My Celebrity Look-Alikes

Hello Everyone!

Happy New Year To All! May we have a prosperous year ahead! Last but not the least, more clear skies than 2008 !!!

Anyway, I come upon a nice webpage in My Heritage page which can show whom among the world celebrities does resemble your facial appearance and after posting my pic, below is what it came out :) LOL Enjoy!!!

Solar Imaging Session - December 27, 2008

Hello:

After a long spell of no solar imaging because if bad weather, I was blessed with a relatively sunny sky this morning and I didn't waste time to observe the Sun and was able to see several large eruptive prominences! Images were taken using ATK-1HS II webcam on Coronado PST-Ha and 2x barlow lens. Seeing was fair that morning at 1/5.

December 1, 2008 Moon, Venus & Jupiter Conjunction

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The Trio conjunction of the Crescent Moon together with close planetary pair Venus and Jupiter pose a very good opportunity for astrophotographers to image them after sunset. I was able to image the conjunction but one of my images that Im sharing shows a "Witch Head" like cloud with the Moon acting as her Chin Ring while Venus (left) acts as a light reflection of Jupiter (right) on her left eye :) LOL Image was taken using a compact Canon 650IS digital camera at 210mm f/4.8 at ISO400. Exposure was 2 secs.

Solar Imaging Session - November 18, 2008

Seeing this morning is ok with some blue skies and less clouds than previous days. The Sun was again a bit quiet after AR 1008 Sunspot Group had exited the western limb. Lots of small prominences are visible in the solar limb but a nice grouping of prominences stands out from the rest so I took an image of it on fair seeing condition.

Solar Imaging Session - November 16, 2008

Hello:

I wake up late today so my observation window is limited to the point that I can only image the Sun in less than 15 minutes before it gets obstructed :( Nevertheless, I was able to capture a nice bar prominence but unfortunately, I missed imaging AR1008 sunspot group as by the time Im set to image it, it got obstructed already :( Below is the image of the prominence.


Before lunchtime, I got another chance to image the Sun but this time around, I opted to test the William Optics WCL-52 digicam lens I got in conjunction with my Canon 650IS to image afocally with TV-101 refractor. With that setup, it will give me an effective focal length of 1500m f/15. Unfortunately, clouds rolled up as fast as I setup again, but I got to image the whole disk before getting clouded up. Not that sharp as I got no time to finely focus though :(

Solar Imaging Session - November 14, 2008 (AR1008 Sunspot Group)

Hello:

With much expectation from yesterday solar session, I again waited this morning to image the AR1008 Group again. Seeing was surprising good for a short while when I was imaging it. But seeing didn' t stay long for me to continue shooting the Sun i good detail. Nevertheless, below are images that I took of AR1008 this morning. Some nice eruptive prominences can also be seen together in the same frame with the sunspot group.

Solar Imaging Session - November 13, 2008

Hello:

This morning, although a bit hazy, I try to image the Sun as I read from Spaceweather.com that AR 1008 Sunspot Group is visible and so I waited till the breaks of the clouds for me to image it. From Ha view, the main sunspot group of AR1008 is clearly visible. Aside from the group, I was also able to image a very faint large eruptive prominence that was faintly visible but really large. Another smaller eruptive prominence is also visible in the limb.

I was planning to image the AR1008 through white light but unfortunately, clouds cover the Sun and thus, I wasn't able to test my new William Optics DCL-52 digital lens with my Canon 650IS digicam on TV-101 refractor :( Hopefully tomorrow I would be able to do that before the group exits the western limb.