January 1
Moon and Mars images with 355 mm Newtonian and ASI290MM with a Green filter (for Moon), and ASI462MC for Mars, in good seeing.
Images are stacks of 1300 to 1800 out of 10000.
January 2:
Moon and Mars images with 355 mm Newtonian and ASI290MM with a Green filter (for Moon), and ASI462MC for Mars, again in good seeing.
Images are stacks of 1500 to 1700 out of 10000.
A comparison between Mars images from the 1th and 2nd of January:
January 3:
Moon images with 355 mm Newtonian and ASI290MM with a Green filter, in fair seeing.
Images are stacks of 1300 to 1500 out of 10000.
The transit of a plane in from of the Moon. Olympus M1X with Olympus 100-400 mm lens at 400 mm.
Sun in H alpha and white light on January 19s:
February 22, the Venus-Jupiter and Moon gathering:
March 31
Under fair and good seeing, with the 355 mm Newtonian, ASI174MM, Green filter.:
March 31
Under fair seeing conditions, with the 355 mm Newtonian, ASI174MM and Green filter, the Moon looked ok, but far from what I’ve wanted to image:
A big flare on May 11, 2023, imaged with a 60 mm H alpha scope. 08:49 – 09:17 U.T.
Sunspot 3310 on May 24 in some good seeing moments. 355 mm Newtonian, ASI174MM, Continuum and Astrosolar filters.
The Sun on June 2nd in WL and H-alpha:
H-alpha solar images of June 2. 150mm refractor and Quark filter, and Herschel prism.
H-alpha solar images of June 8. 150mm refractor and Quark filter, and Lunt 60mm.
H-alpha solar images of June 9. 150mm refractor and Quark filter.
Rapid sunspot evolution in AR3354 on June 27, 2023 from 08:09 to 09:18 U.T. (approx 70 minutes).
If you look closely you can see how the sunspot main spots are moving apart!
150 mm refractor, Quark H alpha filter, ASI174MM. Fair seeing.
Giant sunspot AR3354 on June 30 with the 355mm Newtonian in fair seeing:
AR 3363 on July 10, 2023, from 06:10 to 06:37 U.T.
The Sun on July 12, 2023 imaged with a 150mm refractor.
Plasma movement in a large and tall prominence on July 19, 2023.
Imaged in the very poor late evening seeing at 35 degrees Celsius:
Plasma movement in a large and tall prominence on July 20, 2023. The same as the one from July 19.
Sunspots of July 24, 2023, imaged from 2000 meters. 355mm Newtonian, ASI174MM, Continuum filter and Calcium.
The main spot of AR3392 on August 4, 2023.
Imged from up in the mountains, usig the 355mm Newtonian in good seeing and Continuum.
The animation compresses about 19 minutes of realtime action into just seconds.
August 4, 2023 images:
September 11 flare in AR3423 imaged in poor conditions with a 150mm refractor:
Dancing prom on October 5, 2023. About 50 minutes worth of activity in just seconds. Large and active prominence. 150mm refractor with Quark H alpha filter.
Jupiter on October19, 2023. Animation showing the rotation of the planet for about 1.3 hours.
Jupiter in poor seeing on October 21, 2023. RGB, IR and CH4 data.
Partial lunar eclipse of October 28, 2023.
Single shots with Olympus OM1 and 300 f4 lens plus 1.4 TC. Hi res shots.
A few Jupiter animations and images from October 30, with Io and its shadow transiting the planet.
355mm Newtonian in fair/good seeing.
Lunar images of October 30 in good seeing. 355mm with Green filter.
Some lunar images from October 29, under good seeing. 355mm Newtonia with Green filter.
Moon-Venus occulation, November 9, 2023.
115mm APO refrator, Red filter, ASI183MM.
A composition of three images showing the start of Venus ingress, with the planet seen in UV light, with clouds.
Three images were combined to show this:
-one image in UV taken earlier, before the start of the ingress (a 5000 frames stack from 50000 frames, usng a Baader UV filter, and same equipment as the other images),
-one image showing the exact moment Venus enters behind the Moon (a stack of just 50 frames to mitigate a bit the seeing but not a long sequence due t the rapid movement of the Moon),
-one image showing better definition on the Moon (a stack of 600 frames out of 4000, acquired before the ingress).
All three shots were merged in Photoshop.
The plus of this image is that the clouds of Venus are also shown during the event, and I belive it adds a bit of depth to the view. Something simmilar to the famous Apollo images of the Earth rise from behind the Moon.
And two of the images used for the above image:
Jupiter in CH4 as seen on October 30, 2023. Note the GRS with some details inside, and a nice alignment of the storms: GRS, oval BA and a smaler storm. 355mm Newtonian.
Jupiter in October, two shots in good and fair seeing conditions, acquired with the 355mm Newtonian.
Solar activity on November 27, 2023. Imaged with 150mm and Herschel prism (white light) and 60mm H alpha telescope.
Solar activity on November 27, 2023. Imaged with a 60mm H alpha telescope.
The southern lunar limb during the Full Moon of December 26, 2023:
A full-mosaic of the Full Moon on December 26, 2023. This is my largest lunar mosaic yet, almost 180Mp on the original file. Resized here to about 45% due to the size of the file.
355mm Newtonian, ASI183MM, IR 742 filter. Poor to fair seeing. 77000 frames acquired, 21000 retained after stack, 77 regions in total.
maximus photography 