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¤·····Subject: Mars - July 30th

Received: 1 August 2014 at 03:25 JST

 

Hi Mr. Minami and All!, My latest session from july 30th under average conditions.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140730/EMr30July14.jpg

 

Efrain MORALES (Aguadilla, PUERTO RICO)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Solar and Saturn Images 22-25-30th July 2014

Received: 31 July 2014 at 22:11 JST

 

Hi Guys here are a few images of the Sun and Saturn from the past week. The Sun was waking up from a bit of a nap and Saturn was set for an early night ! My two favourite solar system objects, both are just awesome. Processing these images is such a wow !

 


 


 

The relevance of adding the altitude of when the Saturn images were taken is because these are the best altitudes we are going to get from UK (London Latitude) next year, and it gives me some idea of what will be obtainable, assuming similar seeing.

 


 

When I put the colour cam in the scope I had run out of ADC prism correction. 19 degrees proved to be ok, but at 15 degrees there was still blue and red fringing on the colour image, requiring about 6 clicks of channel alignment in Photoshop. Fortunately adding a Luminance overcomes the lack of definition in the colour data.

 

The colour cam was down to 10 fps, Reminiscent of the Toucam days ! Mind you I did have some shed obstruction.

 

Best wishes

 

Dave TYLER (Bucks, the UK) 

www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Mars images

Received: 31 July 2014 at 18:45 JST

 

Dear Dr. MINAMI,

 

Mars images on 29 July 2014.

 

@ http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140729/Ns29July14.jpg

 

Akinori NISHITA (Fukui, JAPAN)

 

 

¤·····Subject: Mo26July_14

Received: 30 July 2014 at 02:13 JST

 

Dear Minami,

 

Mars Images on 26 July 2014.

 

@ http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140726/Mo26July14.jpg

 

Yukio MORITA (Hiroshima, JAPAN)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: The Wonder of Enceladus:  Cassini's Imaging Survey Published Today

Received: 29 July 2014 at 06:11 JST

 

July 28, 2014

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

I am delighted to announce today the publication online, in the Astronomical Journal, of two papersdetailing the results of a 6.5-year imaging survey of the south polar terrain of Enceladus and the geysering activity found there.

All told, 101 geysers have been found erupting from the unique geological basin capping the southern hemisphere of this small icy moon.  Comparison of these results with thosee of other instruments and with predictions of the variation of tidal forces flexing the surface have pointed the way to the origin of the geysers and details of their eruptions.

Go to ...
                         http://ciclops.org

... and find both a new Captain's Log, and a special event page (http://ciclops.org/view_event/202), both describing what all the excitement is about.

[And below please find a news release that went out to the public a moment ago.]


Enjoy!

Carolyn PORCO (Boulder, CO)
Cassini Imaging Team leader
Director, CICLOPS, Space Science Institute
http://twitter.com/carolynporco
http://www.facebook.com/carolynporco
http://carolynporco.com

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Saturn 2014.07.27

Received: 28 July 2014 at 17:38 JST

 

Dears,


Saturn from last night, very low unfortunately (18‹)

 

 




http://astrosurf.com/delcroix/images/planches/s20140727r-21h36.6UT-MDe.jpg



Steady skies,

 

Marc DELCROIX (Tournefeuille, FRANCE)
http://astrosurf.com/delcroix

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: M140726 ishibashi

Received: 28 July 2014 at 10:39 JST

 

Mars image on 26 July 2014

 

@ http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140726/Is26July14.jpg

 

Tsutomu ISHIBASHI (Kanagawa, JAPAN)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: solar images 26-7-2014

Received: 28 July 2014 at 01:32 JST

 

Hi Guys We had a very exciting prominence on the morning of the 26th , I had to do 4 frame mosaics to ensure full coverage on my 1/4" chip. I rotated it 180ฐ "round the limb" as I dont like "upside down proms".

 

Here too are a couple of also rans, but with correct orientations.

 

 


 

 


 

 


 

Best wishes

 

Dave TYLER (Bucks, the UK) 

www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Saturn 2013.07.23

Received: 27 July 2014 at 21:46 JST

 

Dears,

It has been a while ... I imaged at last Saturn, despite mosquitoes, and far away from opposition, from meridian, and only in luminance because my filter wheel did not work on the field ... Anyway I was happyto see again Saturn !

