2020 Tuomi Observatory Notes

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Pictures taken with a Canon T5i/700D digital camera, enhanced with Paint Shop Pro

Venus/M45 Venus and M45 (Pleiades)
April 2, 2020
5sec ISO 3200
F/6 80mm Refractor




C\2019 Y4 Comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS)
May 11, 2020
20x60sec ISO 6400
F/5 300mm Newtonian

Comets in 2020

C/2020 F3 Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
July 11, 2020
8 sec ISO 1600
F/2 55mm lens

Comets in 2020

Aurora Aurora with comet C\2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
July 13, 2020
20 sec ISO 1600
F/3.5 18mm lens

Aurora in 2020

Mars Oct 10 Mars closest to earth October 6
Mars at opposition October 13



Mars through its rotation about every 45 degrees or 1/8 turn. Pictures taken from October 3 to November 4, 2020

Mars Oct 15

Pictures taken with a Canon T5i/700D digital camera through a 305mm Orion XT12 Newtonian telescope on a Byers 812 mount, using 10mm eyepiece projection plus a 2x teleconverter. Pictures taken as 90 second MOV videos at 1280x720 size and 60 frames per second at ISO 1600, converted to AVI with PIPP, and stacked and enhanced with RegiStax 6.

Saturn/Jupiter Saturn and Jupiter
December 20, 2020
1/8 sec ISO 1600
F/2 50mm lens

The day before the conjunction of the planets

Saturn/Jupiter Saturn, Jupiter and Moons
December 18, 2020

6 sec ISO 1600
F/10 300mm Newtonian

Photos by Tenho Tuomi, Saskatchewan, Canada
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