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¤•••••Subject: Mars 2020/01/01-Kumamori

Received: 2 January 2020 at 17:38 JST

 

Mars images on 1 January 2020.

 

https://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2020/200101/Km01Jan20.png

 

Best Regards,

 

Teruaki KUMAMORI (Osaka, JAPAN)

 

 

 

¤•••••Subject: Comet C/2017 T2 (PanSTARRS) - Dec 30th.

Received: 31 December 2019 at 21:37 JST

 

Hi all,

One last image for 2019. Here is C/2017 T2 on Dec 30th.

 

20" CDK with FLI CCD. LRGB. 30/2/2/2min.

 


http://www.damianpeach.com/deepsky/c2017t2_2019_12_30dp.jpg

 

Wishing you all a happy and healthy 2020!

 

Damian PEACH (Selsey, WS, the UK)

http://www.damianpeach.com/

 

 

 

¤•••••Subject: Mo28Dec

Received: 31 December 2019 at 08:12 JST

 

Mars images on 28 December 2019.

 


 

Best Regards,

 

Yukio MORITA  (Hiroshima, JAPAN)

 

 

 

¤•••••Subject: Mars 2019/12/28-Kumamori

Received: 29 December 2019 at 18:08 JST

 

Mars images on 28 December 2019.

 


 

Best Regards,

 

Teruaki KUMAMORI (Osaka, JAPAN)

 

 

 

¤•••••Subject: Comet C/2016 R2 (PanSTARRS)

Received: 25 December 2019 at 03:39JST

 

Hi all,

Here is one final previously unprocessed set of data on this comet.

What a fascinating and dynamic object it was.

 


http://www.damianpeach.com/deepsky/c2016_r2_2018_01_18dp.jpg

 

16" F3.6 with FLI camera. LRGB. 30/3/3/3 mins.

 

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas!

 

Damian PEACH (Selsey, WS, the UK)

http://www.damianpeach.com/

 

 

 

¤•••••Subject: Comet C/2017 T2 (PanSTARRS) on Dec 18th,

Received: 20 December 2019 at 04:35 JST

 

Hi all,

Here is an image of C/2017 T2 obtained yesterday. A nice short but curved dust tail.

 


 

http://www.damianpeach.com/deepsky/c2017t2_2019_12_18dp.jpg

 

20" CDK with FLI camera. LRGB. 30/2/2/2min.

 

Best wishes,

 

Damian PEACH (Selsey, WS, the UK)

http://www.damianpeach.com/

 

 

 

¤•••••Subject: Archimedes & Aristoteles (December 6th.)

Received: 18 December 2019 at 04:57 JST

 

Hi all,

Here are a couple of recent lunar images. Fair seeing.

 


http://www.damianpeach.com/lunar19/aristoteles_2019_12_06dp.jpg

 

 


http://www.damianpeach.com/lunar19/archimedes_2019_12_06dp.jpg

 

Both obtained using the 1m telescope in Chile.

 

Best wishes,

 

Damian PEACH (Selsey, WS, the UK)

http://www.damianpeach.com/

 

 

 

¤•••••Subject: Uranus images on 16 December 2019

Received: 16 December 2019 at 23:58 JST

 

Uranus images on 16 December 2019.

 


 

Best Regards,

 

Tomio AKUTSU (Ibaraki, JAPAN)

 

 

 

¤•••••Subject: Minami's Mars drawings

Received: 14 December 2019 at 04:22 JST

 

Dear Tomoko, Masami, Reiichi and friends,

   Yesterday I began reviewing Masatsugu’s observing log books, which are now out of deep freeze (for preservation).  This work was a preliminary to scanning them and putting them on-line for researchers worldwide to be able to access them.  I must admit that I had never had the opportunity to study closely Masatsugu’s work—he was somewhat secretive about it—but now that I have had the chance to see what he was up to, my admiration knows no bounds.  I am so glad that Lowell Observatory has been able to accept and take the kind of care of this masterful work that it deserves. 

   Not only was he the most persevering and knowledgeable visual observer of Mars I have personally known, he was also one of the very greatest artists in depicting the Martian features. 

  In advance of the scans, I am sending a few examples of Masatsugu’s work from October 2005 with the 91-cm Lick refractor, which I played a small role in helping to arrange.  Unfortunately, another guest proved to be rather annoying—especially to Masatsugu—and the most I contributed was getting him out of Masatsugu’s sight for several days (I took him on a trip to Mt. Wilson) so that he could observe Mars all night as long as conditions allowed with Rem Stone, Laurie Hatch, and Tony Misch, all of whom were living on Mt. Hamilton at the time.  Masatsugu’s series of drawings of Mars—simply because of the aperture and quality of the telescope and conditions—are in a class by themselves even among Masatsugu’s oeuvre, and remind me of the work of such great classical observers as Barnard and Antoniadi. (It makes me feel rather guilty that I wasted some of the valuable time that Masatsugu could have spent at the eyepiece making my own observations—but perhaps I can be forgiven that indulgence!)

   Masatsugu stayed on Mt. Hamilton long enough to catch the development of one of his beloved dust storms—see figure 4 below. 

 


   It’s a revelation to be looking through Masatsugu’s brilliant work in the archives of Lowell Observatory, where all those log books of Percival Lowell and his associates also reside—and brings home like nothing else the powerful influence of the “personal equation” in all the observations that anyone makes.

 

   More soon, but an interim report for friends

 

   Best, Bill

 

Bill SHEEHAN (Flagstaff, AZ)

 

 

 

¤•••••Subject: Venus (December 5th.)

Received: 12 December 2019 at 05:25 JST

 

Hi all,

Here is an IR image of Venus from December 5th. Some faint cloud markings are seen.

 


 

http://www.damianpeach.com/venus19/2019_12_05ir800_dp.jpg

 

Best wishes,

 

Damian PEACH (Selsey, WS, the UK)

http://www.damianpeach.com/

 

 

 

¤•••••Subject: Early Mars Images.

Received: 1 December 2019 at 10:53 JST

 

Hi All,
Here on some early Mars images, taken with an 203mm (8") Newtonian telescope.

Using a ZWO ASI 290mm camera with a proplanet 742 filter and a 2.5X powermate.

These images were taken during daylight hours.

 


 

Best to all.


Tim WILSON  (Jefferson City, Mo )

 


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