Jarvo

Excellent work. Well done. 

Helloooo. Couple from the 22nd. The sharp eyed amongst you may noticed they are not to scale...

C9.25, 2.5 x Powermate, Imaging Source Camera

Thanks for looking.

Jarvo

Data taken from 8th. Only 5 frames to test the theory. Fairly chuffed

***Update*** Didn't tick the amination box

Usual kit, C9.25, 2 x Apo Barlow, processed in PIPP, Registax and Levels tweaked and gif generated using Gimp.

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Jarvo

Evening All - token Saturn from last night. Too low from my observatory really. But I love Saturn  

C9.25, 2 x apo barlow

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Jarvo

Evening All - not bad last night. Happy with the results. 

C9.25, 2 x apo barlow

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Jarvo

Looking at others comment last night was probably not the best cnditions butheres my Jupiter with the c9.25 pls 2 x apo

It was like looking through a washing machine.

Anyway best I could do with the 9.25plus 2x apo

Thanks for looking

Steve

Cheers Neil. Appreciate the steer. 
 

****Updated****

A thousand thank yous to that lovely Mr Neil Phillips from this forum for giving me a perfect steer on processing.

And its taken me all this time to remember how to do this stuff.....and I lost all my data somewhere between packing up last night and now. Managed to find one full .SER in the trash bin but 6 others lost forever.

Anyway, Jupiter is now high enough over the lip on the observatory to let loose the full 9.25 inches of glory of my beloved Celestron SCT.

Still getting the sickly orange glow on the QHY290 IIIC and I've tried all sorts. 

Fair bit of detail though so pretty pleased (actually now very happy) with the results. 

Great Red Spot (I planned that all by myself) and the Moons are left to right Ganymede, Io is transiting and it looks like it is casting its shadow too and Europa last (Hope I've interpreted Sky & Telescopes Jovian Moon Tools correctly  ) *Couple of spots and a barge visible now  

Other bits of info. 2 x Apo Barlow, processed in PIPP then in Registax 5000 frames stacked, RGB Alignment and a tweak of the Wavelets. Finally subtle adjustments in Gimp.

Thanks for looking

Steve

Getting the hang of Winjupos

C9.25, no amplification QHIII 290c 

Tweaked in Gimp.

Thx

Looked pretty steady tonight with a bit of high cloud.

Pretty pleased with these considering the c9.25 is compromised by the lip of the observatory

2 x apo barlow plus QHY3 - 290c

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Messing about with Winjupos on a rainy day...  

10 x 2 x minute ser files 25000/35000 files 

C9.25 2.5 x TV amplifier Qhy111- 290c

**Update** Stitched 2 AVIs together in PIPP and processed 3500 frames out of 4000.  

Jupiter is still a bit low but I gave it my best  shot

Couldn't resist capturing Saturn even thought the observatory had stopped the aperture down 66%

c9.25, no ir, QHYIII 290C 1000/2000 Frames. Tweaked in GIMP

None whatsoever I find. Although every single tutorial or magazine article extols the virtue of these filters. 
Even less now considering the altitude of Jupiter and Saturn. 
Queue the backlash……

Insane. Even by your already high standards Astroavani. 

Can you post some bad images to give the rest of us some hope 😂

Seriously, great work. 

Low in the sky. Aperture chopped down 50% due to the lip of the observatory, seeing was  bad. Can't think of anymore excuses....oh yeah have done this for a while.

C9.25, barlow, QHY Cam

Jarvo

Yep. You’ve managed it. Nice one. 

Best yet 

15 minutes ago, rnobleeddy said:

I'm not aware that's possible to damage a camera with overexposure. It's a very common thing to do.

Try a different PC/different cable. If there's no change in what you see on the screen when you move the camera from a dark to a light place then it doesn't sound good, but I'm not familiar with QHY cameras.

Don’t think it’s the cable as I tried an old DBK camera which looked ok

Thanks for the replies you two. 
 

Fozzybear - usual sound made. I’ll take a look at the driver and uninstall /reinstall. 
 

fingers crossed

My QHY5III290C has stopped working. I was imaging Mars then slewed over over to the Moon and it stopped working. I fear I may have blown the chip by moving straight to the Moon without reducing exposure.

Is it possible to damage the sensor this way? Can I reset the chip or camera? If so how would I do that?

Further information: When you plug the camera into the laptop, the laptop makes a noise to recognise the new device but the field of view is just grey with a line down the centre

It feels like my options are:

1) Reset the chip / camera if its possible;
2) Arrange for it to be looked at and fixed; or
3) Scrap it and buy a new camera - don’t really want to do this as I love my camera

Hoping someone has some ideas. Thanks for looking. 
 

Steve

You will not be disappointed my friend. I got one for the Mars season. Epic scope. 
 

enjoy. 

I wasn’t planning on going out tonight but the skies cleared so I took the Travelscope outside along with a low power eyepiece (32mm) for a quick look. 

After realising the 32mm was woefully low on power I ran back in and got a medium power (13mm) Nagler so I could actually see something. 

That was just enough to make Saturn’s rings clear, though tiny, and Jupiter’s Moons nice and bright  

I'm not sure I’ll be able to set something up over the next few days (weather, work, position in sky is so low) but I took a snap with an iPhone in case I miss the big event on the 21st (Weather forecast for Leeds looks 🤬on that day. )

This is a single frame from a video. I will sit at the Mac tomorrow to see if I can prise any more detail out but it’s a start.

But let’s see.  Things can only get better. Thanks for looking 🪐

Only managed 2 files last night. This is the second one. Rind and all. 

Heavily cropped and I've taken the liberty of reddening to my own preference (How dare he  )

C9.25,  2 x Apo Barlow and a very poorly QHY5III-290c.

Thanks for looking.

Steve

Ok brief update. So there is a whole raft of stuff on this rind effect on this forum and it kinda looks like it’s an optical aberration unresolvable by the looks of things. 
 

I’ve got another .ser from tonight which I’ll look at tomorrow and see if there is any difference