,
An observation of Planet Mars with average conditions.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140504/MKd04May14.jpg
NPC with Lemuria and
Ierne remanents.From Ierne south to Tempe
Terra we see some clouds.Some Clouds around Olympus top.
Some clouds on Tharsi
and volcanos . Faint ECB. Some Southern haze is also visible.
http://kardasis.weebly.com/mars-2013-14.html
Manos KARDASIS (
¤·····Subject:
Drawings of Mars
Received: 20 May 2014 at 16:13 JST
Dear Dr. Minami,
I have attached here my piled-up drawings of Mars, very sorry to
be late in submitting my observations.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140422/Kn22Apr14.jpg
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140423/Kn23Apr14.jpg
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140424/Kn24Apr14.jpg
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140426/Kn26Apr14.jpg
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140427/Kn27Apr14.jpg
Our new
clinic/house/my observatory is now being built.
I hope I'll be able
to back to the normal observation mode by the end of this month.
Clear Skies with Excellent Seeing!
Reiichi KONNAï (Fukushima, JAPAN)
¤·····Subject: Mars
2014/05/19-Kumamori
Received: 20 May 2014 at 11:49 JST
Dear Mr. MINAMI,
Mars images on 19 May
2014.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140519/Km19May14.jpg
Best
regards,
Teruaki KUMAMORI (Osaka,
JAPAN)
¤·····Subject: Mars
- May 19th, 01:42ut
Received: 20 May 2014 at 11:21 JST
Hi Mr. Minami and
All!,
Here I submit my
latest observation on may 19th under above average conditions. 75 sec. per channel.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140519/EMr19May14.jpg
Efrain
MORALES (Aguadilla,
PUERTO RICO)
¤·····Subject: Moving
cloud front on Mars 05/14
Received: 20 May 2014 at 05:47 JST
Hi all,
These past evenings I have been observing Mars with a regular spacing of
imaging and during as many hours as possible, as this is the best way to image
the red planet.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140514/CPl14May14.jpg
For the night of May 14th, I'm seeing 2 to 3 successive cloud fronts near the
polar cap with a cloud-free post-frontal area (see blue light). The central one
over Mare Acidalium has moved eastward during the two hours and half. See
animation :
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/M2014_05_14-CPE_RVBanim
Quick
WinJupos measurements say that the front has shifted around 10° during the
session, this would represent
Here is the full set (6 RGB series):
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/M2014_05_14-CPE
Note also dissipating
Tharsis morning hazes around the summits of the volcanoes.
Best wishes,
Christophe PELLIER (Nantes, FRANCE)
Planetary astronomy and imaging
¤·····Subject: Mars
images
Received: 19 May 2014 at 22:00 JST
Dear Sirs,
Please find the
attached Mars image set taken in fair to occasionally good seeing.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140512/MJs12May14.jpg
Best regards,
Mark JUSTICE (
¤·····Subject: Mars
2014/05/18-Kumamori
Received: 19 May 2014 at 11:22 JST
Dear Mr. MINAMI,
Mars images on 18 May
2014.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140518/Km18May14.jpg
Best
regards,
Teruaki KUMAMORI (Osaka,
JAPAN)
¤·····Subject: Mars
images (April 15th, 2014.)
Received: 19 May 2014 at 06:22 JST
Hi all,
Here are some Mars
images from April 15th. Allot of clouds during the session and only a few
opportunities to obtain images. Seeing was briefly very good for the RGB image
but worsened with more clouds approaching. The Tharsis volcanoes are again well
seen shrouded in clouds. The B image obtained sometime later again shows
extensive cloudiness across the disk and structure within the ECB.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140415/DPc15Apr14.jpg
http://www.damianpeach.com/mars1314/2014_04_15rgb03.jpg
Best Wishes
Damian PEACH (Selsey, WS, the UK)
¤·····Subject: Mo06－16May_14
Received: 19 May 2014 at 00:44 JST
Mars images on 6, 7,
8, 13, 16 May 2014.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140506/Mo06May14.jpg
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140507/Mo07May14.jpg
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140508/Mo08May14.jpg
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140513/Mo13May14.jpg
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140516/Mo16May14.jpg
Yukio MORITA (Hiroshima, JAPAN)
¤·····Subject: Mars
14-15th-May-2014
Received: 18 May 2014 at 21:44 JST
Hi Guys here are a
few Mars images from the reasonable seeing here this past week.
They tend to be a bit
samey over a week as Mars only appears to have rotated about 9 degrees for the
same time each day. The Tharsis volcanoes can be seen rising in these images .
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140514/DTy14May14.jpg
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140515/DTy15May14.jpg
Best wishes
Dave TYLER (Bucks, the
www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE
¤·····Subject: Mars
2014/05/17
Received: 18 May 2014 at 15:16 JST
Mars 2014/05/17
Hello,
Here is a new set of Mars
images, but the seeing was very poor !!
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140517/XDp17May14.jpg
Newton 180 F7,
Powermate x5, ADC, I-Nova PLAC+
Best regards,
Xavier DUPONT ( Saint Roch,
FRANCE)
¤·····Subject: Mars
Images
Received: 18 May 2014 at 07:41 JST
Hi Mr. Minami,
Here I submit the
corected data from the 4th, 5th (mixed) and my most recent ones under below
average conditions.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140504/EMr04May14.jpg
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140505/EMr05May14.jpg
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140515/EMr15May14.jpg
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140516/EMr16May14.jpg
Clear Skie to All!
Efrain
MORALES (Aguadilla,
PUERTO RICO)
¤·····Subject: Mars
2014/05/16&17-Kumamori
Received: 18 May 2014 at 12:48 JST
Dear Mr. MINAMI,
Mars images on 16 and
17 May 2014.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140516/Km16May14.jpg
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140517/Km17May14.jpg
Best
regards,
Teruaki KUMAMORI (Osaka,
JAPAN)
¤·····Subject: Mars,
May 12th
Received: 18 May 2014 at 10:00 JST
Hi everyone,
This set was captured
in poor to mediocre seeing.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140512/SBd12May14.jpg
Best regards,
Stefan BUDA (Melbourne,
AUSTRALIA)
¤·····Subject: Re:
Mars images (April 14th, 2014.)
Received: 18 May 2014 at 03:44 JST
Many thanks Damian.
Your images from the second one onwards show the veiling of Niliacus Lacus by
the equatorial cloud band on the evening side: this is very unusual to be
visible in an RGB image.
