Venus / Jupiter 05:33
05:35
05:46
05:48
Conjunction dry run
Venus / Jupiter conjunction
Star Trails – (No Perseids)
Moon / Mars conjunction
Moon – Mars conjunction
Mars is just above and slightly to the right of the Moon. It is very faint. Mars will be easier to see if you click on the picture and get the full size version.
M82 / SN 2014j wide field
M82-SN 2014j zoom
Ken says:
“There is a faint spot to the left of the red cloud and in line with the curve of the three stars to the lower left. That spot was not in my photos previous to Jan 2014, and it is in the same spot as the supernova. The supernova was as bright and large as the closest star. This seems to be he reduction in brightness that is expected in four months.”
M82 With Super Nova
Bob indicated the supernova with some lines that are just visible above and slightly right of the galactic center.
Ken was out of town during this eclipse and as such was not totally clouded out as the panhandle was. These were taken at 0230 with partial cloud cover just before more serious clouds moved in. The first image was taken by holding the camera on top of tripod mounted binoculars, the other two were taken through the binoculars. Notice Mars in the upper right corner of the first image.
Computer zoom
Active regions 1967 & 1968
When a sunspot rotates into view it is assigned a number, even if the sunspot already had a number assigned to it on a previous rotation. Sunspot ARs 1967 and 1968 were numbered 1944 and 1946 the last time around. See the 8 Jan 2014 image.