Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Jupiter

Averaged with Autostakkert!3 from best 2500 or 5000 subframes from 10000 subframes. Wavelet sharpened with Paintshop Pro 2021.

Jupiter, Io and Great Red Spot
10/05/2023 00:30:44 EDT

Jupiter with GRS and Shadow of Europa
10/2/2023 23:49:33 EDT

10/2/2023 23:54:27

10/2/2023 23:57:40

Thursday, October 12, 2023

Recent Lunar Images 10/03/2023

The following lunar images were taken of the waning gibbous Moon just after midnight. Optical configuration Celestron 8 + diagonal. ASI178MC was camera used at 800x600 RAW16 space at 60fps. Each image was averaged with Autostakkert!3 from the best 2500 of 5000 frames taken. Wavelet sharpening done in Paintshop Pro via script by this writer. In the future 800x600 RAW8 will be tested for a higher frame rate. 

Cauchy, Lawrence, Da Vinci craters area.

Cyrillus and Theophilus craters.

Fracastorius crater area

Hercules & Atlas craters

Hommel crater area

Janssen crater area

Leaky crater area

Lyell & Franz craters area

Miraldi crater area

Montes & Pyrenaeus craters area

Moretus crater area

Posidonius crater area

Piccolomini crater area

Tarantius & Zahringer

Vitruvius & Gardner craters

Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Jupiter with Callisto and Saturn

Jupiter with satellite Callisto and Saturn imaged on 10/3/2023. Averaged from best 2500 or 5000 subframes of 10000 subframes with Autostakkert!3.  Post processing including wavelet sharpening with Paintshop Pro 2021. 

10:56:26


10:58:47

11:10:26

11:16:14

11:21:25

11:28:44

Saturn 22:35:59