AAPOD2 Image Archives
2018: The great opposition of Mars during a long and massive dust storm around this planet
Image Description and Details :
During summer 2018 the planet Mars was unfortunately covered by a long and massive dust storm. These images was taken since June 10 to September 29, 2018 through a 255mm F20 Maksutov Rumak telescope + IR Blocking filter + Zwo ASI 224MC CMOS camera and Barlow 2x.
Copyright Information: Francesco Badalotti
Sunspots active region and solar granulation
In this mosaic we can see some sunspots active regions and surrounding solar granulation taken before the current low solar activity. Images was taken from Cremona in northern of Italy through a Maksutov Rumak F20 telescope with an F12 focal reducer, Baader Planetarium ASTF280 astrosolar filter and Baader Planetarium Continuum CWL 540nm filter. Cameras used was I.S. DBK41 and Zwo ASI 224MC. Frames stacked with Autostakkert and processed with Wavelets of registax and Photoshop.
Copyright: Francesco Badalotti