 

 




http://www.astrosurf.com/delcroix/images/planches/s20140723-21h05.4UT-MDe.jpg


Sincerely,


Marc DELCROIX (Tournefeuille, FRANCE)
http://astrosurf.com/delcroix

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Mars images

Received: 27 July 2014 at 18:24 JST

 

Dear Dr. MINAMI,

 

Mars images on 25 July 2014.

 

@ http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140725/Ns25July14.jpg

 

Akinori NISHITA (Fukui, JAPAN)

 

 

¤·····Subject: FW: Your JBAA paper on the Ashen Light

Received: 25 July 2014 at 05:34 JST

 

Dear Masatsugu,
   The attached may possibly be of interest.

JBAA 124-4 Sheehan.pdf

 

   I was in Flagstaff last weekend, and we acquired a property in a wooded area called Kachina Village, about 10 minutesf drive from town (on the Oak Creek canyon side, i.e., approaching Flag from the south).  There are lots of trees so not the best for observing Ifm afraid.
   Our son Ryan will be attending school in Flag and so will use the place for now, but Debb, my wife, and I plan to retire there in a few years.
   Hope all is well with you.


   Warm regards,

 

 Bill SHEEHAN (Willmar, MN)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Saturn 24-July-2014

Received: 26 July 2014 at 23:11 JST

 

Hi Guys much the same as the 23rd set and still attempting to get as much polar detail as possible, in looking for "hexelenace" in the belt next out from the polar hexagon.

 

This set uses a Yellow filtered luminance and to darken the light blue sky. I could try a polarising filter as we are about 90 degrees azimuth from the sun, where it might be effective. Pity it's a weak ND too.

The seeing became useful about 20mins after sunset.

 


 


 

 


 

Best wishes

 

Dave TYLER (Bucks, the UK) 

www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Optotypes on Mars

Received: 26 July 2014 at 18:48 JST

 

Dear Dr. Minami, all,

 

  Please find attached a montage showing the location of the "ODS" or the "Oxus Dark Segment". This oral capsule-like short rod-shaped dark portion is about 120X250km in size,  with its long axis running roughly from NNW to SSE. The center of this elongated shadowy patch lies at 000KW 36KN, about 200km to the ENE of the crater Sklodowska (Marie Curie, 124km across).

 

 

  Also attached here is a montage consists of the images taken by the MGS MOC/NASA (including the probe's approaching image) and the MRO MARCI/NASA to show the varying aspects of the object from 1997 to 2014. The ODS, with its surroundings, seems to have undergone considerable changes in this some twenty years ; During the late 90s to the early 2000s the dark rod had been half-embedded in the wide reddish dark diagonal band at the north]west boundary of the Arabia plateau (broadened Oxus?). Then the lighter zone just south-east off Mare Acidalium (into which the northern half of the ODS had been protruding in the previous years) began widening which has been going on up to this day.  Now in 2014 the ODS stands in the midst of the broad lighter zone east off Mare Acidalium, surrounded by a roundish whiter area.

 


 

  It is suggested that this elongated dark patch had been there from the distant past ; Please find also attached here a possible candidate visually recorded by Professor Shotaro MIYAMOTO of Kyoto University in 1963 by the use of the famous 45cm Zeiss refractor at the Kwasan Observatory. Maybe we are witnessing a part of drastic secular changes of the Martian albedo markings.

 

  It is also interesting that we can check the quality of an image of Mars by this albedo feature. The ODS is considerably small, merely a 0.26X0.55" size dark patch on an Martian disk of 15" apparent diameter, around the classical optical resolution limits of the sizes of our telescopes, so that it can serve us as an indicator of the performances of our imaging/processing systems. In these appartions of Mars, many CMO observers have succeeded in recording the ODS as a tiny round dark dot. The round image shape of the actually elongated feature tells, I think, the margin of the present-day planetary imaging/processing technology. If an image of the ODS blurred and swelled up with the unfavorable seeing condition to fill almost the width of the surrounding broad lighter zone, then it would look like a "bridge" crossing over the whiter zone.

