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This is a photo of Jupiter about to be occulted by the Moon on 23rd February 2002. Unfortunately, I was not able to obtain any more because cloud rolled in seconds after this was taken. The camera was my Canon EOS 650 at prime focus on the Celestron C8, on a 400 ISO film. |
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This picture of Jupiter was taken in 2003 with a Nikon Coolpix 4500 digital camera on the digiscoping mount, through a 25mm eyepiece on my Celestron C8. Some cloud belts can be seen as well as the moons Io and Europa to the right and if you look hard, Ganymede to the left, just! A longer exposure would have shown Callisto, but burnt out the detail on Jupiter. Also, atmospheric wobble blurs the image the longer the exposures are. |
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This picture of Saturn was taken in a similar way as the Jupiter shot, there is a darker band in the rings which denote the area of the Cassini Division. The image was cleaned up a little in Paint Shop Pro 7. |
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This is a photo of the transit of Mercury on 7th May 2003, taken at approx 05:15 UT. This photo and the next were taken using my Celestron C8 and Nikon Coolpix 4500 on the digiscoping mount, through a 25mm eyepiece. Again, a home-made filter using Baader Solar Film was put over the front of the telescope. |
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The Transit of Venus 8th June 2004. (Click on the picture for more images and two animations). The last one was on 6th December 1882. They occur in pairs, 8 years apart, the next one will be on 5th June 2012 and the one after that will be in December 2117. This is a line-of-sight effect when Venus is directly between the Sun and the Earth. In the past this event was studied to try and determine the distance of the Earth from the Sun by timing the transit. Using these results the distances of the other planets could be calculated. |
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This grazing Lunar occultation occurred during daytime on 2nd March, 2007 and had it's own unique challeges. This picture was taken using a Celestron NexImage webcam and the video stream was then processed in Registax to produce an image. The webcam was used at prime focus on my Celestron C8, and due to small CCD chip, the magnification is quite large. |
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Daylight occultation of Venus on 18th June 2007. The beginning of this occultation was at 14:01 U.T. I was blessed with a fine, clear day for this event, and imaged it using my NexImage webcam. This shot shows a flattening of the disc of Venus, where it was being occulted by the Moon. |
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Daylight occultation of Venus on 18th June 2007. This is the end of the occultation at 15:21 U.T. I used Redshift 5 to predict the egress point, then Virtual Moon Atlas to show me where to point the telescope in the correct place, as well as to name some features. |