Splendid work. I also
had some fine visual views around that time and caught Juventae Fons.
Best wishes
Richard McKIM (Peterborough, the
UK)
¤·····Subject: Saturn
Received: 17 May 2014 at 17:45 JST
Hi Guys
15-5-2014, I had just finished a good seeing imaging session on Mars and
turned the scope onto Saturn ALT 20 degrees, which I'd just assumed would be a
write off from the UK for the next 10 years, which will take me to 82 !
Imagine my shock at
seeing Cassini all the way round, the view was stunning. I changed mag and
immediately began capturing . It was pretty dim, I had to drop the FPS to 16
from the 55 FPS I used for Mars . I have attached a screenshot of the live
view.
I tried two methods
of processing, Firstly I put the unsharpened results of 10 avis into
R6 , realising that the 45min imaging run would smear any spots. I
then ran sharpened tiff results through WJ derotate. Results were very
similar, WJ handled the 45mins well and had the edge, but on high
enlargement a few little micro dots are visible on the globe edges. As it
was there was no storm spots visible on either result. The seeing
was the sharp but wriggling type of turbulence.
Although captured
5 days after opposition I still fancied that the rings appeared a little
brighter than normal. Perhaps it was the greater tilt than of late.
What a treat to see
Saturn like that at 22degrees alt.
Best wishes
Dave TYLER (Bucks, the
www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE
¤·····Subject: Mars
2014/5/14
Received: 17 May 2014 at 17:04 JST
Mars 2014/5/16
Hello,
Here is a new
set of Mars images...
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140516/XDp16May14.jpg
Newton 180 F7,
Powermate x5, ADC, I-Nova PLAC+
Best regards,
Xavier DUPONT ( Saint Roch,
FRANCE)
¤·····Subject: Saturn
2014 May 15・6
Received: 17 May 2014 at 08:14 JST
Seeing was good for
the altitude last night, a fairly slowly undulating but sharp image on screen.
The RGB videos were 3
minutes each. Each has been referenced to one time and derotation applied to
make the RGB in WinJUPOS.
The Violet+IR image,
also 3 minutes, taken a bit later, has also been used as a luminance layer,
without compensating for rotation, in the lower presentation.
The Encke division is
visible on the left ansa but not right.
David ARDITTI ( Edgware, Middlesex,
the UK)
¤·····Subject: Mars
images (April 14th, 2014.)
Received: 17 May 2014 at 04:20 JST
Hi all,
Here is the full set of images taken near Mars close approach to Earth (closest
was April 14th, 1254UTC.) Seeing was close to perfect at times during the
session allowing perhaps my most detailed images of the red planet to date.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140414/DPc14Apr14.jpg
Note the changes in the martian clouds over the course of the images.
RGB: http://www.damianpeach.com/mars1314/2014_04_14_rgbs.jpg
Blue: http://www.damianpeach.com/mars1314/2014_04_14_blue.jpg
Best
Wishes
Damian PEACH (Selsey, WS, the UK)
¤·····Subject: Mars
2014/5/14
Received: 17 May 2014 at 03:13 JST
Mars 2014/5/14
Hello,
Here is a new
set of Mars images...
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140514/XDp14May14.jpg
Newton 180 F7, Powermate
x5, ADC, I-Nova PLAC+
Best regards,
Xavier DUPONT ( Saint Roch,
FRANCE)
¤·····Subject: Mars,
May 11th
Received: 16 May 2014 at 20:08 JST
Hi everyone,
This set was captured
in average seeing.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140511/SBd11May14.jpg
Best regards,
Stefan BUDA (Melbourne,
AUSTRALIA)
¤·····Subject: Mars
images Ak11May14
Received: 15 May 2014 at 22:57 JST
Dear MINAMI,
Mars images on
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140511/Ak11May14.jpg
Best regards,
Tomio AKUTSU (
¤·····Subject: Mars
images
Received: 15 May 2014 at 19:34 JST
Dear Sirs,
Please find the attached Mars image set taken in fair seeing.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140513/MJs13May14.jpg
Best regards,
Mark JUSTICE (
¤·····Subject: mars
12 may
Received: 15 May 2014 at 07:33 JST
Hi
Weather here not good always Thunderstorm Jet- Stream
strong this is my stories PLS see you it .
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140512/SGh12May14.jpg
Regards
Sadegh GHOMIZADEH (Roudehen, IRAN)
¤·····Subject: Mars
observation May 13th
Received: 14 May 2014 at 17:34 JST
Dear Mr. Minami,
Please find attached a set of LRGB images of Mars taken last night (May 13th).
The conditions were
quite steady so I tried to integrate a little longer, 7 minutes in each filter
time time as an experiment.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140513/DWr13May14.jpg
Syrtis Major was close to the meridian, and Hellas was still very bright.
There was also some
cloud over Elysium and delicate cloud detail on the limb over Arabia/Moab.
The planet is now
becoming noticeably gibbous.
Thank you and all the best,
David WELDRAKE (NSW, AUSTRALIA)
¤·····Subject: Mars
image - May 14
Received: 14 May 2014 at 16:36 JST
Gentlemen,
Here is a set of Mars
images captured in good seeing.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140514/PGc14May14.jpg
Regards,
Peter GORCZYNSKI (Oxford, CT)
¤·····Subject: Mars
2014/05/13-Kumamori
Received: 14 May 2014 at 06:45 JST
Dear Mr. MINAMI,
Mars images on 13 May
2014.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140513/Km13May14.jpg
Best
regards,
Teruaki KUMAMORI (Osaka,
JAPAN)
¤·····Subject: mars.11.may
Received: 14 May 2014 at 04:26 JST
Hi all
Bad seeing &
unstable atmosphere I took one Martin .PLS see you it.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140511/SGh11May14.jpg
Regards
Sadegh GHOMIZADEH (Roudehen, IRAN)
¤·····Subject: Mars,
May 10th
Received: 13 May 2014 at 19:21 JST
Hi everyone,
The attached images
were captured in amazingly humid conditions.
Everything was
dripping wet from condensation.
It was very hard to
keep the mirrors dry and in the end I had to give up.
The last set was
captured with a partially fogged up secondary.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140510/SBd10May14.jpg
Best regards,
Stefan BUDA (Melbourne,
AUSTRALIA)
¤·····Subject: Mars
image - May 12
Received: 13 May 2014 at 19:03 JST
Gentlemen,
Seeing was no better
than average for this set of images.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140512/PGc12May14.jpg
Regards,
Peter GORCZYNSKI (Oxford, CT)
¤·····Subject: MARS
Observations - April 24, 2014 Turbulent seeing conditions.
