A couple of nights with above average seeing allowed me to acquire these two images of Mars. These are about a month past this years very favorable opposition so I'm pretty pleased with the results. Camera used: ASI178MC with Meade 2X Barlow and Celestron 8/AVX. Each image was stacked and wavelet sharpened from the best 20% of 3000 frames acquired at 60 fps. Frame size was 1024x768. Each image is labeled with date and time.
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| Mars.11072020.21_55_01 |
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| Mars.11102020.21_46_49 |
The following are several images of Jupiter acquired in October and the beginning of November. ASI178MC was used to acquire 2000 frames at 60 fps at a capture area of 1024x768. A Meade 2X Barlow was used to magnify the image. The best 20% of frames were stacked and averaged using Autostakkert! and wavelet sharpened in Paintshop Pro 2021 using unsharp masking scripts written by the author. Jupiter's low altitude and mediocre early evening Northeast seeing have made imaging Jupiter a real challenge.
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| Jupiter.11042020.17_30_02 |
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| .Jupiter.10312020.18_45_56 |
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| Jupiter.10232020.19_15_17 |
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| Jupiter.10062020.19_42_30 |
These older closeup images of luner craters were taken using the Celestron NexImager 5 coupled with a Meade 2X Barlow
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| Cleomedes |
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| Langrenus |
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| Petavius |
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| Vendelinus |
