Solar
& Planetary LtE Now for CMO/ISMO #53 (CMO #427)
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€·····Subject: Mars
and other musings
Received:
Dear Masatsugu,
Thank
you so much for your message, and please do not feel any need to respond right
away, as I gather you are very busy.
I did
indeed notice that
I
could also write something about the famous picture of
I was
profoundly saddened to hear of your recent health problems, and the way that
your problems with your eyesight have hindered the continuation of your long
series of visual observations (going back to 1954?). It must be very
unsatisfactory to have to resort to CCD imaging. I wonder if you have
given thought to how your observations/log books are to be preserved
(archived). Hopefully this will not be necessary to worry about for a
long time, but might I suggest that they find a home in the new
In
closing, dear friend, my deep wishes for better health, and for the favor of
many more Mars observations.
With kind
regards,
Bill SHEEHAN (
P.S. Your comment
about suffering from the strong obsession, and not dealing with other things
while in the throes of your CMO/ISMO work brought a smile to my face; I realize
the strong obsession only too well in myself.
€·····Subject: Re:
Mars 27 September
Received:
Excellent work again
Christophe PELLIER (
€·····Subject:
Occultation of Saturn 20140928
Received:
by the use of a 40cm
Cassegrain (Utsunomiya University Observatory)
Tomio
AKUTSU
(
€·····Subject: Re:
Mars 27 September
Received:
Many thanks. I do not
normally reply to all but I do so now to draw attention to the slanting bright
belt of nph which is separated from the north limb and which strongly reminds
me of an hst image from 2001 taken just before the encircling dust storm of
that year. Most images fail to resolve details in the nph so it is good to see
Good wishes
Richard
Sent from my iPad
Richard
McKIM (
€·····Subject: Mars 27
September
Received:
Dear Richard, Roger,
Jim, Masatsugu and Masami(and Christophe)
I hope that you dont
mind, but I would like, if possible to copy you all on my images in one e-mail,
rather than sending individual e-mails out to all of you. I hope that
this is alright for all of you. If anyone does NOT want to receive my images,
please let me know.
You are welcome to
respond to me individually if you prefer, but if you feel that there are any
comment that are of value to the other people, please feel free to copy them as
well.
Last night, the
conditions were very poor, but I was very pleased with the seeing conditions
tonight, and to be honest, considering the size of Mars, I believe that this is
one of my most successful images so far. I must thank Christophe, who I have
cc'd, as I have incorporated some of his advice over the last few days, and it
has helped me tremendously(Christophe, I will definitely be responding to your
earlier e-mail as requested). Other than the significant clouds over the NPC,
there also appears to be clouds in the region of Mare Sirenum and also possibly
light cloud along the terminator in the Amazonis region.
Best regards
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140927/CFs27Sept14.jpg
€·····Subject: RE:
ISMO
Received:
Dear Masatsugu and
Masami
Thank you very much
for the latest CMO!
I did manage to
capture an image yesterday evening. Unfortunately the seeing conditions were
very poor, and I was also only able to image later in the evening , so Mars'
altitude was also lower. If the quality is not good enough to post/publish,
that is not a problem, but I am sending the image "for the record"
anyway. Due to the poor conditions, I am not sure if the reddish tinge to the
spc is in fact accurate.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140926/CFs26Sept14.jpg
Regarding
July observations, I was priveledged to capture what is believed to be a dust
storm over a period of a few days at the beginning of July. Unfortunately I
only had a color camera at that stage. I have attached a mosaic of the images
taken over the period 30 June-3 July.
Best
regards
€·····Subject: RE:
Solar images 21st-Sept-2014
Received:
Dear Dave (and other
solar observers),
Herewith also a
recent result on sunspot AR2172. Seeing was average to good at time of
imaging that was done with my Celestron 14.
Best regards.
Leo AERTS (
€·····Subject:
Solar images 21st-Sept-2014
Received:
Hi
Guys here are a few shots of the active regions from the 21st. A good looking
spot group now called AR2172 has rotated onto the disc, shown here in white
light and H a. Pity about the poor seeing though.
Best
wishes
Dave TYLER (Bucks, the
www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE
€·····Subject:
Re: ISMO
Received:
Dear
Masatsugu and Masami
Thank you very much for your positive response.
