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¤·····Subject: Mars image - December 27, 2013

Received; 29 December 2013 at 11:24 JST

 

Gentlemen,

 

Attached is a set of images captured in less than average seeing.

 

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/131227/PGc27Dec13.jpg

 

Regards,

 

Peter GORCZYNSKI (Oxford, CT)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Mars on 24th of Dec 2013

Received; 26 December 2013 at 16:06 JST

 

Hi everyone,

 

Please find attached my first Mars image for the apparition. The seeing was rather poor.

 

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/131224/SBd24Dec13.jpg

 

Best regards,

 

Stefan BUDA (Melbourne, AUSTRALIA)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Jupiter 2013 December 10 (further)

Received; 25 December 2013 at 08:58 JST

 

Herefs some further images from December 10, but the other end of the day. These were taken well before culmination, which was good because after midnight the sky, which had been stable for some time because of high pressure, fogged over.

 

Ifve noticed some very small errors in the image timings in the previous set I sent, so here they are again with correction.

 


 

Happy Christmas

 

 

David ARDITTI (Middlesex, the UK)

http://staglaneobservatory.co.uk

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Mars  21, 22 November; 8 December 2013

Received; 25 December 2013 at 02:13 JST

 

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/131121/Mo21Nov13.jpg

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/131122/Mo22Nov13.jpg

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/131208/Mo08Dec13.jpg

 

 

Yukio MORITA (Hiroshima, JAPAN)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Jupiter images on 17 & 21 December 2013

Received; 25 December 2013 at 01:15 JST

 

Jupiter images (J131217)

 


 

Jupiter images (J131221)

 


 

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, the PHILIPPINES)

 

  

 

¤·····Subject: Jupiter 2013 December 10

Received; 24 December 2013 at 09:13 JST

 

I had a busy night; seeing was unusually good for this location. Ian Sharp reported exceptional seeing in Sussex as well, but Damian Peach, in a different part of Sussex, reported poor seeing, strangely.

 

First row are RGB composites. Second row are the same data but presented using an LRGB process, which gives more contrasty results, but worse artefacts. Third row are Infra-red images at 742nm, with Callisto just emerged from occultation in the second one.

 

In total, 24 one-minute videos were processed to give this set.

 

 


 

David ARDITTI (Middlesex, the UK)

http://staglaneobservatory.co.uk

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Joyeux  Noël !!!

Received; 24 December 2013 at 03:36 JST

 

Meilleurs voeux pour un Noël plein de joies

 

et une nouvelle année remplie de bonheur.

 

 

 

 Gérard TEICHERT  (Hattstatt, France)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Holiday Offerings ... All the Way from Saturn!

Received; 24 December 2013 at 03:09 JST

 

 

December 23, 2013


Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Repeat the sounding joy!

We on the Cassini imaging team deliver to the world this holiday season... what else! ... the gift of heavenly imagery starring the majestic globe of Saturn and its two most astounding moons, Titan and Enceladus.

In this, our 10th Christmas offering from across the hundreds of millions of miles that lie between us and Saturn, you will find some of the most splendid and fascinating sights this historic exploration of the ringed planet has uncovered: the hexagonally-shaped jet stream encircling the pole in Saturn's northern hemisphere, the graceful shadows of its rings arcing across its south, the northern lakes and seas of liquid organics hidden under the hazy atmosphere of Titan, the brilliant ball of glittering ice that is the small active world of Enceladus, and more.

Spend a moment or two at ...

         http://www.ciclops.org/view_event/197

... and revel in the marvels that our travels in this far-flung planetary system have brought.

[Below please find our news release that went out earlier today.]


  Happy Holidays to all!

Carolyn PORCO (Boulder, CO)
Cassini Imaging Team leader
Director, CICLOPS


http://twitter.com/carolynporco
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Steve Mullins (720)974-5859
CICLOPS/Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.

Jia-Rui C. Cook (818)354-0850
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Pasadena, Calif.

Image Advisory: December 23, 2013

SATURN AND TWO OF ITS MOONS SPRUCE UP THE HOLIDAYS

Saturn and two of its most fascinating moons, Titan and Enceladus, are Cassini's gifts to you this holiday season. Eagerly awaiting your eyes, all three bodies are dressed and dazzling in this special package assembled by the Cassini imaging team.

