Planetary astronomy is not only a science or imaging techniques. This is people as well! Starting a new kind of articles on the blog, I’m interviewing Manos Kardasis, from Greece…
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A second good night on Jupiter on December 7th, 2013, allowed me to image an old jovian feature that is deeply changing… it looks to be joining the club of the Red spots on Jupiter!
There is one situation favorable to good seeing that I did not talked about in my article Five good conditions for astronomical seeing, because its is rarer and more difficult to identify, the “barometric marsh”. That was the condition for me during the night from 3 to 4 December 2013,…
One of the most fascinating planetary observation that you can make is imaging the surface of Venus, a planet however completely covered by a permanent layer of bright clouds. Or to say it better, you can image the thermal signal of the surface…
Observing under a good astronomical seeing is the main problem of the planetary imager… much more than cameras’ settings or the correct use of softwares! Here are five meteorological conditions easy to catch that favors the sky’s steadiness.
Uranus is still a planet hard to observe for amateurs. If imaging the planet in infrared is now almost common among them since last year, the experience we have in the visible wavelengths corresponding to the human vision is still weak and controversial. What does the HST show about it…
A recurring topic of discussion for planetary imaging is how long the videos can go on planets without losing contrast because of their rotation. Jupiter, that offers so much details but that spins so fast is of course the first concerned! So how long is “too long” on Jupiter?
There are numerous ressources on the web to forecast the weather. Here is my use of the Global Forecast System (GFS) for Astronomy. These are previsions for western Europe but you can find weather maps for any part of the world you are living in !
Autostakkert!2 is currently one of the best processing software for planetary videos. This software realized by Emil Kraaikamp can work with multipoints alignments. I’m testing here different size of those APs to see if it does really matter..