Richard Sheppard
December 2021
March 1 2021
Mars and Moon November 2020
Comet Neowise - July 2020
I finally got a bit of a break in the clouds
so although the seeing was not great
thought I would try to get an image of
Jupiter and a moon conjunction and io’s
shadow crossing the disk.
Richard Sheppard - September 2021
Giraffe on the Sun! And Jupiter transits. September 2021
October 2021
Transits of Jupiter
Richard changed these
Into this!
November 2021
Ceres and Aldebaran
I had managed a video of Uranus and now have had a
chance to stack and process it. I am not sure if it was 100%
in focus as its such a faint and un-stable image on the
computer screen whilst trying to focus,then getting all the
other settings right for capture. I have also used a different
type of processing in registax on the video shots of
Jupiter,it shows more details but with a different finish from
the basic linear method, I will send both types to see what
you think. As for Uranus it shows a disk shape but as usual
with this planet no detail.(unless you are Damian Peach of
course). Will give it another go when it get a bit higher in the
sky without waiting up till mid night
Richard sent this photo of M38, also known as the Starfish cluster, in Auriga. This was following the discussion we had at our
December meeting about how important drawing observations was before photography. Of course, digital photography has made
things better as results are seen much faster than in the days of film. Computer software has enable astro-photographers to
achieve images that could only be dreamt about before. The bottom image is M38 as Stellarium shows it.
Stellarium image of M38
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