The new images are available online at: http://ciclops.org and http://www.nasa.gov
<
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/index.html>

Two different views of Enceladus are included in our package and highlight the many fissures, fractures and ridges that decorate the icy moon's surface. Enceladus is a white, glittering snowball of a moon, now famous for the nearly hundred geysers that are spread across its south polar region and spout tiny icy particles into space. Most of these particles fall back to the surface as snow. Some small fraction escapes the gravity of Enceladus and makes its way into orbit around Saturn, forming the planet's extensive and diffuse E ring. Because these geysers are believed to be directly connected to a subsurface, salty, organic-rich, liquid water reservoir, Enceladus is home to one of the most accessible extraterrestrial habitable zones in the solar system.

Packaged along with Saturn and Enceladus is a group of natural color images of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, highighting two of Titan's most outstanding features. Peering through Titan's hazy orange atmosphere, the Cassini narrow-angle camera spots dark, splotchy features in the polar regions of the moon. These features are the lakes and seas of liquid hydrocarbons for which the moon is renowned. Titan is the only other place in the solar system that we know has stable liquids on its surface, though in Titan's case, the liquids are ethane and methane rather than water. At Titan's south pole, a swirling high altitude vortex stands out distinctly against the darkness of the moon's unilluminated atmosphere. Titan's hazy atmosphere and surface environment are believed to be similar in certain respects to the early atmosphere of Earth, making Titan a valuable resource for further study. Combined, all of Titan's stunning features make a perfect gift of beauty for everyone this holiday season.

While gifts wrapped in ornate packaging stir up excitement and wonder, nothing grabs our attention quite like the majestic tree that they surround, and no holiday package would be complete without a few pictures of the celestial wonder that towers over these impressive moons. The north and south poles of Saturn itself are highlighted this season and appear drastically different from each other in the natural color views released today. The globe of Saturn resembles a Christmas tree ornament in a wide-angle image overlooking its north pole, bringing into view the hexagonal jet stream and rapidly spinning polar vortex that reside there. And the planet's south pole, now in winter, looking very different than the springtime north, displays brilliant blue hues, reminiscent of a frosty winter wonderland.

'During this, our tenth holiday season at Saturn', said Carolyn Porco, leader for the imaging team on Cassini, 'we hope that these images from Cassini remind everyone the world over of the magnitude of our accomplishments and the significance of our discoveries in exploring such a remote and alien planetary system. Happy Holidays... from all of us at Saturn to all of you'.

Launched in 1997, Cassini has explored the Saturn system for more than nine years. NASA plans to continue the mission through 2017, with the anticipation of more ground-breaking science and imagery of Saturn, its rings and moons to come.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a division of the California Institute of Technology in
Pasadena, manages the Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team consists of scientists from the U.S., England, France, and Germany. The imaging operations center and team leader (Dr. C. Porco) are based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.

For more information visit
http://ciclops.org,
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and http://www.nasa.gov/cassini.

-end-

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: mars.22 dec

Received; 23 December 2013 at 11:44 JST

 

Hi all

 

Merry Christmas & Happy new year again, condition was poor  I took in -7 degrees weather  this image .

 

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/131222/SGh22Dec13.jpg

 

Best Wishes  

 

Sadegh GHOMIZADEH (Roudehen, IRAN)

 

 

¤·····Subject: Jupiter 11 December

Received; 22 December 2013 at 03:15 JST

 

Hi All,
 I have attached a belated RGB Jupiter image from 11 December.

 


 

Wishing you all a great Christmas and New Year,

 

Don PARKER (Coral Gables, FL)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Apollo 8 Earthrise re-creation

Received; 22 December 2013 at 06:53 JST

 

Hi all,

I wanted to let you know about a new video NASA has produced, which I narrated and helped to develop, re-creating the Apollo 8 Earthrise.

You can see it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE-vOscpiNc 

 

I wish you all a good holiday and hope to connect in 2014!

 

Andrew CHAIKIN (Arlington, VT)

 

 

¤·····Subject: Jupiter images December 10(11) 2013

Received; 13 December 2013 at 07:56 JST

 

Hi,

Here an overview of Jupiter
December 10, 2013

 




regards,

 

Richard BOSMAN (Ensched, the Netherlands)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Jupiter images - 10th December 2013

Received; 17 December 2013 at 07:15 JST

 

Hi all,
Here are the results of my last good night... now clouds and rain are back again.
The SEB outbreak f. the GRS is still going on.

 

 



http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-10_02-49_rgb_cp
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-10_03-07_rir_cp
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-10_01-56_ch4_cp

 

 

Clear sky to all!

