From Canon to Cassini

A year in photographs

Westchester Amateur AstronomersSeptember 7, 2012

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Photos from Here and There

This time last year - you

Hurricane Irene GOES-13

This time last year – Carol and me

Denali, Alaska

Transit of Venus, filtered by clouds

Canon XS, 250mm telephoto lens, using LCD screen to avoid directly viewing the sun

Transit of Venus

60mm refractor with solar filter.Canon XS prime focus

How people find my blog: “What does Saturn look like through a telescope?”

Canon XS at prime focus - uncropped

“What does [planet] look like through my telescope?”

Venus Mars Saturn(size as seen through my telescope)

Canon XS at prime focus May 26- 27, 2012

Jupiter

Stop Light

Stop Light – with Jupiter and Venus

Mars rotationNot mine

Moon 8” dob

Tycho – ejecta

Moon Tools

TychoLunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

http://target.lroc.asu.edu/da/qmap

Using terrain data, plot elevations along paths you select

When you can’t see because the sun is in your eyes……

SOHO LASCO C3

http://sungrazer.nrl.navy.mil/index.php?p=transits/transits_2012

Sep02-Sep20 Mercury -1.8 mag right to left

Here

NASA Terra Satellite: 8/30/12 250m resolution

NASA Terra Satellite: 9/6/12 250m resolution

To There

Vesta (a minor planet)

Dawn spacecraft Hubble telescope

On to Ceres, ¡Hasta la Vesta!

Dawn spacecraft Hubble telescope

Next!

Hey, Mars: Incoming!Curiosity - Mars Science Laboratory

MSL’s Goal

Opportunity – 3056 sols – 35km

Over eight Earth years

Cassini at Saturn

Cassini Solstice Mission

<<<<<< Polar vortex – start of Titan’s South Polar Winter?

Rainbow Connection

What’s at the end of the rainbow?

Extras

Rock on Tycho’s Peak

Prime focus 60mm refractor