Did two new portraits for Vaughan Harvey the other day.

And.

Knocked up a design for the MMAC1 championships today.

Variation 1.

Variation 2.

Man this looks so good, and so glad they kept the original star.

Downloaded and ran the benchmark today. System specs are

• Q6600 @ 3.2
• 9800gtx+ @ stock
• 8gb Kingston 8500

I put the settings to max in the benchmark and ran it in DX10 mode.

Settings.

Fixed Benchmark.

Variable.

Video with vsycn enabled.

I’m fairly pleased with the results. The 9800GTX+ Is an outstanding value for money card and still holding its own.

This is my first capture of the sun. Seems really quite of late, no activity at all.

Captured the transit of moon Io tonight with impact site.

EDIT – It appears I captured an asteroid impact, I may have been the first on the planet to see and Image this….

Impact.

Io transit.

So I was mkaing some tea and saw this looking at me.

I’m an intermediate to advanced photoshop user, yet still, editing and getting the best out of astronomy images is still  steep learning curve, but I’m climbing it slowly. I decided to show you some color and mono negative moon images, this process seems to enhance the detail that’s there.

Montage.

Single color.

Single mono.

Another Venus, Seems in the same transition.

Got a really good view of jupe this morning and for the first time achieved focus with the 2x Barlow and psc900nc