Received: 13 May 2014 at 11:37 JST
Again turbulent
seeing for these sets.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140424/FWl24Apr14.jpg
Freddy WILLEMS (Saint Johns, FL)
¤·····Subject: MARS
Observations - April 23, 2014 Turbulent
seeing conditions.
Received: 13 May 2014 at 11:35 JST
Some turbulent seeing
for these.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140423/FWl23Apr14.jpg
Freddy WILLEMS (Saint Johns, FL)
¤·····Subject: Mars
Received: 13 May 2014 at 10:21 JST
Dear Sir,
Attached find my Mars
image of 3 May 2014.
The seeing was
average, but there were a lot of orographic clouds.
The double nuclei above
M.Olympus are striking as well as the cyclone near the polar cap
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140503/JSb03May14.jpg
Regards,
John SUSSENBACH （Houten,
The NETHERLANDS）
¤·····Subject: Re:
Martian volcanoes: what Mellish saw
Received: 13 May 2014 at 06:55 JST
Dear Leo,
These images are truly remarkable....
A number of years ago, I looked into the circumstances of Mellish’s
famous (infamous?) observation with the Yerkes refractor. He was looking
at the planet very nearly under the circumstances shown in the second of your
images (5 Mei), and I think at last we can say, to a reasonable degree of
certainty, what he was seeing. As he told Walter Leight in 1935, he
realized there was “something wonderful about Mars, it is not flat but has many
craters and cracks. I saw a lot of the craters and mountains one morning
with the
I think in any case we can say that he did see that Mars was
not the flat canal-covered surface that most people of the time believed in.
Best, Bill
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On
7:17 AM, "Aerts Leo" <aerts.leo@skynet.be>
wrote:
Dear Bill,
Herewith a compilation of recent observations of Martian volcanos. All
information on the picture.
As already mentioned I am next week on Cyprus, with Mars high in the sky … but
without any telescope.
Will afterwards go on following Mars as long as possible.
Best regards
Leo
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Bill SHEEHAN (Willmar, MN)
¤·····Subject: BCC
Mars images 2014 May 10 and May 11
Received: 13 May 2014 at 09:34 JST
Hello,
here are two sets of
RGB images I have collected on the evening of May 10th and May 11th.
Seeing started as
very good on the evening of 10th, but with extremely high amount of dew. After
fighting the dewing on everything from corrector plate to the laptop screen I
had to give up when the primary in my SCT dewed up! I have never seen that
before, and even more so frustrating as this promised to be the best seeing of
this apparition.
Seeing on the
following night (11th) was little bit worse but still relatively good for local
conditions so I processed all collected data into a large composite.
I hope images will be
of some use.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140510/BCr10May14.jpg
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140511/BCr11May14.jpg
Best regards,
Bratislav CURCIC (Melbourne,
AUSTRALIA)
¤·····Subject: Mars
Observation (May 5, 2014)
Received: 13 May 2014 at 05:05 JST
Dear Mr. Murakami,
I made an observation
of Mars on May 5, 2014 (03:30 U.T. or 11:30 PM EDT) using my 9-inch (23-cm)
F/13.5 Maksutov-Cassegrain (190x and 258x).
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140505/CHr05May14.jpg
The North Polar Cap (NPC)
was small and irregular surrounded by a very dark to dark (2-3/10) collar. A
very bright (8/1) and elongated streak was visible South and preceding the
central meridian (CM) which may represent an ice remnant, water-ice cloud, or
possibly a localized dust storm. Panchaia, Utopia, and Umbra appeared dark to
dusky (3-4/10) South of the NPC. Casius was a spear-like dark (3/10) albedo feature
following the CM. Elysium appeared as a bright (7/10) circular feature with a
localized bright to very bright (7-8/10) feature over it's following half
(cloud?) towards the preceding limb. Chaos, Morpheos Lacus, and Hyblaeus
appeared dark to dusky (3-4/10) over the North-following corner of Elysium.
Mare Cimmerium and Mare Tyrrhenum appeared dark to dusky (3-4/10) towards the
South separated by a bright (7/10) Hesperia. Dusky to dull streaks were noted
over the northern border of Mare Cimmerium over Zephyria and Aeolis. I noted
the Syrtis Blue Cloud over Syrtis Major (3-5/10) towards the following limb.
The "Syrtis Blue Cloud" is a discrete topographic (localized) cloud
composed of water-ice aerosols and carbon dioxide crystals that forms over the
Libya basin and Syrtis Major Planum (8.4ｰN, 69.5ｰE; originally thought to be a
plain but found to be a Hesperian age (3.7-3.0 Billion years) low-angle
basaltic plains volcano by the Mars Global Surveyor) during late spring and
early summer of the northern hemisphere. This cloud gives Syrtis Major a
"bluish" appearance that was first noted in 1858 by the Italian
astronomer Pietro Angelo Sechhi (1818-1878; Director of the Roman College
Observatory in Rome) who named it the "Blue Scorpion." This cloud is
best seen when Syrtis Major is near the limb. Isidis Regio and Libya contained
very bright (8/10) clouds over them.
The best of luck to
you, your fellow Recorders, Dr. Minami, and all CMO Mars observers.
Regards,
Carlos E. HERNANDEZ (Miami, FL)
¤·····Subject: Mars
Received: 12 May 2014 at 22:04 JST
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140512/JKz12May14.jpg
John KAZANAS (Melbourne,
AUSTRALIA)
¤·····Subject: Mars
Received: 12 May 2014 at 18:53 JST
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140511/JKz11May14.jpg
John KAZANAS (Melbourne, AUSTRALIA)
¤·····Subject: Mars
2014/05/11-Kumamori
Received: 12 May 2014 at 10:51 JST
Dear Mr. MINAMI,
Mars images on 11 May
2014.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140511/Km11May14.jpg
Best
regards,
Teruaki KUMAMORI (Osaka,
JAPAN)
¤·····Subject: Mars
images M140511 ishibashi
Received: 12 May 2014 at 10:27 JST
Mars imsges on 11 May
2014.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140511/Is11May14.jpg
Tsutomu ISHIBASHI (Kanagawa, JAPAN)
¤·····Subject: Mars
images Ak07May14
Received: 11 May 2014 at 19:13 JST
Dear MINAMI,
Mars images on
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140507/Ak07May14.jpg
Best regards,
Tomio AKUTSU (
¤·····Subject: Mars
images on last night
Received: 11 May 2014 at 15:20 JST
Dear Dr MINAMI,
Mars images on 10 May
2014.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140510/Ns10May14.jpg
Best
regards,
Akinori NISHITA (Fukui,
JAPAN)
¤·····Subject: Mars
2014/05/10-Kumamori
Received: 11 May 2014 at 17:19 JST
Dear Mr. MINAMI,
Mars images on 10 May
2014.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140510/Km10May14.jpg
Best
regards,
Teruaki KUMAMORI (Osaka,
JAPAN)
¤·····Subject: Mars
closest to Earth - April 14th.
