A few nights ago on 9th July 201 it was ninety nine percent waxing gibbous it was bound to rain that night with incoming traditional New Zealand winter … just before the week’s oncoming of another round of polar blast that’s hitting New Zealand soon in the upcoming week…..in view of that is the moon going towards the full moon in which details of the moon Luna get wash out by the intensity of the light as the Earth Shadow that causes her unveil terminator herself in showing her silk satin cratered lacy wedding dress in showing the deeps of that Luna surface craters embroidery work that showing in through the clouds in which sometimes looking at the full moon or becoming through a thin layering does lower the light intensity of viewing in which some can view when it bright and full, some can’t in which thin layers of clouds helps to reduce the seen light in viewing the full moon even without any moon filters or with a smaller aperture cap on the telescope..
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SOLAR PHOTOGRAPHY | March 2016……
Early morning March was weathered with clumps of clouds started to roam nomadically across the Auckland morning skies landscape… As during the morning in setting up the scope for solar viewing, with a temporary modifying by removing the finder scope for just in case to stop people of looking through them as a very important precaution.. Then applying the alpha fitter in front of the Telescope then taping with duct tape to seal off any light leakage from the sun entering ..
Using the Mead LX200 eight inch, maneuvering it viewing position in directly to the sun… And finding that ambered disc glow in the light funnel of the telescope in the lens in which you knowing have the sun in view filtered safely then locking in the view….
The interesting parts of the sun, is always the sunspots, there was a few of them across the sun, they’re an interesting anomaly on the sun’s Photo sphere in which the anomaly’s temperature is reduced in compare to the surroundings in due to the concentrations of the magnetic field flux that inhibit convention on the photo sphere….in which looking on that day there was a dozen string of sunspots tracing from the lower hemisphere left to the direction of the equator of the sun in various sizes much larger than the planet Earth….
January’s Jupiter
At the moment Jupiter is over hanging for summer season of summers nights for New Zealand. One interesting thing when looking at the planet is when you look long enough with long hours you’ll get to see it’s four main moons orbiting around the planet Jupiter casting it’s shadow onto the Jupiter’s surface atmosphere. Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Castillo are it’s four Galileo found moons plus there are 60 others.
Jupiter is 317.82 Earth’s mass. It’s averagely 778 412 020 Kilometers away distance away from the Sun, it’s Radius is 71 492 Kilometers making it 11.209 times Earth’s Radius. It’s length of day is 9.925 hours it’s year is 11.87 Earth’s years. It’s Atmospheric Constituents is Hydrogen and Helium.
Photos were take by using the postcard method, using a Meade LX 200, 8 inch, using in between a 20 to 15mm lens, camera wise a Sony Cyber shot DSC-W180, freehand photographing. also using the weather as light fliter as to high attitude mist flittering out light which is to bright to get any details. One nice thing is that I’ve notice the bands are shown neatly.