  On the other hand, it would be a bit challenging even for experienced planetary imagers to show its true nature, an elongated outline. Martin LEWIS' s superb plain color image on 16 May 2014 with his 445mm Dobsonian seems to be successful in depicting this elongation of the ODSI(also attached here.)

 


 

  We can find many other "optotypes" elswhere on Mars, some are easy nowadays (Hygens Crater, etc.), some are still challenging (elongation of the Oxus Dark Segment, or 80km across Korolev Crater ; Richard BOSMAN's images on 03 May 2014 clearly show this water ice-filled crater as an Airy disk-like tiny round bright spot....attached here also), and some wait for future chance of being resolved (pitch-black "Landolt C" in Gale Crater where our Curiosity rover is exploring, and the fine spiral structure of the residual Polar Caps, etc.).

 

    Clear Skies with Excellent Seeing!,

 

Reiichi KONNAÏ (Fukushima, JAPAN)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Mars 2014/07/25-Kumamori

Received: 26 July 2014 at 06:55 JST

 

Dear Mr. MINAMI,

Mars images on 25 July 2014

 

Best regards,
 http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140725/Km25July14.jpg

 

Teruaki KUMAMORI (Osaka, JAPAN)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Mars - Images

Received: 26 July 2014 at 00:52 JST

 

Hi Mr. Minami, Here are my latest session of mars from july 22nd, 24th of july.


http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140722/EMr22July14.jpg

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140724/EMr24July14.jpg

 

Efrain MORALES (Aguadilla, PUERTO RICO)

 

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Saturn 23-July-2014

Received: 25 July 2014 at 21:49 JST

 

Hi Guys I had to check out the seeing in spite of Saturn being an hour past meridian at sunset. It sank from 22 degrees alt to 18 over the next hour of imaging. Further information on the Images.

 


 


 


 

Best wishes

 

Dave TYLER (Bucks, the UK) 

www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Mars: July 22, 2014

Received: 24 July 2014 at 11:33 JST

 

Hi -

 I have attached my latest image of Mars July 22, 2014 to be posted. 

 

Thanks,

 

  http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140722/FMl22July14.jpg

 

Frank J MELILLO (Holtsville, NY)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: solar images 15/16/17-July-2014

Received: 21 July 2014 at 17:23 JST

 

Hi Guys Bit of a solar minimum just now, but as I have noted quite often, that there seems to be more prominences when there is a lack of sunspots, just an impression I get. This means there is always something to image.

 

So, here is a selection of prominences over the three days. The one from the 15th was of a type that appears to me to be "different" from the norm ? I see them occasionally, they are brighter and more opaque than others when compare to the solar surface. They lack "stringy" structure, looking more like electrified thick bland smoke. I wonder if they have a classification? How about "Spooks"?

 


 

 

*

 


 

 


 

Best wishes

 

Dave TYLER (Bucks, the UK) 

www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Mars: July 18, 2014

Received: 21 July 2014 at 09:56 JST

 

Hi -

  I have attached my latest image of Mars July 18, 2014 to be posted.

 

  Thanks,

 

  http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140718/FMl18July14.jpg

 

 

Frank J MELILLO (Holtsville, NY)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Mars 2013/2014

Received: 21 July 2014 at 02:35 JST

 

Dear All,

Please find herewith a kaleidoscopic view of Mars during the past 8 months, brought together in one image.

 


 

Best regards.

 

Leo AERTS (BELGIUM)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Drawings 0f Mars

Received: 19 July 2014 at 01:53 JST

 

Dear Dr. Minami,

I am attaching here my piled-up color drawings of Mars, most sorry to be late in submitting my observations.
Our new clinic/house/my observatory will be completed in a couple of weeks, and I hope I'll be able to get back to observation to follow Mars waygoing in this coming August.

     Clear Skies with Excellent Seeing!

 

 

 

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140506/Kn06May14.jpg

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140511/Kn11May14.jpg

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140519/Kn19May14.jpg


 Reiichi KONNAï (Fukushima, JAPAN)

 

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Saturn Images 17-July-2014

Received: 18 July 2014 at 20:53 JST

 

Hi Guys

Probably the last Saturn of this apparition from my location.

Looking at the High Contrast image, where the red +ir filter has enhanced the polar regions, the next belt out from the polar hexagon also appears to me to be hexagonal.