Received: 11 May 2014 at 00:11 JST
Hi all,
Here is a colour and
B filter image of Mars from the night it was closest to Earth taken under
excellent conditions during a recent stay on Barbados.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140414/DPc14Apr14.jpg
This is probably the
sharpest image of Mars ive ever taken. Extensive delicate cloud features are
visible across the planet. The volcano summits are all clear of clouds
especially Arsia Mons. Olympus Mons appears as a ring like feature. Also note
the lack of clouds in the northern polar latitudes especially over Mare
Acidalium.
http://www.damianpeach.com/mars1314/2014_04_14_rgb08.jpg
Many more images to
come covering almost the entire planet. Many weeks of work ahead.
Best Wishes
Damian PEACH (Selsey, WS, the UK)
¤·····Subject: Mars
image - May 6
Received: 10 May 2014 at 13:37 JST
Gentlemen,
Seeing was remarkably
good, but transparency was not. These images were captured through a
variable density cloud layer. I had to constantly adjust camera gain so as
not to saturate the images. Because of the good seeing a lot of detail
can be seen in the blue channel. Fine wispy clouds were captured.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140506/PGc06May14.jpg
Regards,
Peter GORCZYNSKI (Oxford, CT)
¤·····Subject: mars.8.may
Received: 10 May 2014 at 08:52 JST
Hi all
Average condition
& cloudy I took some images from Mars .PLS see you them.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140508/SGh08May14.jpg
Regards
Sadegh GHOMIZADEH (Roudehen, IRAN)
¤·····Subject: BCC
Mars images 2014 May 07 and May 08
Received: 9 May 2014 at 16:05 JST
Hello,
here are
two sets of RGB images I have collected on the evening of May
7th and May 8th.
Seeing was
extremely poor, especially on the second night as jetstream was
particularly strong over Melbourne.
I persisted because
despite the atrocious conditions some detail in polar cloud is still evident in
the blue channel.
I hope images will be
of some use.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140507/BCr07May14.jpg
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140508/BCr08May14.jpg
Best regards,
Bratislav CURCIC (Melbourne, AUSTRALIA)
¤·····Subject: Mars
images Ak06Maｙ14
Received: 9 May 2014 at 12:45 JST
Dear MINAMI,
Mars images on
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140506/Ak06May14.jpg
Best regards,
Tomio AKUTSU (
¤·····Subject: Jupiter
Observations - April 27, 2014 Average seeing.
Received: 9 May 2014 at 10:32 JST
Some better seeing,
Scope will go in repair soon, some collimation done also.
But still turbulent
and warm..
Freddy WILLEMS (Saint Johns, FL)
¤·····Subject: Mars
observation
Received: 8 May 2014 at 19:37 JST
Dear Mr. Minami,
Please find attached an observation I made of Mars last night, the 7th May from
my back garden here in Bungendore. The seeing was not so good, hence I could
only use a small fraction of the image stack to produce the attached LRGB
image. Syrtis Major was on the preceding limb, and what I believe to be the
polar storm was clearly seen on the following limb at the northern edge of
Acidalium especially in the blue filter. It was also clearly seen by eye, which
made for a very impressive view. Hellas was also very bright, and there were
some clouds over Chryse.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140507/DWr07May14.jpg
Thank you and all the best,
David WELDRAKE (NSW, AUSTRALIA)
¤·····Subject: CC:
Mars Observations
Received: 8 May 2014 at 09:30 JST
Hi Don,
I had a good night
last night; good views of Jupiter, the Moon and Mars. My Mars observing
report from last night is attached. I have also attached separate tonal
drawings from my observations of last night and April 24th (as I
routinely did during the last Mars apparition). I regret not trying to
image last night because the seeing turned out far better than what I
experienced on April 24th. By the way, I realize you’re probably
inundated with incoming Mars photos, but have you had a chance to look at the
two images I sent you last month? I’d appreciate any comments or
suggestions you might have.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140506/JAl06May14.jpg
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140424/JAl24Apr14.jpg
Thanks & regards,
Jay ALBERT (Lake Worth, FL)
¤·····Subject: Mars
2014/05/07-Kumamori
Received: 8 May 2014 at 18:21 JST
Dear Mr. MINAMI,
Mars images on 07 May
2014.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140507/Km07May14.jpg
Teruaki KUMAMORI (Osaka,
JAPAN)
¤·····Subject: Mars:
Received: 8 May 2014 at 12:46 JST
Hi -
I have attached my
latest image of Mars May 6, 2014 to be posted.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140506/FMl06May14.jpg
Thanks,
Frank J MELILLO (Holtsville, NY)
¤·····Subject: Mars
M140507 ishibashi
Received: 8 May 2014 at 10:56 JST
Mars imsges on 7 May
2014.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140507/Is07May14.jpg
Tsutomu ISHIBASHI (Kanagawa, JAPAN)
¤·····Subject: Mars
images - 3rd may 2014
Received: 7 May 2014 at 23:58 JST
Hi all,
Here are 5 RGB+IR series taken on May 3rd taken every 40 mn. Seeing was
correct.
