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The goals for the two nights were to image Galilean satellite and satellite shadow transits. In the past I would magnify planets with a 2x Barlow but have decide to eschew Barlow in favor of prime focus with shorter exposures and higher frame rate. The planetary critical planetary sampling formula yields a focal length of 2349 mm a bit longer than my Celestron 8's 2030 mm. Considering typical mid Atlantic seeing prime focus is good enough. What follow are images of Jupiter acquired over 90 minutes and 2 hours on the two dates. Unfortunately, on the 8th Jupiter was just beginning to slide behind a nearby tree as the shadow transits took place.
11/8/2022.
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| 19:32:08 |
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| 19:35:43 |
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| 19:54:21 |
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| 20:04:46 |
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Lunar terrain imaged around 11/3/2022 during gibbous moon. Setup: Celestro 8/AVX,ASI178MC. Gain: 200 Exposure: 4.097 ms, Frame count: 5000, Format: 1024x768, SER, Raw16. Post Processing: Stack averaged via Autostackkert!3, color correction and wavelet sharpening in Paintshop Pro 2021.
Capuanus Clavius
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| Copernicus |
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| Goldschmidt |
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| Mercator, Campanus, Kies, Bullialdus |
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| Montes Recti |
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| Montes_Riphaeus, Lansberg, Reinhold |
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| Plato |
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| Plato |
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.
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| Jupiter 9/13/2021 |
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| Saturn 9/13/2021 |
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| Jupiter 9/18/2021 |
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| Saturn 9/18/2021 |
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| Jupiter 9/19/2021 |
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| Jupiter 9/23/2021 |
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| Jupiter 9/24/2021 |
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| Jupiter 10/1/2021 |
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| Saturn 10/1/2021 |
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.
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| Longomontanus |
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| Mayer (top) and Euler(bottom) |
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| Montes Recti |
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| Moretus |
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| Plato |
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| Tycho |
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| Montes Riphaeus |
With a descent moon elevation and average seeing revisited a few lunar favorites. The ASI 178MC was used to acquire 1000 800x600 pixel prime focus video frames at 60 fps. Autostakkert! was used to average the best 15% (150) of frames. Brightness touches and wavelet sharpening were done using simple scripts written by me for Paintshop Pro 2021. For help identifying features recently acquired Virtual Moon Atlas v.7.0 free software was used. In the program features are either labeled or you can click on them to display labels. The date can be set to show the location of the terminator.
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| Clockwise from top Bullialdus, Lubiniezky, and Agatharchides area. |
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| Alphonsus (top) and Ptolomaeus(bottom) |
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| Left to right Archimedes, Autolycus, Aristillus |
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| Bullialdus with A and B above it and Konig above left. |
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| Clockwise from top Capuanus, Mercator, Campanus, Dunthorne, Ramsden. |
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| Clavius with Blancanus to its left. |
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| Copernicus |
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| Crater Eratosthenes |
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| Crater Lambert |
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| Left to right Lansberg, Reinhold with B to the right. |