 


 

 


 


Best wishes

 

Dave TYLER (Bucks, the UK) 

www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Mars 2014/07/16

Received: 18 July 2014 at 13:43 JST

 

Hi,

Here is a new set of Mars images... 

  http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140716/XDp16July14.jpg

Newton 180 F7, Powermate x5, ADC

I-Nova PLAC+

 

Best regards,

 

Xavier DUPONT (Saint Roch, FRANCE)

 

 

 ¤·····Subject: mars in the distant

Received: 18 July 2014 at 08:37 JST

 

Hi All

Very poor seeing & very distant I took one image from Mars.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140714/SGh14July14.jpg

 

Best Regards

 

Sadegh GHOMIZADEH (Roudehen, IRAN)

 

 

¤·····Subject: Mars images (April 27th, 2014.)

Received: 18 July 2014 at 05:15 JST

 

Hi all,

 

Here are some Mars images from April 27th. Syrtis Major and Hellas are well placed with Elysium crossing over the bright limb shrouded in clouds.

 

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140427/DPc27Apr14.jpg

http://www.damianpeach.com/mars1314/2014_04_27rgbdp.jpg

 

Best Wishes

 

Damian PEACH (Selsey, WS, the UK)

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

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Rosetta Encounters Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Received: 17 July 2014 at 15:59 JST

 

Carlos Hernandez posted in Facebook (Planetarium & Observatorio Maria Reiche /Casa Andina Classic Colcaj
Rosetta Encounters Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko:

  Towards the end of the first week of August, 2014 a historic spacecraft will arrive at a comet named P/Churyumov -Gerasimenko (named after the astronomers Klim Ivanovich Churyumov and Svetlana Gerasimenko at the Alma-Ata Astrophysical Institute (Kazakhstan) on September 11, 1969). Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has an orbital period of 6.45 years. The comet is currently approximately 3.7 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun and 2.7 AU from the Earth.

This spacecraft is named Rosetta after the ancient Egyptian stone containing Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics and Greek that allowed historians to decipher the Ancient Egyptian language. Rosetta (along with the lander Philae) was developed and launched (March 2, 2004) by the European Space Agency (ESA).

Rosetta required four planetary flybys (three using the Earth (March 4, 2007/November 13, 2007/November 13, 2009) and one with Mars (February 25, 2007) in order to accelerate the spacecraft to a suffcient velocity to reach Comet 67/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

Rosetta will be the first spacecraft to orbit a comet and follow a comet as it heads towards the inner solar system. It will also be the first to deploy a lander (named Philae) upon the surface of the comet on November 11, 2014. The Rosetta spacecraft contains ten instruments that will hopefully discover fascinating details about comets and the early solar system. Recent images obtained by the Rosetta spacecraft as it approaches the comet shows it to be a contact binary (two lobes in contact and orbiting as a single object). This will make the Philae landing in November, 2014 more difficult.

  I have produced a space art scene (spacecraft image courtesy of ESA) of what the Rosetta spacecraft may encounter as it reaches Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on August 6, 2014. The comet's surface may be active and therefore we see the coma surrounding it and jets erupting on it's surface. It should be very exciting to follow the images obtained by Rosetta and Philae in the future. I hope that you all like it.

 


 

Carlos HERNANDEZ (Miami, FL)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Mars - July 13th

Received: 17 July 2014 at 11:34 JST

 

Hi Mr. Minami!, Here is my latest session from july 13th,00:05ut.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140713/EMr13July14.jpg

 

Efrain MORALES (Aguadilla, PUERTO RICO)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Mars 2014/07/15-Kumamori

Received: 17 July 2014 at 07:18 JST

 

Dear Mr. MINAMI,

 

Mars images on 15 July 2014

 http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140715/Km15July14.jpg

Best regards,

Teruaki KUMAMORI (Osaka, JAPAN)

 

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Mars image

Received: 14 July 2014 at 02:10 JST

 

Mid-point of image capture at:
2014 June 08 @ 0133.9 UT

 http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140608/JBd08June14.jpg


Regards,

John BOUDREAU (Saugus, MA)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Mars: July 12, 2014 UT

Received: 13 July 2014 at 12:04 JST

 

Hi -

 

I have attached my latest image of Mars July 12, 2014 at 0:37 UT to be posted.