They show the growth of Tharsis afternoon clouds over the volcanoes and the
dissipation of Elysium morning hazes.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140503/CPl03May14.jpg
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/M2014_05_03-CPE
Here
is an animation:
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/M2014_05_03-CPE_RVBanim
Good
observations,
Christophe PELLIER (Nantes, FRANCE)
Planetary astronomy and imaging
¤·····Subject: Mars
2014/05/02
Received: 7 May 2014 at 21:22 JST
Hello,
An observation of Planet Mars with average conditions. NPC with Lemuria and Ierne
remanents.From Ierne south to Tempe Terra we see some clouds possibly part of
the North Polar Vortex. Clouds over Olympus, Tharsis volcanos and Elysium.Light
patches of thin clouds in many other places.Some Southern haze is also visible.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140502/MKd30Apr14.jpg
full
res:
http://www.astrovox.gr/forum/album_pic.php?pic_id=17718
Manos KARDASIS (
¤·····Subject: Mars
2014/05/06-Kumamori
Received: 7 May 2014 at 20:14 JST
Dear Mr. MINAMI,
Mars images on 06 May
2014.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140506/Km06May14.jpg
Teruaki KUMAMORI (Osaka,
JAPAN)
¤·····Subject: Solar
Images 4th-May-2014
Received: 7 May 2014 at 07:33 JST
Hi
Guys, a nice fat prom hung around for couple of days, giving me a chance to
capture it. Equally nice was a spider web like beauty. Look at that disturbance
associated with AR 2047 and 2051.
Best
wishes
Dave TYLER (Bucks, the
www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE
¤·····Subject: Mars
2014-05-03 21h35 UT
Received: 7 May 2014 at 06:05 JST
Mars
2014-05-03 21h35 UT.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140503/RBs03May14.jpg
Olympus
Mons with orographic clouds. On the edge Tharsis volcanoes there too orographic
clouds.
Left on the edge morning clouds (light blue) I have more observing from that night,
which probably come very shortly.
Mars Height: 34 degrees
Diameter: 14.3 "
Central meridian: 176.08
Telescope C14 and Basler Ace CCD
Mars
in blue light
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140503/RBs03May14_B.jpg
Date
03-05-2014
19h58 to 21h44 UT Recording Time (12 images)
Almost two-hour rotation. It is not about the resolution but the clouds in blue
light.
Clearly shows that the cloud has changed over a period of less than 2 hours.
Left the morning clouds. Around Mount Olympus is seen that approaching the
night the cloud increases.
Ditto for Tharsis region. Around the NPC (right on the edge) see that the
evening clouds also increases.
Just wanted to share this beautiful clouds spectacle with you.
Online
link if the gif does not works:
http://www.astrofotografie.nl/mars_b_animation.html
Regards
Richard BOSMAN (Enschede,
NETHERLANDS)
¤·····Subject: RE:
Mars observations Apr 17th and May 1st
Received: 6 May 2014 at 19:28 JST
Dear
Mr. Minami,
Thank you very much for your kind email and the request for me to send more
data through to you. I am also very glad to hear that another observer also saw
the polar votex on the same night. Very interesting that it also appeared in
1999. Let us hope that it continues to be visible for some time to come!
You asked if I had more data taken in April. I have one more image, taken on
April 2nd, which was the first time I ever used my new camera system. Please
find the image attached as a jpg file as before.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140402/DWr02Apr14.jpg
This time the Syrtis Major was on the meridian, and the fog in Hellas was very
extensive.
Please note that I can also send you the .tif files, one for each filter, as
well as the attached image. These are the original images as output by
registax. If you think that data would be useful please let me know and I will
email them over to you for the three Mars images I have now submitted.
Thank you again and I will be in touch.
Cheers,
David WELDRAKE (NSW, AUSTRALIA)
¤·····Subject: Mars
Received: 6 May 2014 at 08:23 JST
Hi,
Some reasonable details of the less interesting face of Mars in this view from
last night.
Cloud over Elysium
and orographic clouds over Olympus Mons and the three Tharsis volcanoes near
the left-hand limb.
See this image at
http://www.skyinspector.co.uk/USERIMAGES/Mars_2014-05-04_21-42UT_MLewis.jpg
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140504/MLw04May14.jpg
Cheers,
Martin LEWIS (St. Albans, the UK)
¤·····Subject: Re:
possible cyclone? Fw: Mo01May_14
Received: 6 May 2014 at 02:05 JST
Dear Masatsugu and
Reiichi,
Yes, cyclones have been caught by several observers recently and we should have
also enough data to study both their seasonal and daily evolution (the last one
is not within reach of spatial probes!)
Best wishes
Christophe PELLIER (Nantes, FRANCE)
¤·····Subject: Mars
2nd and 5th of May-2014
Received: 5 May 2014 at 22:23 JST
Hi Guys seeing was a
bit better for me on the 2nd and even better on the 5th, encouraging a jump in
mag for the last image in the set. A 2x TV Barlow was stretched 80mm by the
double prism ADC, and the Fleas 3's nosepiece, thus increasing the C14'S f11 to
f35. Still plenty of fast but low amplitude "limb lashing," but the
dark stripe in the polar cap was constantly visible.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140502/DTy02May14.jpg
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140504/DTy04May14.jpg
Best wishes
Dave TYLER (Bucks, the
www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE
¤·····Subject: mars
3 may
Received: 5 May 2014 at 19:31 JST
Hi all
Poor seeing &
unstable atmosphere I took one images from mars PLS see you it .
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140503/SGh03May14.jpg
Regards
Sadegh GHOMIZADEH (Roudehen, IRAN)
¤·····Subject: Mars
observations Apr 17th and May 1st
Received: 5 May 2014 at 17:29 JST
Dear Mr Murakami and
Mr Minami,
I hope you are both well. I am a new imager of the planet Mars from my back
garden in Bungendore, NSW, Australia and I have taken some data on both the
17th April and May 1st and I wanted to submit them to the CMO/ISMO if that is
ok. I was not sure of where I could send my data and an internet search led me
to your group.
Please find attached two jpg images with the data. I use a Takahashi TOA-130NS
refractor with a ZWO ASI120MM camera with LRGB filters.
Of particular interest is the image of May 1st, which I believe shows a new
polar vortex over the Tempe region. There appears to be a lot of cloud over
Tharsis too. By seeing such climatic details on Mars I was interested to submit
the images to you. I hope to submit more images once the weather is a little
better.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140501/DWr01May14.jpg
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140417/DWr17Apr14.jpg
Cheers, and all the best.
David WELDRAKE (NSW, AUSTRALIA)
¤·····Subject: Mars M140504 ishibashi
Received: 5 May 2014 at 09:56 JST
Mars images on 2 May
2014.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140504/Is04May14.jpg
Tsutomu ISHIBASHI (Kanagawa, JAPAN)
¤·····Subject: Mars
2014-05-03 21h35 UT
Received: 5 May 2014 at 04:55 JST
Hello,
Mars last night 2014-05-03 21h35 UT.
