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South American Total Solar Eclipse now Live

See NASA TV via this link.

Jupiter

Last night again I made some pictures of Jupiter. I used the updated SharpCap 3.2 caputure software. Softwaresetting on Raw32. The optics consist of TAL200K with Barlow x2 and ADC. As camera I used ZWO ASI224MC. In total I took some 20' of pictures and stacking with AutoStakkert!2 and final editing using CS4. Seeing was overal bad.

Weather Summary June

June 2019 had  8 raindays and temperatures rather high with a new record for highest temperature in June (since the beginning of my weather station :) )

Jupiter

Last night I made some pictures of Jupiter. Unfortunately the seeing was bad. Again I used my setup with ADC and Barlow x2 on TAL200K. Pictures were taken with ASI224MC and capturing software SharpCap. Pictures are stacked using AutoStakker!2 and final editing with CS4.
The Great Red Spot (GRS) is seen at the side of the planet.

Livestream South America Total Solar Eclipse

On July 2nd, NASA will Livestream the Total Solar Eclipse via NASA TV. Totality @ La Serena (Chile) begins at 22h38 (Local Time) and ends at 22h40. For live coverage see this link.

Jupiter with ADC

This evening I set up my telescope with TAL200K and ASI224MC camera. A barlow x2 was used including my new ADC. Stacking was done with AutoStakkert! and final editing using CS4.