Sun and Moon	Date	Time	Location	Equipment Used	Exposure Details	Description of Image(s)	Link to image(s)	Notes
Sunrise, Sunset Azimuth Positions
Sun: Solar Eclipse	4/8/2024	late morning	Mena, AR	8" f/6 Newtonian. Eyepiece projection. 32x. Cell Phone attached with cell phone holder attaached to the eyepiece.	Regular picture speed	Pictures I took of April 8, 2024 Total Solar Eclipse	TotalSolarEclipse_040824\AllSunPics_Apr_8_2024.html
Sun: Sunspots	3/29/2026	12:59	Broomfield, CO	SeeStar S50	30 sec movie at 1x	Stacked and sharpened with AutoStakkert. Enhanced contrast with Siril.	2026-03-29-125853-Solar-Image.tif
Moon: Maria	3/2/2026	20:33	Broomfield, CO	SeeStar S50	30 sec movie at 2x	Stacked and sharpened with AutoStakkert. Combined with Microsoft ICE. Enhanced contrast with Siril.	Maria.jpg	They have creaters in the basalt.
Moon: Highlands	3/2/2026	20:33	Broomfield, CO	SeeStar S50	30 sec movie at 2x	Stacked and sharpened with AutoStakkert. Combined with Microsoft ICE. Enhanced contrast with Siril.	Highlands.jpg	The highlands are much older than the maria because of all the cratering that has occurred in the highlands. There are less craters in the maria because the lava filled in these areas after the highlands craters were formed.
Moon: Crater Ages	3/24/2026	21:29	Broomfield, CO	SeeStar S50	30 sec movie at 2x	Stacked and sharpened with AutoStakkert. Enhanced contrast with Siril.	Theophilus-Cyrillus.jpg	This is a 5 day old moon. Cyrillus is older than Theoplilus because the entire circle of the crater Theoplilus is on top of the upper right part of Cyrillius's crater ring. Cyrillus was made before Theoplilus.
Moon: Scarps	1/27/2026	18:37	Broomfield, CO	SeeStar S50	30 sec movie at 2x	Stacked and sharpened with AutoStakkert. Combined with Microsoft ICE. Enhanced contrast with Siril.	Rupes Recta.jpg	Birt is 11 units in diameter. The Straight Wall is 68 units in length, or 6.2 times as long as Birt is wide. 17 km*6.2=105.4 km
Moon: Occultations
Moon Lunar Eclipse
Inner Solar System	Date	Time	Location	Equipment Used	Exposure Details	Description of Image(s)	Link to image(s)
Mercury Location Morning Sky	7/31/2026	5:15	Broomfield, CO	SeeStar S50	30 sec movie at 2x. Gain 150. Exposure 100.	Stacked with AutoStakkert.	Mercury\2026-07-31-051517-Mercury.jpg
Mercury Location Evening Sky	8/1/2026	19:04	Broomfield, CO	SeeStar S50	Image at 2x. Gain 1. Exposure 0.	Mercury was just a couple of degrees above my southwestern horizon. The video I took and used AstroStakkert didn't look as well as this single image.	Mercury\2026-10-01-190425-Mercury.jpg
Venus: Low Power Crescent	9/26/2026	19:20	Broomfield, CO	SeeStar S50	15 sec movie at 2x. Gain lowest. Exposure 100.	Stacked with AutoStakkert.	Venus_Crescent.jpg
Venus: Low Power Crescent (Even thinner)	10/1/2026	18:47	Broomfield, CO	SeeStar S50	Image at 2x. Gain 1. Exposure 0.	Venus was just a couple of degrees above my southwestern horizon. The video I took and used AstroStakkert didn't look as well as this single image.	VenusPhases\2026-10-01-184645-Venus.jpg
Venus: Daytime Observation	3/20/2026	10:54	Berthoud, CO	6" f/9 refractor	Samsung S22 Android Phone with eyepiece holder over a 22mm 2" eyepiece at 62x.		20260320_105403 - DaytimeVenus.jpg	It is cool to see bright objects, liker Venus, in the daytime.
