November 30th 1930 GMT Moon and Jupiter
It was clearing. The Moon had not long risen. I could not
get it and Jupiter in the same field of view with my phone camera, so I zoomed
out to 0.5× and got both objects in comfortably.
November 28th 1800 GMT Moon and Jupiter
There was a brief period where I could photograph the Moon with Jupiter with my phone camera. The wide panorama was near the limit of what I could do with my DSLR at 18mm focal length but it was a comfortable shot with my phone camera.
November 25th 1655 GMT Moon and Jupiter
I snapped the Moon and Jupiter from the car park by the bogs
in Chippenham. I took one shot at normal zoom plus a close-up.
November 25th 0930 GMT Sun
The sky was clear and I checked the Sun with my binoculars and filters. I was expecting a bit more excitement, as the sunspots rotated closer to the centre of the solar disc. Instead, there was less activity than the two days.
November 25th 0010 GMT Moon and Jupiter
In a few hours more, the Moon and Jupiter moved closer to their conjunction later that night.
November 24th 2100 GMT Moon and Jupiter
The Moon moved closer to Jupiter than the evening before.
November 23rd 1725 GMT Moon and Jupiter
I photographed them together, as the evening before but from
the doctor's surgery car park.
November 23rd 1200 GMT Sun
With a clear sky and active Sun, I could be forgiven for
getting outside with my Mak and DSLR, except that I was still getting over a
heavy cold and neither my manager nor my wife would have been impressed. Yet,
if I am well enough to put a coat on and take the rubbish out, I am well enough
to do a binocular scan, right? I’m glad I did. I had seen more sunspots through
my binoculars before but I couldn’t remember when. I saw and drew eight but a
look at the professional observatories suggested that there were about 30 that
I could have caught with my Mak and DSLR.
Still, 8 was much better than zero.
November 22nd 2000 GMT Moon and Jupiter
I really should not have gone to the back door with a cold
but our canines needed potty. I snapped the Moon and Jupiter with my phone
camera.
November 22nd 1220 GMT Sun
Some sunlight broke briefly through thick and thin layers of
moving cloud. I had seen some new sunspot activity on the Learmonth
professional observatory images but the cloud was too thick for any of it to be
visible through my binoculars and filters. So the double frustrations of a cold
and bad weather continued to blight my life, at least from an astronomical
point of view.
November 22nd 1220 GMT Sun
Some sunlight broke briefly through thick and thin layers of
moving cloud. I had seen some new sunspot activity on the Learmonth
professional observatory images but the cloud was too thick for any of it to be
visible through my binoculars and filters. So the double frustrations of a cold
and bad weather continued to blight my life, at least from an astronomical
point of view.
November 15th 1200 GMT Sun
There were intermittent breaks in the cloud and they parted
to reveal two small sunspots near the limit of resolution in my binoculars.
November 15th 0610 GMT Venus
More in hope than expectancy, I snapped Venus in the dawn
sky, hoping to detect its phase, which becomes more difficult as it approaches
full. The image showed that the phase was gibbous and not full but I did not properly "nail" the shot.
November 11th 0920 GMT Sun
It was a bright and sunny morning, so I had to do what I had
to do. I snapped the Sun through my Mak and DSLR at my usual settings.
November 10th 2015 GMT Meteor Hunt
I aimed my camera in the direction of Taurus and waited and
hoped!
Alas, it was in vain, as I did not catch any meteors or anything else.
November 10th 1215 GMT Sun
I saw what appeared to be two sunspots through my binoculars
and filters. A look at the GONG professional observatories site showed that the
oval sunspot was two that I could not separate in my binoculars.
November 9th 1200 GMT Sun
After the excitement of the lunar occultation of Venus, I saw a single sunspot through my binoculars and filters before the predicted showers.
November 30th 1930 GMT Moon and Jupiter
It was clearing. The Moon had not long risen. I could not
get it and Jupiter in the same field of view with my phone camera, so I zoomed
out to 0.5× and got both objects in comfortably.
November 28th 1800 GMT Moon and Jupiter
There was a brief period where I could photograph the Moon with Jupiter with my phone camera. The wide panorama was near the limit of what I could do with my DSLR at 18mm focal length but it was a comfortable shot with my phone camera.
November 25th 1655 GMT Moon and Jupiter
I snapped the Moon and Jupiter from the car park by the bogs
in Chippenham. I took one shot at normal zoom plus a close-up.
November 25th 0930 GMT Sun
The sky was clear and I checked the Sun with my binoculars and filters. I was expecting a bit more excitement, as the sunspots rotated closer to the centre of the solar disc. Instead, there was less activity than the two days.
November 25th 0010 GMT Moon and Jupiter
In a few hours more, the Moon and Jupiter moved closer to their conjunction later that night.
November 24th 2100 GMT Moon and Jupiter
The Moon moved closer to Jupiter than the evening before.
November 23rd 1725 GMT Moon and Jupiter
I photographed them together, as the evening before but from
the doctor's surgery car park.
November 23rd 1200 GMT Sun
With a clear sky and active Sun, I could be forgiven for
getting outside with my Mak and DSLR, except that I was still getting over a
heavy cold and neither my manager nor my wife would have been impressed. Yet,
if I am well enough to put a coat on and take the rubbish out, I am well enough
to do a binocular scan, right? I’m glad I did. I had seen more sunspots through
my binoculars before but I couldn’t remember when. I saw and drew eight but a
look at the professional observatories suggested that there were about 30 that
I could have caught with my Mak and DSLR.
Still, 8 was much better than zero.
