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Perijove 46! In only two days NASA's Juno spacecraft will be making it's 46th close science pass of Jupiter. Over the next few days the spacecraft will downlink the new images taken by JunoCam during the pass.
As soon as the new raw images hit the ground I will drop any and all adult responsibilities and fire up the processing pipeline!
This.... is interesting 🤔
Taken by the Mars Curiosity Rover on Sol 3640 (Nov. 2nd)
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
MAHLI images from the Mars Curiosity Rover taken this week on Sol 3641. The first image is a only a couple inches across while the second is much closer, only a few centimeters across. I have color adjusted these for white balancing.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
InSight's Final Selfie
Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Mars InSight
Intriguing ripple features up in front of the Curiosity Rover in these ChemCam and MastCam images taken on Sols 3639 and 3641. No determination yet as to whether its a result of wind or water action....
NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/Kevin M. Gill
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
Just rocks in a late Martian afternoon.
Processed MCZ_LEFT
RMC: 30.1096, Sol: 606
LMST: 16:09:22
UTC: 2022-11-03T12:50:16
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
Some *really* interesting rocks on a small ridge in front of the Curiosity Rover shown both in a combined workspace mosaic (sols 3639 & 3640) and a closer view of one particularly gnarly specimen.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
This is the current setup for doing Hα imaging. ZWO ASI174MM camera, DayStar Quark hydrogen alpha filter, and Tamron 160-600mm lens. I keep the lens at 150mm for full-disk imaging and zoom it in to 600mm when I want to go after a sunspot region or prominence. It's all riding on a Celestron NexStar mount.
Not shown is a laptop running Kubuntu Linux.
I usually take 5,000 luminance frames which I then run through some calibration and stacking software I put together called 'SolHAT.'
The Sun today in hydrogen alpha wavelengths. Processed using inverted chromosphere luminance. A pair of sunspots and a few large prominences made for a really nice view.
(moving) APOD
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