I
have been submitting observations to the BAA (Richard McKim) and also
ALPO(Roger Venables and Jim Melka), as well as the ALPO yahoo group. However,
it does appear that your CMO is a very comprehensive document, so it would be a
priviledge to contribute. I only really started observing Mars seriously about
5 months, when I upgraded my equipment, and I have been learning image
processing techniques over this period, so I still have a lot to learn.
I am not on facebook unfortunately, but am looking to set up a website over the
next month or two.
If there is any specific filenames that are required when I submit
observations, please let me know.
In the meantime, I attach an image that I took this evening.
Best regards, and I look forward to further interaction with you
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140924/CFs24Sept14.jpg
€·····Subject: ISMO
Received:
Dear
Mr Murakami
I am
a member of the Mars section of the BAA and also of ALPO and submit regular
images to both organisations.
I only
now have discovered the website of ISMO/CMO and am very impressed with the
publication.
In
order to submit observations, is it necessary to become a member? If so is there any application that must be
completed?
Thanks
you and best regards
€·····Subject: Mars
Received:
Attached
are two sets of Mars images taken yesterday in fair to average seeing
conditions.
We have
rain predicted here for the next 3 or 4 days, so no more Mars images until it
clears again....
Best wishes
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140922/MVl22Sept14.jpg
Maurice VALIMBERTI (
€·····Subject: Mars
Received:
The
weather has been poor here for quite some time.
This evening the sky was clear and I managed to capture the two data sets of
Mars attached.
Seeing was average to fair.
Best wishes
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140921/MVl21Sept14.jpg
Maurice VALIMBERTI (
€·····Subject: Mars observation Sept 13
Received:
Dear
Mr. Minami,
I hope you are doing well. Please find attached a Mars observation made on the
13th September from here in Bungendore. The seeing was good, and I had a chance
to take L,R,G,B data. I'm not sure if I have the north-south correctly oriented
in the image but I still hope that it is useful to you.
I believe I can see Olympus Mons, plus some vauge dark markings and brightness
over both poles.
It is becoming very difficult to resolve the details on Mars now, I have a
5" telescope, plus is it quite low once the Sun sets from my back garden,
and is affected by the seeing layer towards the city of Canberra (it always
seems worse towards the west, I assume due to the city).
I wish you all the best.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140913/DWd13Sept14.jpg
David WELDRAKE (
€·····Subject: From bill sheehan: remembering antoniadi
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Dear
Martian colleagues,
I am remembering that it has been 5 years ago that we celebrated
(at the Paris and Meudon observatories) the centennial of E.M. Antoniadis
magnificent views of Mars with the Grand Lunette from Meudon, in a meeting
that was memorable indeed, and am thinking of all of you who were there.
Im thinking that it might be high time to have another
international Mars meeting, and am proposing that possibly sometime in 2016
would be ideal, since that will be the centennial of the last opposition of
Mars Percival Lowell observed and also of the great mans death (November 12).
We would (we must) have it in
At this point I am just thinking ahead and trying to gauge
response and whether there would be general interest in such an event.
Ill send this message to others whose e-mail addresses I dont have on
hand but may be available to me at my workplace, and please do the samealso
sending it on to others who might potentially be interested in this affair.
I am also cc:ing it to some friends at Lowell Observatory.
Best wishes,
Bill SHEEHAN (
€·····Subject: Solar images from
Received:
Hello
Dave, (and other solar observers)
It
seems that the sun is always shining in
Best
regards.
Leo AERTS (
€·····Subject: Solar Images 2-3-8-10thSept
Received:
Hi
Guys Here are a few solar images from the first third of September. Not much in
the way of proms, but plenty of Active regions.
Best
wishes
Dave TYLER (Bucks, the
www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE
€·····Subject: Petavius 2014 September 11
Received:
Dear
All,
This
one escaped from the batch yesterday because the AVI file was corrupted, but I
have repaired it.
Petavius
is always dramatic with its clefts, and here the Vallis Palitzch to the
terminator side is full of shadow, as is Palitzch itself, not separately
distinguishable, and Hase D to the south.
David ARDITTI (Edgware, Middx., the
€·····Subject: Lunar images 2014 September 09 & 11
Received:
On
the 9th seeing was not too good, but the image does show up some of the clefts
in Hevelius and the irregular dome in Grimaldi.
Seeing
was better on the 11th and the image of the Messier twins shows their structure
clearly.
David ARDITTI (Edgware, Middx., the
€·····Subject: From bill sheehan: how are you?
