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Yeah, I read some of the AAVSO pages on this. Sounds like they are not in a hurry to provide FITS files – which is kind of weird given how its a trivial bit of coding. A doddle in C and trivial in Python.
Sounded like the way the Citizen Science is done is taking observations and sending them to someone else who does the data reduction… Sounds a bit dull to me. Data reduction is what cloudy nights are for.
Some mention of the code being open sources and then of release of an API, but nothing yet – and promises are cheap of course.
Thanks for the headsup. Your observation really does suggest we all need to keep a close eye on it in the months ahead.
Hi David,
I think that V shape and the right hand wing (on your image) feature have been faintly visible on some unfiltered images since the summer.
Such as here:
https://britastro.org/observations/observation.php?id=20221129_230438_ac6a218c4ac94ed0
and
https://britastro.org/observations/observation.php?id=20221129_230930_656c96e63f3df518Was it absent in your similarly exposed Rc filtered images from earlier in the year? The nebula is heavily reddened, so you might well see changes before those of us working unfiltered noticed them.
Do you still measure the nebulosity brightness at all? What does that curve say?
Would be nice for this or McNeil’s to reappear at last. Looked at Thomme’s last night and can’t see much change since I started looking at it and McNeil’s is absent with V1647 Orionis in the 19.5-20.5 mag range when skies are clear enough to detect it.
Happy Solstice!
Grant
From Wiltshire, at 0630 the Sun is about 8.3 degrees below the horizon. TheSkyX still shows 1st and 2nd mag stars visible at that time, but I don’t know how accurate that is.
I think this guarantees cloudy nights for a week…
You probably need to add dancers, a 120bpm backing track, some dry ice, lasers, a conspiracy theory and someone being humiliated to keep social media fans tuned in.
Seems to be working. Looks like thin cloud presently.
There are a couple of small dust patches – as you said – but nothing thats going to detract from a good chunk of the Sun being obscured…
It was fun to watch and some of those observing from the ground did quite well too…
https://twitter.com/fallingstarIfA/status/1574583529731670021?s=20&t=bSNlZJgGJmZCFPEEcFqEvA
3 tonnes of TNT appears to have made a pretty impressive cloud of debris.
Yep. Dangerous talk as it disagreed with Aristotle AND Scripture!
Galileo got house arrest for more than a decade and banned from publishing…
At -27 theres not much hope from home for me then as my dome blocks everything below -10 and a nearby hill blocks everything below -15.
Damn.
After seeing the pictures from Giovanni, I dug out an old picture….
https://britastro.org/observations/observation.php?id=20220818_202738_4a8c0021466584a7
Ah, excellent. I looked and they appear to have a place holder object name in place, so it looks hopeful.
It could be a lot of fun. It looks like it will be taking a while to get there.
Lovely images. The Belt of Venus is rather beautiful.
I only see it occasionally in the UK. Does it require particularly transparent skies to appear?
On 25minutes worth of frames I am seeing something very dim and (on my frame) at the 7 o’clock position from the 15.7 mag star, but that seems slightly out of position compared to the AAVSO chart. Is that it?
Gary,
I’m on target now and not seeing it – unless its very, very close to the 15.7 star and the two appear merged.
Could it have faded already?
Grant
EDIT: Image attached. Pixel=1.54″ so field ~25arc min wide.
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