Olympus Mons with orographic clouds.
On the edge Tharsis volcanoes there too orographic clouds.
Left on the edge morning clouds (light blue)
I have more observing from that night, which probably come very shortly.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140503/RBs03May14.jpg
Mars Height: 34
degrees
Diameter: 14.3 "
Central meridian: 176.08
Telescope C14 and Basler Ace CCD
Richard BOSMAN (Enschede,
NETHERLANDS)
¤·····Subject:
Mo02May_14
Received: 5 May 2014 at 03:09 JST
Mars images on 2 May
2014.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140502/Mo02May14.jpg
Yukio MORITA (Hiroshima, JAPAN)
¤·····Subject: Mars
2014/04/30
Received: 5 May 2014 at 01:36 JST
Hello, here is an image under poor seeing conditions.
Morning and evening haze.Clouds over Olympus, volcanos and Alba Patera.Thin clouds
in many places.Some southern hazes
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140430/MKd30Apr14.jpg
http://kardasis.weebly.com/mars-2013-14.html
Manos
KARDASIS (
¤·····Subject: Mars
2014/04/24
Received: 5 May 2014 at 01:24 JST
Hello, here is an
image under very poor seeing conditions.
Morning and evening haze.Clouds over Amazonis and Elysium.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140424/MKd24Apr14.jpg
http://kardasis.weebly.com/mars-2013-14.html
Manos
KARDASIS (
¤·····Subject: Mars
2014/04/14
Received: 5 May 2014 at 01:19 JST
Hello, here is an
image under poor seeing conditions.
Morning and evening haze.Frost on
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140414/MKd14Apr14.jpg
http://kardasis.weebly.com/mars-2013-14.html
Manos
KARDASIS (
¤·····Subject: Mars
Images Ak04May14
Received: 5 May 2014 at 01:15 JST
Dear MINAMI,
Mars images on
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140504/Ak04May14.jpg
Best regards,
Tomio AKUTSU (
¤·····Subject: Re:
Mars Images 2014/04/13
Received: 5 May 2014 at 00:49 JST
Dear Masatsugu,
You can have all confidence. I appreciate your interest in my images. I
understand the high level of work to the analysis and publication of
observations. Thank you very much for including them in the CMO#421.
I'm too interested in contributing to the report of observations and expect to
post several images during this apparition.
Best regards,
Charles TRIANA Ortiz (Bogotá, COLOMBIA)
AstroExplor Observatory
www.astroexplor.org
astromail@astroexplor.org
¤·····Subject: Bates
Mars 05042014
Received: 4 May 2014 at 13:41 JST
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140504/DBt04May14.jpg
Donald R. Bates (Houston, TX)
¤·····Subject: Mars:
Received: 4 May 2014
at 13:11 JST
Hi -
I have
attached my latest image of Mars May 3rd, 2014 at 3:20 UT to be posted.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140503/FMl03May14.jpg
Thanks,
Frank J MELILLO (Holtsville, NY)
¤·····Subject: Jupiter
Observations - April 26, 2014 Average seeing.
Received: 4 May 2014 at 09:37 JST
My Jupiter sets (2)
from April 26, 2014. Some better seeing.
Freddy WILLEMS (Saint Johns, FL)
¤·····Subject: hi
Received: 4 May 2014 at 09:27 JST
Dear Masatsugu,
I was very glad to see that you were able to observe Mars in March. Your Parkinson's
problems with the pencils "hit me close to home."
Maybe you will be interested in my experience with PD. Somewhere I read that,
with fifty patients, you would have fifty sets of presenting symptoms. Our
cases will therefore probably not be exactly alike. There may be enough
similarity to be of some interest to you.
The first symptom that I noticed was difficulty in writing. Back then we wrote
our nursing notes directly onto the patients' charts. I would put my pen on the
paper, and nothing would happen. I would try harder, and maybe the pen would
move a little. Try harder still, and the pen would scribble all over the page.
My family doctor, who has been very helpful to me for quite a few years,
referred me to a neurologist. The neurologist saw that my right arm did not
swing when I walked. The right side of my body was slow and almost rigid. The
PD has mainly affected my right side. Recently I have also had some difficulty
moving my left side. My facial expression was waxlike, sometimes called
the Parkinson's mask. At times I have had a lot of trouble walking. My balance
is not good, and, frankly speaking, I am afraid of falling. I have a hard time
getting up from a chair, and sometimes I need help. Tyler has been very good
about assisting me.The neurologist says that the PD symptoms will get worse,
and I am likely to become completely disabled.
I am very fortunate in that my employer has found work that I can do on a
part-time basis that is sort of a light duty work. Co-workers have usually be
helpful and accepting of my limitations.
My wife has been helpful in many ways, and I cannot praise her too much.
Parkinson's itself is not physically painful, but arthritis, which may be
connected with the medication, is sometimes very painful.
My PD has been treated with medication. I have been very fortunate in that the
meds have usually worked well, and my body has tolerated the medication so far.
I hope you are receiving good medical care, and that your symptoms can be
controlled. If you have any questions or comments in regard to our health
problem, please write to me. I am not a doctor, but I am your friend and
willing to try to help.
Best wishes,
Samuel WHITBY (Hopewell, VA)
¤·····Subject: Mars
- May 1st, 03:24ut
Received: 4 May 2014 at 06:32 JST
Hi Mr. Minami and
All!. Here I submit my most recent session from may 1st,
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140501/EMr01May14.jpg
Clear Skies!.
Efrain
MORALES (Aguadilla,
PUERTO RICO)
¤·····Subject: Mars
Images 2014/04/13
Received: 4 May 2014 at 08:59 JST
Dear,
I send you three
images.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140413/CTr13Apr14.jpg
Mars
2014/04/13 UT 04:
SC LX200UHTC 254mm @
f/28
ASI120MM + RGB @
4333/3791/1735 frames @ 48/42/19 fps
S: 5-6/10 – T: NA –
Alt: 67°-77°
Comments:
Again having good
observing conditions was possible to obtain good images of Mars, watching
amazing planet surface details during a two-hour rotation. Olympus Mons is
observed under clear skies but clouds around, which cover the Tharsis Montes
and are also abundant in the east and west limb. A concentration of clouds in
the equatorial zone it shows. Sinking into the sunset is the Valles Marineris
and the Alba region north. In the region of the NPC Lemuria distinctly
observed.
