Jupiter 11/9/22

In this series of images Europa followed by Ganymede transit. You can just begin to see a a dark light pattern on Ganymede's surface. Following the two satellites is the shadow of Europa. Times in DST label each image. Io emerges from Jupiter's shadow late in the sequence.

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Jupiter 11/8 and 11/9 2022

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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Early November 2022 Lunar Images

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

Copernicus

Goldschmidt

Mercator, Campanus, Kies, Bullialdus

Montes Recti

Montes_Riphaeus, Lansberg, Reinhold

Plato

Plato

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

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