Saturn, Mars, Jupiter and other planets depicted
(pictures are not to scale)
Saturn on 22 March 2004, C 11 & Philips ToUCam Pro webcam & new firmware
Saturn at 1 April 2008, C 11 + 3x Barlow
15 frames per second, 1/16 sec exposures, DMK BF21, typically 2800 frames per colour, of which half were used
Mars, 1 August 2003
14 October 2005
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Mars in 2010 with 30 cm newton @ F/16.5 and DMK21 |
The giant planet Jupiter at the opposition of 02/03
ToUCam webcam and Celestron 11
WAIT TILL THE PAGE IS LOADED TO SEE PLUTO MOVE
Pluto (arrow) was photographed with a Celestron 11 at f/3.3, two minutes only. Within as little as 10 minutes the movement of Pluto was noticable on enlarged frames.
The frame size is about a quarter of a degree square.
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Transit of Mercury over the sun
on 7 May 2003. Made by the faithful combination of C 11 and webcam. Also a Thousand Oaks sun filter was used. Note how small Mercury is, compared to the sun! |
Did I SEE Pluto through the telescope? No, I did not even try ... Pollution is too severe here.
June 8 2004 Venus transited the Sun, webcam and Megrez APO
note that Venus is much larger than Mercury!
a very impressive sight this interns black globe against the sun!
below is an overview of this transit
Venus, with C11, ST-8E + H-alpha filter to dim the light beam (!), 0.11 sec in December 2000 (left) and Februari 2001 (right).