Venus: Phases	See Webpage	See Webpage	Broomfield, CO	SeeStar S50	See Webpage	Stacked with AutoStakkert.	VenusPhases\VenusPhases.htm
Mars: Albedo Features
Mars: Retrograde Motion
Ceres Locating	See PDF	See PDF	Broomfield, CO	SeeStar S50	See PDF	See PDF	Ceres_Locating.pdf
Asteroids: Course Plotting	See PDF	See PDF	Broomfield, CO	SeeStar S50	See PDF	See PDF	Pallas_Course.pdf
Asteroids: Measuring their Movement	9/28/2026	12:23					Pallas_Calculations.jpg
Comet Observing	3/30/1997	20:12	Broomfield, CO	Pentax Camera, Color Film	Short 1 min-50mm lens	Image of Comet Hale-Bopp	Comet-Hale-Bopp.jpg
Outer Solar System	Date	Time	Location	Equipment Used	Exposure Details	Description of Image(s)	Link to image(s)
Jupiter: Great Red Spot	4/20/26	22:58	Berthod, CO	18" f/14.2 Cass-171x eyepiece	Low ISO, short exposure in milliseconds	I did eyepiece projection to my S22 Android phone. Took a 45 sec exposure. Processed with MP4 to AVI converter. PIPP. AutoStakkert! Siril to enhance contrast.	Jupiter_GRS.jpg
Jupiter: Galilean Satellites	4/2-7/2026		My Backyard, Broomfield, CO	SeeStar S50	100 msec exposure with gain at 150. 2x magnification.		JupiterGalileanSatellites.pdf
Jupiter: The Cloud Belts	4/12/26	20:06	My Backyard, Broomfield, CO	8" f/6 Newtonian	Samsung S22 Android Phone with eyepiece holder over a 6mm eyepiece at 203x.	Adjusted camera gain very low and exposure speed 1/60	JupiterBands.jpg	JupiterBands - Ann.jpg
Jupiter: Satellite Discovery	4/2-6/2026		My Backyard, Broomfield, CO	SeeStar S50	100 msec exposure with gain at 150.		JupiterSatelliteDiscovery.pdf	This is what Jupiter and the 4 larger moons would look like with a 20x binoculars.
Jupiter: Satellite Shadow Transits
Jupiter: Satellite Transits
Jupiter: Satellite Eclipses	12/29/73	18:47	On the roof of the Physics Building on the Univ. of Iowa campas in Iowa City, IA	16" Cassegrain prime focus. I used my Pentax Camera body using Tri-X 400 ASA B&W film.	Short exposures of Jupiter.	I used my Pentax camera to take pictures of Ganymede being eclipsed by the shadow of Io. I made a contact sheet of the negatives on photographic paper that was developed and printed in my own darkroom, in the basement of the house I grew up in.	MoonEvent-1.jpg	Ganymede is the second moon to the right of Jupiter's disk. Io is the first moon.
Jupiter: Satellite Occultation	4/4/26	20:30	My Backyard, Broomfield, CO	SeeStar S50	100 msec exposure with gain at 150. 2x magnification.		JupiterOccultation.pdf
Saturn: The Rings
Saturn: The Cassini Division	12/29/73	19:45	Iowa City, IA	16" Cassegrain prime focus. I used my Pentax Camera body using Tri-X 400 ASA B&W film.	Short exposure of Saturn	I used my Pentax camera to take this picture of Saturn showing Cassini's Division. I developed the negatives myself and printed this image in my own darkroom, in the basement of the house I grew up in.	Saturn-CassiniDivision.jpg
Saturn: Disk Markings
Saturn: The Satellites	9/4/2026	0:39	My Backyard, Broomfield, CO	SeeStar S50	750 msec exposure with gain at 400.		Saturn Moons.pdf
Uranus locating	1/26/26	19:00 LT	My Backyard, Broomfield, CO	SeeStar S50	1 min stacked, Siril Processed		Uranus.jpg	The size of Uranus's disk is much larger than Neptune's size. I was surprised that Uranus didn't show a greenish color.
Neptune Locating	1/26/26	19:04 LT	My Backyard, Broomfield, CO	SeeStar S50	1 min stacked, Siril Processed		Neptune.jpg	The size of Neptune's disk is much smaller than Uranus's size. I was surprised that Neptune didn't show a blueish color.
Pluto Locating	8/1/26	1 day	Broomfield, CO	SeeStar S50	15 min stacked, Siril Processed		Pluto\PlutoLocating.html
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