 

 http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140712/FMl12July14.jpg

 

Thanks,

 

Frank J MELILLO (Holtsville, NY)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Mars 12 July

Received: 13 July 2014 at 02:54 JST

 

Hi All,
I have attached RGB Mars images from 12 July.
The seeing was very good despite gusty winds and fast cumulus clouds.
There was a very bright cloud over Hellas. Noachis is cloudy with hazes across Iapygia-Crocea.
There were hazes in the north polar region. Moderate (2+) violet clearing.


http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140712/DPk12July14.jpg


Best,


Don PARKER (Coral Gables, FL)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Mars image - July 1

Received: 12 July 2014 at 23:57 JST

 

Gentlemen,

Attached is a set of images from July 1 captured in good seeing.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140701/PGc01July14.jpg

 

Regards,

 

Peter GORCZYNSKI (Oxford, CT)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Mars - Images

Received: 12 July 2014 at 03:20 JST

 

Hi Mr. Minami!, I hope all is well.

Here I submit my latest session from july 9th and a lost recovered session from may 6th also my latest Saturn session.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140709/EMr09July14.jpg

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140506/EMr06May14.jpg

 

 


 

Efrain MORALES (Aguadilla, PUERTO RICO)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Mars 2014/06/07

Received: 10 July 2014 at 18:54 JST

 

Hello, an observation of Planet Mars under poor to average conditions.The image of Mars looks somehow blury.
NPC very small and Lemuria remnts is still there. Clouds around nix Olympica and some thin in Arcadia. Thin clouds also south of Cerbenia and Utopia.A massive cloud south of Eunostos. South polar hood.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140607/MKd07June14.jpg

 

 Manos KARDASIS (Glyfada-Athens, GREECE) 

http://kardasis.weebly.com/mars-2013-14.html

 

 

 

 ¤·····Subject: Mars June 10, 2014

Received: 10 July 2014 at 14:19 JST

 

Dear all,

Here's a Mars image from June 10 which will likely be the last for this apparition.

I need to acquire a dispersion corrector to be more successful in imaging at low altitudes in the coming years.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140610/JWr10June14.jpg

 

Best regards,

 

Johan WARELL (Skurup, SWEDEN)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Mars: July 7th, 2014

Received: 10 July 2014 at 13:26 JST

 

Hi -

  I have attached my latest image of Mars July 7th, 2014 to be posted.

 http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140707/FMl07July14.jpg

 

Thanks,

 

Frank J MELILLO (Holtsville, NY)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Mars images (April 26th, 2014.)

Received: 10 July 2014 at 06:36 JST

 

Hi all,

Here are some images from April 26th. Seeing was excellent. Syrtis Major central on the disk with Hellas bright.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140426/DPc26Apr14.jpg

http://www.damianpeach.com/mars1314/2014_04_26rgbs.jpg

 

Best Wishes

 

Damian PEACH (Selsey, WS, the UK)

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

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Mars 2014/06/06

Received: 10 July 2014 at 00:10 JST

 

Hello,
 An observation of Planet Mars under very poor conditions.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140606/MKd06June14.jpg

 

 Manos KARDASIS (Glyfada-Athens, GREECE) 

http://kardasis.weebly.com/mars-2013-14.html

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Saturn and solar images 3-4 July 2014

Received: 9 July 2014 at 02:51 JST

 

Hi Guys As part of their anti spam drive, BT have limited me to 25 recipients per mail, so that means I have to put out 5 e-mails per image set, so I am making them count , hence the 11 images in this send.

 


 

Yet another decent session on Saturn. Although the seeing was very jittery with some morphing, Cassini's division was surprisingly solid most of the timed. The geniuses behind Wijjupos, AutoStakkert and of course Reggistax dragged my data out of the mud and performed their magic upon it. A yellow IR blocked filter was used for Luminance on this one.

 

 


 

The surface solar activity was spectacular over these two days. Here are a few images of it in Ha and white light, where you can follow the progress of the spots.

 


 


 

 

Best wishes

 

Dave TYLER (Bucks, the UK) 

www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: mars.29.june

Received: 8 July 2014 at 12:53 JST

 

Hi All

Bad location ,bad seeing, bad condition  , I took one image from my liebling planet mars .

