Heads UP! for August 2017

As you may have heard, there is an all-American eclipse on Monday the 21st of this month. For those of you watching here in the New York City Metro area, the Moon will cover 71 percent of the Sun, most at 2:44pmEDT when the sun is 53 degrees above the horizon. The first nibble will …

JUNO images the Great Red Spot…

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Cumbrian Sky

If you felt a disturbance in the Force on Wednesday night it’s because the first images JUNO took of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot were released at teatime on that day, a couple of days earlier than expected, and both the astronomy media and the world’s “image processors” went into a feeding frenzy. (I couldn’t because I was stuck at work, but I was able to sneak a look at the images on my phone during my break). The original images are very pretty but quite muted and low contrast, so since they have been released the processors have been working hard to bring out detail, boost contrast and enhance the features around and within the Spot, using a variety of image processing techniques. Some of the results are eye-wateringly dramatic, psychedelic explosions of vivid colour. Others less so. None are “right”, none are “wrong”, they’re all just someone’s personal…

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