-----------------------------------------------
Best regards,
Charles TRIANA Ortiz (Bogotá, COLOMBIA)
AstroExplor Observatory
www.astroexplor.org
astromail@astroexplor.org
¤·····Subject: mars
Received: 4 May 2014 at 01:13 JST
Hello,
Here is a new set
of Mars images... Unfortunately with the artefact ghost arc again !!!
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140502/XDp02May14.jpg
Newton 180 F7,
Powermate x5, ADC, I-Nova PLAC+
Best regards,
Xavier DUPONT ( Saint Roch,
FRANCE)
¤·····Subject: Mars
images at HIDA Observatory
Received:
Dear Dr. MINAMI,
Mars images on 2 May 2014 at Hida Observatory
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140502/Ns02May14.jpg
Best regards,
Akinori NISHITA (
¤·····Subject: Mars
images
Received:
Dear Sirs,
Please find the attached Mars image set taken in varied seeing from poor to
good.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140427/MJs27Apr14.jpg
Best regards,
Mark JUSTICE (
¤·····Subject: Mars
2014/05/02-Kumamori
Received:
Dear Mr. MINAMI,
Mars images on 02 May
2014.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140502/Km02May14.jpg
Teruaki KUMAMORI (Osaka,
JAPAN)
¤·····Subject: Bates
Mars 05022014
Received:
See enclosed image:
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140502/DBt02May14.jpg
Notes: Syrtus Major clear at 450X.
Donald R. Bates (Houston, TX)
¤·····Subject: Jupiter
Observations - April 25, 2014 Turbulent seeing.
Received:
Still some turbulent
seeing for these sets of Jupiter..
Freddy WILLEMS (Saint Johns, FL)
¤·····Subject: Jupiter
Observations - April 24, 2014 Turbulent seeing.
Received: 3 May 2014
at 10:30 JST
Again turbulent seeing
conditions for this sets.
Freddy WILLEMS (Saint Johns, FL)
¤·····Subject: Mars
images Ak02May14
Received:
Dear MINAMI,
Mars images on
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140502/Ak02May14.jpg
Best regards,
Tomio AKUTSU (
¤·····Subject: Re:
Mars image
Received:
Dear Masatsugu,
Very happy to be able to help. Thank you to you and your colleagues for all the
hard work you put in maintaining the CMO image database.
You are correct, the images are from the 30 April GMT not from the 29th
as I stated. Apologises for my error, I will be more careful in future.
Please find the attached corrected image set.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140430/MJs30Apr14.jpg
Best regards,
Mark JUSTICE (
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
On 3/05/2014 6:54 AM, Masatsugu MINAMI wrote:
> Dear Mark (may I?)
> Thank you very much for your continuous submission to us of Mars images
which are all precious to us.
>
> By the way we received on 2 May at 22:19 a new set of images which is
dated 29 April. However the LCM described is not the one for 29 April but looks
to be for the images on 30 April GMT. The cyclonic-like cloud taken also is
shown the same form as on the images taken on 30 April by other observers.
>
> We of course should be interested in the situation if they happen to be
the ones really taken on 29 May GMT. In that case we need a different LCM value.
>
> At any rate we need your kind explanation. With best wishes
>
> Masatsugu MINAMI (CMO/ISMO)
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> Date: Fri, 02 May 2014 23:19:21 +1000
>> From: Mark Justice
>> Subject: Mars image
>>
>> Dear Sirs,
>>
>> Please find the attached Mars image set. The earlier image set was
taken
>> in fair seeing just before thick cloud rolled in and the later set
taken
>> in good seeing immediately after the cloud passed about 45 minute
later.
>> About ten minutes later the seeing became poor.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Mark Justice
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
¤·····Subject: RE:
Mars Images -
Received:
Dear Masatsugu,
Good to hear from you! I hope I have more to contribute before Mars
fades away until the next time around.
I also hope you were
able to observe the cyclonic cloud near M Acidalium last evening. It does
seem like things are
starting to get interesting.
Best wishes,
p.s. My wife Kris sends her regards. We really enjoyed the trip to
Paris and Meudon for IWCMO conference back in 2009!
Bill FLANAGAN (Houston, TX)
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Masatsugu MINAMI
>Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2014 8:51 PM
>Subject: Re: Mars Images - April 28, 2014
>
>Dear Bill,
>
>We are very much pleased to be able to hear from you.
>We look forward to your further superb work in this apparition.
>
>Unfortunately I myself cannot so much observe due to my Parkinson decease,
>while I will go to the Observatory this evening, because Yukio MORITA and
>others have found a cyclonic cloud following M Acidalium. The interesting
>season has begun! It's good to have you at this important season!
>With best wishes,
>Masatsugu
>
>PS: Please send my kindest regards to your wife whom we happily met in
Paris
>and Meudon in 2009.
>-----------------------------------
¤·····Subject: Re:
possible cyclone? Fw:
Mo01May_14
Received:
Dear. Dr. Minami,
Christophe,
This is an email from my mobile phone, I'm in the front seat next
to my wife Reiko's driving. We are on our way on the highway from Hiraizumi to
Hirosaki, chasing the cherry-blossom front going up north.
Yes, Dr. Morita caught really something, a big lady almost 1500km
across with an explicit eye over 500km in diameter! Australian Big Guns may
resolve into the spiral structure. I believe the next release of MRO MARCI
weakly weather report will show a somewhat dissipated but enduring afternoon
feature of this cyclonic spiral cloud.
Best Regards,
Reiichi
KONNAï (Fukushima, JAPAN)
>----- -----
>from: Masatsugu MINAMI
>to: Christophe Pellier
>Cc: Reiichi KONNAI
>Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 02:06:14 +0900 (JST)
>Sugb: possible cyclone? Fw: Mo01May_14
>
>Dear Christophe, I have just received this set of images from Yukio Morita.
>It is also possible (judged from KUMAMORI's image) that there occurred the
same phenomenon on the preceding day. With best wishes,
>Masatsugu
>PS:
CMO/ISMO #421 has been uploaded.