 

 http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140629/SGh29June14.jpg

 

Best Regards

 

 

Sadegh GHOMIZADEH (Roudehen, IRAN)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Re: Mars 4 July

Received: 8 July 2014 at 03:49 JST

 

Don,
Thank you for your excellent image of Mars. It is apparent that there exists a significant amount of dust over the Martian atmosphere. This is especially notable in the red image! We will have to monitor the planet to see how long the dust persists.

I look forward to your future images.

Regards,


Carlos HERNANDEZ (Miami, FL)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Mo30June01July_14

Received: 8 July 2014 at 01:39 JST

 

 

Dear Minami,

Mars images on 30 June and 1 July 2014.

 

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140630/Mo30June14.jpg

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140701/Mo01July14.jpg

 

Yukio MORITA (Hiroshima, JAPAN)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: RE: Mars observations Apr 17th and May 1st

Received: 7 July 2014 at 09:17 JST

 

Dear Mr. Minami,
I hope you are doing well. Please find attached an observation of Mars from the 7th June, taken with my TOA-130NS refractor. The seeing was very bad, and only large scale features are visible. Even so, I thought it would be useful to you so I have sent it in.

The weather has been terrible since, I have had very little chance to observe Mars for a month now.

The image shows the Acidalium side of Mars with extensive cloud over Mare Erythraeum and Tithonius.

There is a bright patch on the southern limb which may be Argyre.


http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140607/DWd07June14.jpg



Thank you,


David WELDRAKE (Bungendore, NSW, AUSTRAlIA)
 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Mars 3rd July 2014

Received: 7 July 2014 at 08:06 JST

 

Hi,
Possibly my last Mars of this apparition at only 14[ alt., low in the
southwest. Some detail visible with my 222mm dobsonian.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140703/MLw03July14.jpg


Also seen here;
http://www.skyinspector.co.uk/USERIMAGES/Mars_2014-07-03_22-04UT_MLewis.jpg

Cheers,

Martin LEWIS (St Albans, the UK)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Mars 4 July

Received: 7 July 2014 at 06:08 JST

 

Hi All,
I have attached RGB Mars images from 4 July.
There are bright clouds over Argyre and Eden-Arabia. Clouds also appear over Aram and Tempe.
Hazes over are seen over Erythraeum-Chryse. There is 2+ violet clearing, especially on the north.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140704/DPk04July14.jpg


Best,


Don PARKER (Coral Gables, FL)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: My Interview on Star Talk Radio:  'In Your Face'

Received: 6 July 2014 at 12:59 JST

 

July 5, 2014

Dear Friends and Colleagues,
 Don't forget!  The conclusion of my interview for Star Talk Radio, conducted by its host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, also the host of TV's "Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey", will be posted to ...
            http://startalkradio.net

... at 7:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time tomorrow, July 6.   It will also be available on iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher and TuneIn.

 

Judging from this preview blog post written about Part 2, entitled 'In Your Face' (I wonder why? ;-) ) by one of the show's producers, Jeff Simons ...
                 http://bit.ly/1sgvQp5

... it turned out really good!

[The first part of the interview, aired last Sunday, can be found at the top of the show's archives here ...
                 http://www.startalkradio.net/shows-archive/  ]
Enjoy!

Carolyn PORCO (Boulder, CO)
Cassini Imaging Team leader
Director, CICLOPS, Space Science Institute
 http://twitter.com/carolynporco
http://www.facebook.com/carolynporco
http://carolynporco.com

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Mars 2014/07/04

Received: 5 July 2014 at 15:42 JST

 

Hi,

Here is a new set of Mars images... 

 

  http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140704/XDp04July14.jpg

Newton 180 F7, Powermate x5, ADC

I-Nova PLAC+

 

Best regards,

 

Xavier DUPONT (Saint Roch, FRANCE)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Mars - June 28th, July 1st

Received: 5 July 2014 at 06:53 JST

 

Hi Mr.Minami and All!,

Here are my latest sessions from june 28th, july 1st under below average conditions due to constant saharra dust aerosols in the region.


http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140701/EMr01July14.jpg

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140628/EMr28June14.jpg

 

Efrain MORALES (Aguadilla, PUERTO RICO)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Mars Image 2014/06/02

Received: 4 July 2014 at 21:03 JST

 

Dear Masatsugu and Masami,

I send you one image.

