Equipment - Powermate 5x
2007
Saturn
19:09 24/3/2007 UTC: Another one from Solar System Meet. While imaging this seeing had gone a bit worse and I did not ... [Read More]
Posidonius
18:46 24/3/2007 UTC: One more images from Solar System Meet. After imaging Theophilus, I looked for next nice target. ... [Read More]
Theophilus
18:28 24/3/2007 UTC: Last weekend was a Solar System Meet in Artjärvi. In the spirit of the happening, I turned m... [Read More]
Saturn
21:42 11/3/2007 UTC: It's been a long time since I had an opportunity to do some real imaging. Weather was nice and wo... [Read More]
2006
Copernicus
20:00 7/5/2006 UTC: We are having constant twilight here already and all sensible imaging targets are moon and bright... [Read More]
Saturn
17:48 13/3/2006 UTC: Quite nice weather. Temperature was just below zero, transparency and seeing was fine. Almost ful... [Read More]
Saturn
19:56 30/1/2006 UTC: This is the closest image of opposition I managed to take. First I thought seeing would have been... [Read More]
Arzachel
19:25 8/1/2006 UTC: One more from the last session. This is a neat looking pair of craters. The image reminds me abou... [Read More]
Plato
19:28 8/1/2006 UTC: I've always wanted to image this very beautiful crater and try to catch the little craterlets in ... [Read More]
Erastosthenes
19:19 8/1/2006 UTC: I was imaging Moon and Mars encounter and noticed quite good seeing so I just had to get the ToUC... [Read More]
2005
Aristarchus
20:28 13/12/2005 UTC: Just managed to take this set of images before the clouds rolled in (again..). Seeing was very go... [Read More]
Mars
18:01 3/12/2005 UTC: After a long cloudy period we had a clear sky. There was some haze, but at least Mars was visible... [Read More]
Phobos and Deimos
19:30 16/11/2005 UTC: I had a bunch of AVI's using different exposures at f6 trying to catch two little moons of Mars. ... [Read More]
Saturn
04:33 19/11/2005 UTC: Finnish November skies are really trying to make it hard time to me. I was planning to image Satu... [Read More]
Mars
18:36 16/11/2005 UTC: This time I have only an RGB image. My IR images was spoiled by some strange artifact. In fact it... [Read More]
Mars
21:40 1/11/2005 UTC: Seeing was bad this time. I saw nothing in the eyepiece. I thought I'd get nothing interesting ou... [Read More]
Mars
21:30 24/10/2005 UTC: Excellent seeing and Mars was high in the sky. Tube had been out for some two or three hours down... [Read More]
Mars
03:53 23/10/2005 UTC: There has been reports of dust storms in Chryse region in Mars. I've been waiting for opportunity... [Read More]
Mars
19:52 18/10/2005 UTC: Seeing was lousy this time. Image stretched and wobbled in visual band, but was still quite OK at... [Read More]
Mars
21:15 12/10/2005 UTC: Well, I think I hit the right button with the color balance. I have the Optimized Non-raw macro i... [Read More]
Saturn
02:53 9/10/2005 UTC: Saturn is back in the morning sky! I woke up to take some first test shots of M42 and found that ... [Read More]
Mars
21:42 4/10/2005 UTC: This time I took all the images at 10fps. It is good to have shorter exposures to overcome fast c... [Read More]
Mars
23:45 24/9/2005 UTC: I tried using extension tube setup earlier this night, but it didn't give satisfactory results, s... [Read More]
Mars
00:52 23/9/2005 UTC: This is another image from 22/23.9 night. I took it only for testing purposes, but it came out qu... [Read More]
Mars
23:53 22/9/2005 UTC: This time I went out late to image Mars higher than previously. My telescope wasn't cooled down w... [Read More]
Mars
22:25 19/9/2005 UTC: It's been a while since my last mars image. Originally I was planning to image it at least once a... [Read More]
Geminus
21:32 19/9/2005 UTC: Here is another crater from the last moon session. This is previously unknown crater to me and I ... [Read More]
Langrenus
21:17 19/9/2005 UTC: Long time since my last moon imaging session. I also got a first opportunity to try powermate on ... [Read More]
Mars
00:24 31/8/2005 UTC: Finally I got an opportunity to image Mars again. I was completely tired while taking this after ... [Read More]
Mars
23:04 17/8/2005 UTC: Here's my latest Mars. Note how the south polar cap has become completely invisible in my image. ... [Read More]
Mars
23:36 3/8/2005 UTC: This morning the seeing was totally different from my previous Mars imaging session. Visually I w... [Read More]
Mars
23:46 28/7/2005 UTC: This is my very first Mars image of the season. Mars was a bit low on the sky and I had terrible ... [Read More]
AR10786
06:01 9/7/2005 UTC: This morning the seeing was seemingly better than yesterday afternoon. I managed to get a fairly ... [Read More]
AR10786
14:05 8/7/2005 UTC: This time I had my batteries fully charged and was ready to do some serious testing with the Powe... [Read More]
AR10786
14:37 7/7/2005 UTC: I got a new toy from mail today, a Televue Powermate. And by some strange reason, it wasn't cloud... [Read More]