>----- -----
¤·····Subject: Mars
Images 28th/ 30th-Apr-2014
Received:
Hi Guys two night of
different seeing but both showing similar clouds. The bright one on the right
is over Olympus Mons.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140429/DTy29Apr14.jpg
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140430/DTy30Apr14.jpg
Best wishes
Dave TYLER (Bucks, the
www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE
¤·····Subject: Mars
Received:
Hi,
Here is the Elysium region again, this time in fluttery seeing, but showing
more detail than my previous image of 28th
Here is the link in case the attachment gets lost;
http://www.skyinspector.co.uk/USERIMAGES/Mars_2014-04-30_21-30UT_MLewis.jpg
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140430/MLw30Apr14.jpg
Cheers,
Martin LEWIS (St. Albans, the UK)
¤·····Subject: Mars
Images -
Received:
Dear Masatsugu and
Masami,
Attached is a set of images of Mars on 29 April. Very bright cloud over
Hellas!
Between cloudy nights
and work I am sorry I have not been very productive imaging this
apparition.
Hopefully I will have
more to send the next couple of months.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140429/WFl29Apr14.jpg
Best Regards,
Bill FLANAGAN (Houston, TX)
¤·····Subject: Blue
Orb in the Distance ... from Cassini
Received:
May 1, 2014
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Do you relish the notion of being a Saturnian, and gazing out from the lofty
heights of Saturn at the same planets we see here from the Earth?
Then check out the image the imaging team on Cassini just released
today. Far in the distance, beyond the rings of Saturn, lies
the hazy blue orb of Uranus, a planet that was last visited by a spacecraft of
our making 28 years ago.
http://www.ciclops.org/view/7880/Blue-Orb-On-The-Horizon
Enjoy
the view!
[The accompanying news release can be found below.]
Carolyn PORCO (
Cassini Imaging Team leader
Director, CICLOPS
http://carolynporco.com
http://twitter.com/carolynporco
http://www.facebook.com/carolynporco
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CASSINI SPIES THE ICE-GIANT
PLANET URANUS
Press Release: May 1, 2014
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured its first-ever image of the pale blue
ice-giant planet Uranus in the distance beyond Saturn's rings.
The robotic spacecraft briefly turned its gaze away from the ringed beauty of
Saturn on April 11, 2014, to observe the distant planet, which is the seventh
planet from the sun.
The image is available online at: http://ciclops.org
and
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov <http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/>
The planets Uranus and Neptune are sometimes referred to as "ice
giants" to distinguish them from their larger siblings, Jupiter and
Saturn, the classic "gas giants." The moniker derives from the fact
that a comparatively large part of the planets' composition consists of water,
ammonia and methane, which are typically frozen as ices in the cold depths of
the outer solar system. Jupiter and Saturn are made almost entirely of hydrogen
and helium, with smaller percentages of these ices.
When this view was obtained, Uranus was nearly on the opposite side of the sun
as seen from Saturn, at a distance of approximately 28.6 astronomical units
from Cassini and Saturn. An astronomical unit is the average distance from
Earth to the sun, equal to 93 million miles (150 million kilometers). At their
closest - once during each Saturn orbit of nearly 30 years - the two planets
approach to within about 10 astronomical units of each other.
In addition to its aesthetic appeal, Cassini's view of Uranus also serves a
practical purpose. Scientists working on several of Cassini's science
investigations expect that they will be able to use images and spectra from
these observations to help calibrate their own instruments.
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 Pasadena, manages the
Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The
Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and
assembled at JPL. The imaging team consists of scientists from the U.S.,
England, France, and Germany. The imaging operations center and team leader
(Dr. C. Porco) are based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
For more information visit http://ciclops.org,
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and http://www.nasa.gov/cassini.
-end-
¤·····Subject: Mo01May_14
Received:
Mars images on 1 May
2014.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140501/Mo01May14.jpg
Yukio MORITA (Hiroshima, JAPAN)
¤·····Subject: Mars
30th April UT
Received: 1 May 2014
at 20:39 JST
Unfortunately the
skies have been cloudy here for a while now.
I managed to capture only one set of R,G & B data yesterday between two
cloud banks, but did not have time to view Mars visually. From the data it
appears to be quite a generally hazy/cloudy Mars particularly at the morning
terminator all around to the NPC. The area around Eden/Cydonia also looks
interesting..
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140430/MVl30Apr14.jpg
Best wishes
Maurice VALIMBERTI (Melbourne,
AUSTRALIA)
¤·····Subject: Mars
2014/04/30-Kumamori
Received:
Dear Mr. MINAMI,
Mars images on 30
April 2014.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140430/Km30Apr14.jpg
Teruaki KUMAMORI (Osaka,
JAPAN)
¤·····Subject: ( Non
Title )
Received:
Hi everyone,
At last a (partially)
clear night with acceptable seeing.
We, Melbournians,
missed both the opposition and the closest approach because of the weather.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140430/SBd30Apr14.jpg
Clear Skies,
Stefan BUDA (Melbourne,
AUSTRALIA)
¤·····Subject: BCC
Mars images 2014 Apr 30
Received: 1 May 2014
at 08:55 JST
Hello,
here is a set of RGB images I have collected
on the evening of April 30th.
This is the only set
I have managed to record, as the second session was cut short by rain! I was
chasing holes in clouds, waiting for a large gap where I could run all three
RGB exposures (each of those runs for 90 seconds).
I've managed to
complete one set, then for the second run I recoded R and G and thought to
myself "there won't be enough time for blue" as quite a large cloud
was charging ahead. Surely enough, it covered Mars and better part of the sky
so I decided to try a quick processing of the previous run to check the data,
while waiting for another hole in the clouds. Imagine my surprise when rain
started, quite hard! Now, my setup is portable, set in my backyard, so it was
quite a panic deciding what to pack first! Disconnecting the mains was of
course first priority, then I packed the laptop (which was quite damp by then),
and by the time I got to the telescope water was running down the tube. Luckily
I pointed it down instinctively already so it was only the outside that got
wet. Everything electrical seems to be running fine this morning (laptop,
camera, mount controller, electric focuser and dew controller unit) so
hopefully I'll be ready for the next opportunity. This time I'll have a large
tarp ready, just in case!
Seeing was extremely
variable, so I'm quite happy with the data I've managed to extract from the
single run.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140430/BCr30Apr14.jpg
Best regards,
Bratislav CURCIC (Melbourne,
AUSTRALIA)
¤·····Subject: Mars
Received:
Hi,
For those who were missing the attachment to yesterday's email, here is the link
to my Mars image from 28th April;
http://www.skyinspector.co.uk/USERIMAGES/Mars_2014-04-28_22-25UT_MLewis.jpg
Apologies,
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140428/MLw28Apr14.jpg
Martin LEWIS (St. Albans, the UK)
See more at www.skyinspector.co.uk