Jupiter Oct 8th 1st light ASI224MC

[Space Cowboy]

First attempt at Jupiter with my new ASI224MC and as usual cloud tormented me until almost full daylight!

Here is an image taken after 7am. Obviously not great shakes yet but the cam is incredible for its ultra low noise and high sensitivity.

Auto Dob + 3x tv barlow :

20% gain @105 fps :

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Very nice. Did you try any wavelet sharpening? I would guess there is more detail you could tease out of that image

[mitchelln]

Looks promising! Well done. Good image scale. Can't wait to try my new ASI224MC on Jupiter as well, too early in the morning for me though!

[JamesF]

Well, it's clearly Jupiter   You're looking through a lot of atmosphere at the moment, too.  I'm not surprised it's hard work getting anything decent.

James

[Space Cowboy]

Oh yes I used my normal wavelet settings Michael. Focusing was rushed as the sun was rising fast.

[laudropb]

Nice image given the conditions. Thanks for posting.

[Grotemobile]

Hi Stuart .U have done well there.

Cannot see Jupiter, yet from where

I live. Looking @ buying this Camera

next.

http://www.firstlightoptics.com/celestron-skyris/celestron-skyris-236-astroimaging-camera.html

 Made for planet​y imaging. Has got small pixels,

so  should give a large image.

​

Steve​.

[SnakeyJ]

Great start Stuart, can't wait to start capturing some Jupiter myself.

[Space Cowboy]

That camera looks nice Steve but if I were you i'd be getting the ASI224MC which is half the price if ordered direct from ZWO and has no equals sensitivity wise in the planetary section. If you want a larger fov the ASI174 cams are very good for the same price as the celestron skyris.

Cheers Jake I reckon this cam will knock out great Jupiter images in just 30 secs of data. The noise is so low its mind blowing!

[Space Cowboy]

Last one I took at nearly 7.30am in broad daylight. Tough getting colour balance right when the sky is blue.

[Grotemobile]

Hi Stuart. Was this working in USB 3 mode.

How many frames did U get. I presume it was

working in mono mode. Very interesting. A

good picture for day light.

Steve.

[si@nite]

Great start with the new cam Stuart very encouraging early result!

[Space Cowboy]

Yes USB 3 Steve and captured in raw mode debayered in as!2. First image was best 25% from 7000 (cloud cut avi short) 2nd image from 2 min avi of about 13000 frames.

I did try stacking just 100 frames and the noise was not too bad so I think that's possible if seeing is really poor with this cam. Imagine taking 10-20000 frames and being able to stack just 1% !

Cheers Simon! Might try again in the morning!

[SnakeyJ]

Just ordered my 224 direct from ZWO, but will setup tomorrow in case the cloud obliges. I did the recce this morning and have the angles after 0530, so may get a last few runs in with th qhy5l-iim :-)

[MarsG76]

not a bad jupiter this time of the year... I agree that some wavelet tweaks would bring out a bit more detail but nice nonetheless.

[Tim99]

Nice! I am looking into purchasing the ASI224MC.  I've seen a lot of great results.