[videoguy]

Hi all..

It's been a while since I've managed to see what's been going down at Ice in Space. Clearly a lot has been happening on the site.
Very sad news of Erwin - really makes one ponder on the important things in life and how we live it. To ease the down-in-the-mouth feeling such news can engender I decided to pull my finger out after a long drought an do some observing / imaging.

So last night, although the seeing was pretty average from coastal Sydney but somewhat better in the earlier hours, I managed to put together a composite image of Uranus and its moons. The image is a composite of stacked long exposures to record the moons then subtracting out the overexposed Uranus and overlaying it with short exposure RGB images of the planets disc to scale. Clockwise from near 12 o'clock position are Ariel, Umbriel,Titania and Oberon.

Later had a go at Mars but the seeing was starting to suffer somewhat. It's amazing how small the the SPC is and clearly there is a nice northern polar haze present.

Anyone else imaging Uranus or Neptune at this opportune time?