Tuesday, December 20, 2022

2022 Finishing up the year

 Mars near opposition December 21, 2022

The structure near center is called Solis Lacus, or the "Eye of Mars".

The Bubble Nebula 2021


The Bubble Nebula lies about 7000-11000 light years from us in the constellation of Cassiopeia.  The "bubble" is created by the stellar wind from a massive hot young central star.  The nebula is near a giant molecular cloud which contains the expansion of the bubble nebula while itself being excited by the hot central star, causing it to glow.  It was discovered in 1787 by William Herschel.

This is from the older QSi 683wsg camera taken Aug-Oct, 2021 with 36 hours total imaging time.



Solar Prominence on December 30, 2022








Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Jupiter Opposition Sep-Oct, 2022

GRS Transit October 10, 2022




Methane map of Jupiter, per Alan Goldberg it is the IR channel divided by CH4 filter channel




Io transit October 10, 2022



Jupiter Oct 7, 2022




Jupiter opposition occurred September 27, 2022

Transit of Ganymede, Sep 28:



Jupiter in IR and CH4 (methane):



IR Cut:







Tuesday, January 18, 2022

2022 Astrophotography

Mars and Saturn on October 10th, 2022

Europa transit, 9/2022



Saturn, 8/13/2022



Supernova 2022hrs 
near Messier 60, in NGC4647 Spiral Galaxy

Some info here and a google search is worth the bits of info that come up


International Space Station Sun Transit February 9, 2022 - College Park, MD 08:54 AM EST

Hydrogen Alpha:


Photographic:


IC63 - the Ghost of Cassiopeia

These are some of the last images I acquired with the QSI690 camera in Oct-Nov, 2021.  These are IC59 and IC63 nebulae, nicely described in this Hubble article or this ESA article. The star that illuminates this structure, Gamma Cas, is very interesting - unstable and massive, throwing off huge amounts of energy and mass.