Perigee Plus One Posted by: Stephen - 2009-01-12 00:46:39 Permalink

Perigee Moon plus one day.


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Sun Spot 1010 Animation and Coronal Hole Posted by: Stephen - 2009-01-11 18:30:10 Permalink

On January 4th 2008 a reverse-polarity sunspot (about the size of the earth) appeared, signaling the start of Solar Cycle 24.


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Solar activity waxes and wanes in 11-year cycles. Currently at the solar minimum, the new Solar cycle is on it's way to Solar Max. We can expect this peak in solar activity around 2011 or 1012.

The following animation is of the latest 20 images from SOHO and shows sunspot 1010 in action.


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Also of interest is a report from spaceweather.com regarding a solar wind stream which should reach the earth on January 17th, 2009. Here's the latest image from SOHO showing the coronal hole. The circle indicates the area of the coronal hole.


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Perigee Moon Halo Posted by: Stephen - 2009-01-11 02:48:37 Permalink

Just stepped out back and captured a nice halo around the Perigee Moon. This shot was taken at ISO 200 with a 10 second exposure.


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Perigee Moon 01/10/2009 - Take 2 Posted by: Stephen - 2009-01-10 23:55:19 Permalink

Just stacked 7 images in The Gimp. Much better detail in this one. ;)


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Digital art (The Gimp):

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Perigee Moon - 01/10/2009 Posted by: Stephen - 2009-01-10 21:15:09 Permalink

Just after sunset and before the clouds rolled through I was able to snap this shot of the Perigee Moon. The image is taken with a Celestron Omni XLT 150 and Nikon D40 at prime focus.


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My rig with Venus using a point and shoot:

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Imaging the Moon:

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Next to the scope:

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The 150mm:

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