Lunar Eclipse 2018 July 28

2nd Lunar eclipse of the year 2018.  This time I went to the rooftop garden accessible from my block.  The sky was covered with clouds around 1 am and near totality as well as the last hour of the eclipse. P900 is good when there is enough lighting. 

Before the onset of eclipse 28/7/2018 01:42 - the moon spotted in  straw color

Shadow coming on 9 - 10 o'clock position

Shadow created a crescent moon look

Expose for the earthshine area

Blood moon

One hour plus 20 minutes of  full eclipse 

Wider angle view shows Mars and the blood red moon in comparison

The white cap formation - about this time waves of clouds came and I ended my monitoring

Mersing March 2018

x8 LF stacked in Sequator 

x1 LF  LRCC4

Dawn coming and MW going to thin out and disappear. 

Reprocessed in Sequator x24 LF  and cropped (vignette) milky way  recovering the dusk lanes

JPG render of CR2 with overexposed sky iso3200,  shutter 30 s  Canon G5x 8.8mm f 1.8.  LP causes overexposure but the details is recoverable in Raw file

Recovering overexposure in LRCC 4 

Processed 

Previous trip to Mersing with better MW?

 Reprocess Kuching Milkyway

X 1 LF  Kuching Milky way

Sequator Stacking of stars

 Stacking with Sequator examples

4 LF was stitched together using foreground trees and hills. Sirius the brightest star right in the middle of the frame.

A + B + C

A ( 0238-0252) 

B (0253-0262)

C (0263-0272)

Milkyway post processing - my Journey

<<< under construction>>>


Take x10 CR2 milky way images  ig0363.cr2 to img0373.cr2

PS  check lonelyspec youtube procedure

DSS

Sequator  

Sprite Lightning and A meteor in Crux

  With Tiangung 1 reentries on April fool day in my mind.... last night i went to Space Track and download the TLE ...

  SPRITE Woke up and find a cloudy sky outside. I glanced at the wall clock ... thinking I should shut the system down instead of the scheduled 7am automatically.   Luckily I didn't stop the gazing ccd /lens much earlier.

    As I strolled through the captured frames through a long list of cloud-filled sky. Then this sprite peak-hold image jumped out at me. There was another clip where only the top 'tentacle' was seen. I bet a group of sprites was exhibiting themselves nearby.  I want a closer look - the 25mm Avenir f 0.95 manual iris lens and Watec 902HUltimage.  The time stamp says 6:32

Sprite caught in 25mm f0.95 lens. Ufocature sw

Partial Sprite seen with a few tentacles

Another Deja Vu  -  As I trained the lens to centre on the Compact southern cross Crux i had the intention of why not getting a meteor flash by the Cross.  ( did this thinking many years ago and i got it too).  Mum took a month holiday so i stick out the lens from this unit.

If they come you will be captured.  A proven bw reliable set up but migrating to  a color mirror-less camera and high video rate system will start as soon as i got some decent sky and meteor streams picking up after April

More for aesthetic than anything else.  Crux or the Southern Cross giving you an idea of the lens FOV too

Humanity Star March 09 2018 flashes images

Humanity Star March 09 2018 Passages through False Cross Vela

    Using Virtual dub to step through the individual flashes.

    First, a combination plot showing the series of flashes of varying brightness as detected by Ufocapture software. I hit the rec button when the time is coming and hit again to stop recording. The peak hold images through the exposure will flag the Humanity Star flashes.

    Humanity star travel upwards from bottom to top within the red lined box

    The followings are individual frames seen from using a VirtualDub slider to step through the individual flash

Humanity Star brighter than delta Vela

HS is ~ as bright than delta vela ( mg 1.95 )

Humanity Star - Flashes by Canopus March 06 2018

Humanity Star 

From heavens-above for my location - Humanity Star ( HS) Mag +5.1 passing close to easily recognisable Canopus on March 06 2018 ~20:24 before entering earth's shadow.  Canopus is visible through my sitting room window.

But there are clouds

Clouds were there and luckily sky cleared and the mag 6 + stars visible

Using Sonotaco UFOcaptureHd software, I hit the button around 20:24:13 and let it records 3 minutes. The resulting peakhold images revealed clearly detected flashing 'dots' per the heavens-above plot.

I tried replay the avi file and managed to detect a flash at 20:24:41. Then after a few attempts managed 2+1 additional flashes.  I also tried stacking the avi using Registax which had no benefit for very short tiny flashes.  THe canon setup didnt see anything as i started the remote release too late.

Canon G5x and Watec 902h2/ Avenir 25mm f0.95

Humanity Star Path 

Screen showing the series of blue dots marking HS flashes

Sonotaco UFOcaptureHd software - Stars trailed except for the brief satellite flashes

Resources : on HS

G5X gave pretty good stellar magnitude too after histogram stretching