 

»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140602/CTr02June14.jpg

Mars, 2014/06/02 UT 03:09:54

CM=354.0‹

SC LX200UHTC 254mm @ f/28

ASI120MM + RGB @ 4196/3008/1177 frames @ 47/33/13 fps

S: 5/10 – T: NA – Alt: 54‹

 

Charles Triana - AstroExplor Observatory - Colombia

 

Comments:

This image is observed, relative to the image of the previous day in the same area, a change in the structure of clouds between Acidalium and NCP. In the picture the day before a complete cloud in WE direction is observed and in this new image the cloud zone has separated or has changed shape.

»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»

 

Best regards,

 

Charles TRIANA Ortiz (Bogotá, COLOMBIA)
AstroExplor Observatory
www.astroexplor.org
astromail@astroexplor.org

 

 

¤·····Subject: Mars 29 June

Received: 4 July 2014 at 13:16 JST

 

Hi All,
I have attached RGB Mars images from 29 June. Bright clouds are seen
over Chryse and Solis Planitia with Ascraeus and Pavonis Montes
visible through the clouds. The NPC appears split.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140629/DPk29June14.jpg


Best,


Don PARKER (Coral Gables, FL)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Mars: July 1st, 2014

Received: 4 July 2014 at 11:38 JST

 

Hi -

  I have attached my latest image of Mars July 1, 2014 at 0:50 UT to be posted.

 

 http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140701/FMl01July14.jpg

 

Thanks,

 

Frank J MELILLO (Holtsville, NY)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Mars 2014/07/02

Received: 3 July 2014 at 14:05 JST

 

Hi,

 Here is a new set of Mars images... 

  http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140702/XDp02July14.jpg

Newton 180 F7, Powermate x5, ADC

I-Nova PLAC+

 

Best regards,

 

Xavier DUPONT (Saint Roch, FRANCE)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Saturn and solar images from 22june-1July-2014

Received: 2 July 2014 at 22:09 JST

 

Hi Guys

 Here are a few pics from last week .

 

Saturn from the 1st July, excellent seeing for 23degs elevation . I decided to go all out for the best polar hex I could get. The Trutek Red type1 filter also helped darken the blue sky.

 

 

 

Also from the 1st July and 30 Jun is the most spectacular sunspot group for some time, imaged in Ha as well as white light.

 

 

 


 

 

Included are the best of the proms from the week. The 08:35 one from the 22nd Jun is quite unusual in its "fineness" , It was also faint and quite lovely don't you think.

 


 

Best wishes

 

Dave TYLER (Bucks, the UK) 

www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Mars 2014/07/01-Kumamori

Received: 2 July 2014 at 20:17 JST

 

Dear Mr. MINAMI,

 

Mars images on 1 July 2014

 http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140701/Km01July14.jpg

Best regards,

Teruaki KUMAMORI (Osaka, JAPAN)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Mars 2014 Map-Kumamori

Received: 1 July 2014 at 18:31 JST

 

Dear Mr. MINAMI,

 

Mars 2014 Map.

 


 

Best regards,

Teruaki KUMAMORI (Osaka, JAPAN)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: We, the New Saturnians, Ten Years Ago Today

Received: 1 July 2014 at 04:30 JST

 

June 30, 2014

Dear Friends and Colleagues,
So here we are ... exactly ten years on and looking back with great pride and pleasure at the accomplishments of June 30, 2004, the night Cassini and we took up residence around Saturn and began our history-making explorations of the richest planetary system in orbit around our Sun.

To mark this special anniversary, I have posted today a new and brief Captain's Log reflecting on that night.  In it, I provide a link to an extended piece that I wrote ten years ago for The Planetary Society
about the transforming events surrounding that remarkable time.

Go to ...       http://ciclops.org

... and remember along with me the oh-so-perfect way it all went down a decade ago.

Enjoy!

Carolyn PORCO (Boulder, CO)
Cassini Imaging Team leader
Director, CICLOPS, Space Science Institute
http://twitter.com/carolynporco
http://www.facebook.com/carolynporco
http://carolynporco.com

 

 

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