Thursday, October 21, 2021

Jupiter and Saturn 2021

These images of Jupiter and Saturn were acquired during September through Oct.1. Seeing where I image in Maryland rarely gets better than 3 of 5. Imaging could likely benefit from more video frames and more precise collimation. A few months ago it dawned on me to use autoguiding to keep target planets centered. I also need better focusing methods than those in SharpCap. I'll be working on these in the coming months.

Jupiter 9/13/2021

Saturn 9/13/2021

Jupiter 9/18/2021

Saturn 9/18/2021

Jupiter 9/19/2021

Jupiter 9/23/2021

Jupiter 9/24/2021

Jupiter 10/1/2021

Saturn 10/1/2021


Wednesday, October 20, 2021

More Lunar Images from May 21, 2021

Images were acquired at Celestron 8 prime focus with a ZWO ASI178MC and averaged from the best 150 of 1000 video frames with Autostakkert!3 Wavelet processing with an unsharp masking script in Paintshop Pro 2021.

Longomontanus

Mayer (top) and Euler(bottom)

Montes Recti

Moretus

Plato

Tycho

Montes Riphaeus