Christophe PELLIER (Nantes, FRANCE) 

Planetary Astronomy and Imaging

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Mars - December 12th

Received; 13 December 2013 at 17:51 JST

 

Hi Mr.Minami, Here is my latest session from 12th 0f december under average conditions.

 

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/131212/EMr12Dec13.jpg

 

Efrain MORALES (Aguadilla, Puerto Rico)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: A Happy (Martian) Christmas

Received; 16 December 2013 at 04:57 JST

 

 

Dear Mars friends:

I send you my best wishes for the Festive Season and for 2014. Attached is a selection of my best drawings of the planet at each opposition from 1995 till 2010. I look forward to receiving any observations you may make of the Red Planet in 2014. There will be a note about the opposition in the 2014 February number of the BAA Journal, and this will be posted at the BAA Mars Section website in due course.

Yours Ever

Richard McKIM (Peterborough, the UK)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Mars 2013/12/13

Received; 13 December 2013 at 17:51 JST

 

Hello,

Here is Mars on 2013/12/13.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/131213/JPp13Dec13.jpg

 

 

The seeing and the transparency were average.@@
T = -2.5
[C

Regards

Jean-Jacques POUPEAU (Essonne, FRANCE)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Jupiter images 11 December 2013

Received; 13 December 2013 at 12:03 JST

 

Jupiter images (J131211)

 


 

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, the PHILIPPINES)

 

  

 

 

¤·····Subject: Jupiter images 8 December 2013

Received; 13 December 2013 at 05:12 JST

 

Hi all,
Some images from the 8th with Oval BA.
I find strange that the cyclonic oval of SSTB (the one located between two AWO, a little further north) is methane-bright...

 

 

 


http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-08_01-51_rgb_cp
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-08_02-55_rgb_cp

 

 

 


http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-08_01-33_ir_cp
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-08_02-14_ch4_cp
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-08_02-41_uv_cp

 


Best wishes,

 

 

Christophe PELLIER (Nantes, FRANCE) 

Planetary Astronomy and Imaging

 

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Re: Jupiter 12/07: full multispectral set on WSZ

Received; 11 December 2013 at 16:51 JST

 

Hi Christophe,

these images are excellent!

This night I also was able to capture the WSZ with my 6" Mak and the ALCCD5L-IIc just before the clouds rolled in...

Under good conditions observer with smal telescopes can also catch these structure. :-)

 

 

 

 

Cheers

 

 

Silvia KOWOLLIK (Ludwigsburg , Germany)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Solar Images 9-Dec-2013

Received; 11 December 2013 at 08:07 JST

 

Hi Guys there were a few fascinating sights up there on the 9th. Especially the very fast changing "black flame" filament from the flare in AR 1917. Pity about the poor seeing.

 

 


 

All Images 90mm Coro DS, The type with the fixed tune secondary 60mm dia etalon positioned nearer to the focus.

 

Best wishes

 

 

Dave TYLER (Bucks, the UK

www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE

 

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Jupiter 12/07: full multispectral set on WSZ

Received; 11 December 2013 at 08:04 JST

 

Hi all,
Here are the results of a second clear night, under very good seeing. The reddened WSZ is well visible, and I would agree to say that it is joining the club of the red spots on Jupiter...
A new red spot on Jupiter?


I did a comparison with 2012 multispectral data in the first RGB image:

 

 



http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-07_01-31_rgb_cp

 

 

 



http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-07_03-07_lrgb_cp
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-07_01-35_b_cp
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-07_02-59_b_cp

 

 

 



http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-07_02-39_ir_cp
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-07_02-16_ch4_cp
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-07_01-48_uv_cp

Best wishes,

 

Christophe PELLIER (Nantes, FRANCE) 

Planetary Astronomy and Imaging

 

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Jupiter images on 7 December 2013

Received; 9 December 2013 at 13:34 JST

 

Jupiter images (J131207)

 


 

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, the PHILIPPINES)

 

  

 

¤·····Subject: Mars image - December 8, 2013

Received; 9 December 2013 at 10:15 JST

 

Gentlemen,

 

Seeing was on the poor side this morning.  The soft detail in the R image is testimony to that.

 

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/131208/PGc08Dec13.jpg

 

Regards,

 

Peter GORCZYNSKI (Oxford, CT)

 

 

¤·····Subject: Jupiter 2013 October 29

Received; 9 December 2013 at 09:39 JST

 

Herefs a Jupiter image just processed from earlier in the apparition.