Received:
Dear
Masatsugu,
I have not heard from you in a while. I hope this message finds
you in good health. I am sad that Mars is now too far away from the Earth
to observe well, but happy because this means that the CMO will need more
historical articles, which I willingly supply.
Developments here: my wife and I have acquired a home near
Flagstaff, where our son Ryan will live while he is attending college there and
where we hope to retire a few years hence (meanwhile, we remain in
Willmar). I am hoping sometime to entertain you and your wife and other
traveling members of the CMO there in the future; perhaps for a special event
on the occasion of the centennial of Percival Lowells death in 2016. I
have always wanted to show you around Lowell Observatory, and it is the one
place you have still to visit that is of special importance to all Mars lovers.
With best wishes,
Bill SHEEHAN (
€·····Subject: Mars
Received:
Here
are two image sets of Mars taken yesterday in average to fair seeing.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140905/MVl05Sept14.jpg
Maurice VALIMBERTI (
Received:
Dears,
Uranus under good conditions, with the bright North polar zone and the
equatorial belt South visible:
http://www.astrosurf.com/delcroix/images/planches/u20140902r-03h42.8UT-MDe.jpg
Steady skies,
Marc DELCROIX (
http://astrosurf.com/delcroix
€·····Subject:
Mars
Received:
Unfortunately,
I have been unable to image Mars over the last few days due to rain &
generally bad weather. This evening the sky was somewhat clear with only high
cloud. The seeing looked quite good. Attached are some images of Mars taken in
fair to good seeing, but with variable transparency. There may be some dust
visible in southern latitudes, but edge effects make it difficult to be
objective about the amount & distribution.
Best wishes
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140904/MVl04Sept14.jpg
Maurice VALIMBERTI (
Received:
We on Cassini received wonderful news today. In a review this past summer
of all the 7 NASA missions seeking to extend their operations for several more
years and requesting additional funding to do so, Cassini was the only one of
them receiving an unqualified `Excellent' for its science and future plans.
So, we are now gratefully anticipating another 3 years of exploration, with
mission operations ending on
How wonderful it is to know that we will live out the full, unabridged promise
of this extraordinary mission. For many of us, for the past quarter
century, it has been a way of life. For many of us, its end will mirror the end
of a major portion of our life's work.
But this is no time to get sentimental. We now are looking forward to 3
more glorious years of new discoveries and insights, three more close flybys of
Enceladus, flights over the Saturn pole and through the rings, and, of course,
many more of the most soul-stirring, magnificent vistas there are to be seen
anywhere this side of the Oort cloud.
For more detailed news on this topic, go to: http://bit.ly/1lzZ5nK
Enjoy!
Carolyn PORCO (
Cassini Imaging Team leader
Director, CICLOPS, Space Science Institute
http://twitter.com/carolynporco
http://www.facebook.com/carolynporco
http://carolynporco.com
€·····Subject:
RE: solar Images
Received:
Superb
Leo the C14 +film does a great job
ATB
Dave TYLER (Bucks, the
www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE
€·····Subject:
RE: solar Images
Received:
Dave,
Made
at the same date, August 27th, some high resolution images of sunspots.
Two
examples herewith included.
27
August
27
August
Best
regards.
Leo AERTS (
€·····Subject:
solar Images
Received:
Hi
Guys these two images finish Augusts' solar imaging. Both were were uickly grabbed as the clouds bubbled up.
Scope
was
Best
wishes
Dave TYLER (Bucks, the
www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE
€·····Subject:
Mo11July～17Aug
Received:
Dear
Masatsugu MINAMI,
Mars
Images from 11 July to 17 August.
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140817/Mo17Aug14.jpg
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140728/Mo28July14.jpg
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140723/Mo23July14.jpg
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140721/Mo21July14.jpg
http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/140711/Mo11July14.jpg
Yukio MORITA (
€·····Subject:
Abstract withdrawal from EPSC
Received:
Dear
friends,
I'm sorry to inform you that I have been forced to withdraw my abstract about
Mars observations at the 2014 EPSC. This because I have been completely busy
this summer on working on a book about planetary astronomy - that took us much
more time than initially expected (two full months, i.e. exactly the time I had
planned to use for EPSC).
Looking
forward to see you maybe at EPSC 2015 !
Have
a good time in Lisboa
Christophe
PELLIER (