November 22nd 2000 GMT Moon and Jupiter
I really should not have gone to the back door with a cold
but our canines needed potty. I snapped the Moon and Jupiter with my phone
camera.
November 22nd 1220 GMT Sun
Some sunlight broke briefly through thick and thin layers of
moving cloud. I had seen some new sunspot activity on the Learmonth
professional observatory images but the cloud was too thick for any of it to be
visible through my binoculars and filters. So the double frustrations of a cold
and bad weather continued to blight my life, at least from an astronomical
point of view.
November 22nd 1220 GMT Sun
Some sunlight broke briefly through thick and thin layers of
moving cloud. I had seen some new sunspot activity on the Learmonth
professional observatory images but the cloud was too thick for any of it to be
visible through my binoculars and filters. So the double frustrations of a cold
and bad weather continued to blight my life, at least from an astronomical
point of view.
November 15th 1200 GMT Sun
There were intermittent breaks in the cloud and they parted
to reveal two small sunspots near the limit of resolution in my binoculars.
November 15th 0610 GMT Venus
More in hope than expectancy, I snapped Venus in the dawn
sky, hoping to detect its phase, which becomes more difficult as it approaches
full. The image showed that the phase was gibbous and not full but I did not properly "nail" the shot.
November 11th 0920 GMT Sun
It was a bright and sunny morning, so I had to do what I had
to do. I snapped the Sun through my Mak and DSLR at my usual settings.
November 10th 2015 GMT Meteor Hunt
I aimed my camera in the direction of Taurus and waited and
hoped!
Alas, it was in vain, as I did not catch any meteors or anything else.
November 10th 1215 GMT Sun
I saw what appeared to be two sunspots through my binoculars
and filters. A look at the GONG professional observatories site showed that the
oval sunspot was two that I could not separate in my binoculars.
November 30th 1930 GMT Moon and Jupiter
November 28th 1800 GMT Moon and Jupiter
November 25th 1655 GMT Moon and Jupiter
I snapped the Moon and Jupiter from the car park by the bogs
in Chippenham. I took one shot at normal zoom plus a close-up.
November 25th 0930 GMT Sun
November 25th 0010 GMT Moon and Jupiter
November 24th 2100 GMT Moon and Jupiter
November 23rd 1725 GMT Moon and Jupiter
I photographed them together, as the evening before but from
the doctor's surgery car park.
November 23rd 1200 GMT Sun
With a clear sky and active Sun, I could be forgiven for
getting outside with my Mak and DSLR, except that I was still getting over a
heavy cold and neither my manager nor my wife would have been impressed. Yet,
if I am well enough to put a coat on and take the rubbish out, I am well enough
to do a binocular scan, right? I’m glad I did. I had seen more sunspots through
my binoculars before but I couldn’t remember when. I saw and drew eight but a
look at the professional observatories suggested that there were about 30 that
I could have caught with my Mak and DSLR.
Still, 8 was much better than zero.
November 22nd 2000 GMT Moon and Jupiter
November 22nd 1220 GMT Sun
November 22nd 1220 GMT Sun
Some sunlight broke briefly through thick and thin layers of
moving cloud. I had seen some new sunspot activity on the Learmonth
professional observatory images but the cloud was too thick for any of it to be
visible through my binoculars and filters. So the double frustrations of a cold
and bad weather continued to blight my life, at least from an astronomical
point of view.
November 15th 1200 GMT Sun
There were intermittent breaks in the cloud and they parted
to reveal two small sunspots near the limit of resolution in my binoculars.
November 15th 0610 GMT Venus
More in hope than expectancy, I snapped Venus in the dawn
sky, hoping to detect its phase, which becomes more difficult as it approaches
full. The image showed that the phase was gibbous and not full but I did not properly "nail" the shot.
November 11th 0920 GMT Sun
It was a bright and sunny morning, so I had to do what I had
to do. I snapped the Sun through my Mak and DSLR at my usual settings.
November 10th 2015 GMT Meteor Hunt
November 10th 1215 GMT Sun
November 9th 1200 GMT Sun
After the excitement of the lunar occultation of Venus, I saw a single sunspot through my binoculars and filters before the predicted showers.
November 9th Various Times Occultation of Venus by the Moon
November 7th Meteor Hunt
November 7th 0615 GMT Moon and Venus
The Moon was even closer to Venus than the day before. I
snapped them together using the same settings as the day before.
I snapped both objects separately through my telescope at
1.54m focal length, ISO 100 and 1/200 second exposure.
I combined all 3 photos to get the final result.
November 6th 0610 GMT Moon and Venus
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I then snapped each of them at 300mm focal length, ISO 100
and 1/200 second exposure. The Moon photo showed well but, with Venus showing only a small image, I did not get focus.
The final step was to combine the two photos to get a composite shot.
November 5th 0935 GMT Sun
It was amazing to think that it was well into autumn, yet
still warm enough to wear shorts outside, even though I had coat on top of my
T-shirt. I had a busy day on, so just time for a full disc solar session.
I used my Mak. DSLR and filter at 1.54m focal length, ISO
100 and 1/500 second exposure. I could see sunspots through my camera
viewfinder, so felt optimistic about a result.
November 3rd 2120 GMT Meteor Hunt
November 3rd 1300 GMT Sun
As for the two days before, some solar photons made it
through the cloud and reached my binoculars and filters. There was a new large
sunspot and one of the other two had faded below binocular visibility.
November 1st 1220 GMT Sun
The pale midday sunlight reached my binoculars and filters. The sunspots from the day before had apparently grown slightly larger, with the leftmost one fading in intensity.
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