David's Images of the Day Photoblog
Six-Years Ago Today. Northern Red Cardinal. (04-Dec-2018, New Jersey).
The solar disk was observed with a Vespera Pro telescope (250 mm, f/5, 1400 microseconds) using a Solar filter. The sun is near the solar maximum period of the 11-year solar sunspot cycle. The image is cropped to 1204 x 1204 pixels with the apparent diameter of the sun a little less than 0.54°. Processing the image using Topaz AI (noise reduction or sharpening) or AutoStakkert4 (image stacking) did not improve the image.
The comet and tail keep getting smaller and fainter. The estimated magnitude of the comet was +8.3. I am only showing images from the Stellina telescope since the Vespera telescopes are fitted with filters for viewing emission nebulae.
Yesterday the sky was overcast, so no comet images. The comet and tail keep getting smaller and fainter. The estimated magnitude of the comet was +8.2. I am only showing images from the Stellina telescope since the Vespera telescopes are fitted with filters for viewing emission nebulae.
The full “supermoon” this month was extra bright because it was closer to earth. Once it was above the trees to my east, I used the Stellina telescope to record images for a time-lapse video. While reviewing the images I found several images with silhouettes of birds passing in front of the moon. At this time of the year, birds are migrating south, often at night. Even though it may have been a large bird, it must have been a long way away. The cropped image is about 4x magnification.
The comet and tail keep getting smaller and fainter. The estimated magnitude of the comet was +8.0. I am only showing images from the Stellina telescope since the others are filters for emission nebula.
The comet and tail keep getting smaller and fainter. The estimated magnitude of the comet was +7.9. The Stellina telescope did not use a filter and the Vespera II telescope was fitted with a CLS (city light suppression). The CLS filter causes a colored tint to the image.