 


 

 

David ARDITTI (Middlesex, the UK)

http://staglaneobservatory.co.uk

 

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Jupiter images - 4th December 2013

Received; 9 December 2013 at 00:08 JST

 

 

Hi all,
I finally had some good nights this week, after more than a month of very poor weather. Here are images from the 4th, good seeing, but fair transparency.
There was a barometric marsh that night, one of the situation that favors good seeing :)

 



http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-03_23-58_ir_cp
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-04_00-31_rgb_cp
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-04_00-59_rir_cp

 

 

 

 


http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-04_02-05_rgb_cp
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-04_01-15_ch4_cp
http://www.astrosurf.com/pellier/j2013-12-04_01-38_uv_cp

Best wishes,

 

Christophe PELLIER (Nantes, FRANCE) 

Planetary Astronomy and Imaging

 

 

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Solar Images 6-Dec-2013

Received; 8 December 2013 at 19:53 JST

 

 

Hi Guys The sun here peaked at only 16 degrees ALT' on the 6th, so I felt lucky to be able to record some of that days phenomena in reasonable detail.

 


 


 

Camera Flea 3 1/4 inch chip

 

Ha Images Coronado 90 Double stacked .

 

"White light" spots with 5 inch AP Intes Herschel wedge with 1 Ir blocker 3 nd's and a red filter.

 

Best wishes

 

 

Dave TYLER (Bucks, the UK

www.david-tyler.com
Ham call G4PIE

 

 

¤·····Subject: Jupiter 2013 December 05

Received; 8 December 2013 at 09:14 JST

 

Somewhat disappointing seeing, this is what I have managed to salvage from a single RGB run.

 


 

David ARDITTI (Middlesex, the UK)

http://staglaneobservatory.co.uk

 

 

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Jupiter images on 4 December 2013

Received; 6 December 2013 at 23:39 JST

 

Jupiter images (J131204)

 


 

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, the PHILIPPINES)

 

  

 

¤·····Subject: Mars image - December 4, 2013

Received; 5 December 2013 at 13:08 JST

 

Gentlemen,

 

Seeing was only average.  Transparency was poor with the images captured through thin clouds.

 

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/131204/PGc04Dec13.jpg

 

Regards,

 

Peter GORCZYNSKI (Oxford, CT)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Cassini views Saturns polar hexagon

Received; 5 December 2013 at 10:27 JST

 

In case some people here haven't seen this:

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-350

cheers,

 

Anthony WESLEY (NSW, Australia)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Mars image - December 3, 2013

Received; 4 December 2013 at 12:31 JST

 

Gentlemen,

 

Here is a set of Mars images from December 3 captured under a very steady sky.

 

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/131203/PGc03Dec13.jpg

 

Regards,

 

Peter GORCZYNSKI (Oxford, CT)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Jupiter images on 1 December 2013

Received; 02 December 21:07 JST

 

Jupiter images (J131201)

 

 


 

 

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, the PHILIPPINES)

 

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Jupiter images november 27th 2013

Received; 02 December 14:44 JST

 

 Hi all,

here some images taken under average conditions. During the night, several times clouds prevented the observation at regular intervals and towards the end of the observation, it was unfortunately foggy so I could not complete the map.

 

 


 

 


 

Silvia KOWOLLIK (Ludwigsburg , Germany)

 

 

 

¤·····Subject: Mars image - November 30, 2013

Received; 2 December 2013 at 07:10 JST

 

Gentlemen,

 

Attached is a set of Mars images from the morning of November 30, 2013.  It was cold (-11C) and calm, with good transparency.  Seeing was a little above average.

 

 

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/131130/PGc30Nov13.jpg

 

Regards,

 

Peter GORCZYNSKI (Oxford, CT)

 

 

¤·····Subject: Mars images  Ak30Nov13

Received; 1 December 2013 at 19:54 JST

 

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/131130/Ak30Nov13.jpg

 

 

 

Jupiter images (J131130)

 


 

 

 

 Saturn image (S131131)

 


 

 

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, the PHILIPPINES)

 

 

 

 ¤·····Subject: Mars: November 30, 2013

Received; 1 December 2013 at 16:09 JST

 

 Hi

 

I am sending you my first image of Mars this season November 30, 2013 at 11:37 UT to be posted.

 

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2013/131130/FMl30Nov13.jpg

 

 

Thanks,

 

  Frank J MELILLO (Holtsvill, NY, The USA)

 

 


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