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Jupiter and Mars on Sept 26
Images of Jupiter and Mars from early this morning. I was playing with the hyperstar until midnight so I didn’t do Saturn. Clear, temps in 60s around one; down to the 50s in twilight hours. Seeing was about 5/10, it improved somewhat nearer to sunrise. Same setup C14Edge UV/IR cut filter, Zwo ADC and Zwo…
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Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars Sept 18-19
Turbulence was about average for this area last night say 5/10. Images aquired with C14EdgeHD, Zwo ADC, Zwo ASI 462MC camera. Thin clouds caused problems imaging Saturn 50 msec exposure, gain 300, 2 minute capture. Jupiter at 11:13 pm was in clear sky. 6.5 msec exposure, gain 158, 2 min capture, 143 fps. Mars on…
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Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars on Sept 5-6
Turbulence last evening was good, 6/10 ; sky most clear but occasional thin clouds. Equipment: C14 EdgeHD, Zwo ADC and ASI 462 camera,. Aligned and stacked with AutoStakkert! 3.14, wavelet sharpened with Registax 6, resized, color balanced, and denoised with Photoshop 23.5. Saturn on Sept. 5 at 10:58 pm. Two minute capture, Gain 309, Exposure…
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Jupiter on July 30
I was lured into the backyard by the somewhat clear skies last night. High humidity made the effort wet and miserable; dew covered everything. Saturn was in the clouds most of the time but I got a few shots. Found that there were bad dust motes so that effort was for naught. Jupiter was in…
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Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars on July 9-10
I’m still struggling getting a reasonable work flow with the new equipment, I’m unnecessary wasting lots of time. Even so here is Saturn at 4:13 am this morning. Mostly clear, transparency very good, turbulence fair, 5/10, temperature 70F. Equipment: Mx+ mount, C14 Edge, Zwo ASI 462MC camera, approx. 100 fps, 2 min capture. Aligned and…
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Jupiter on May 27
Below is my first image of Jupiter this year. At the bottom near the pole is the shadow from Jupiter’s moon Callisto. Equipment used was an Mx+ mount, EdgeHD 1400, Zwo ADC set at 0 (ran out of time to adjust), and a Zwo ASI 462MC planetary camera. Shot through thin clouds, turbulence 4 of…
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Jupiter on Sept 21
Jupiter, GRS, and Europa (to left of Jupiter) from last evening. Usual setup Celestron Nexstar11 and Zwo ASI-224MC camera. Mostly clear, no wind, turbence about 5/10.
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Jupiter and Saturn on Sept 4
Saturn at 9:32 pm. Usual setup Celestron Nexstar11, Televue 2x Barlow, Zwo ASI224-mc camera. Aligned and stacked with AstroStakkert3, wavelet sharpened with Registax6. Color and brightness adjusted and resized with PhotoShop. Some haze, a few clouds; temperature in low 70s; fair seeing about 5/10 but deteriorated. I stopped about 10:15 as turbulence became poor. Jupiter…