DBushell

Thanks for the great images, when timing permits I think I shall upgrade to a 200P on the eq5. I take it the mount is upgradable for motors, polar scope etc?

PS I tried the search function but it kept bringing up peoples signatures I think and some images but not enough to quench my needs.....

I'm considering buying the aforementioned telescope to replace my okay, but not enough aperture starter scope. I currently image with my 130 Astromaster but I'm looking to see your best Skywatcher 200p images of the planets to help me make my mind up that a new scope should be part of my New Years Resolution!

Show me your best 200p images :-)

Thanks in advance!

Whatever way you did it it still looks great! It's nice to see the results other people can get with the same scope as me

It's not a bad scope really, I never expected to be able to do anything like that when I bought it. It's great to be able to show people with similar scopes what is possible. I can't wait to get started on Saturn and am using Jupiter as a guinea pig to practice on. I'm not expecting great detail, but any detail I do get makes me a happy bunny.

Effectively you got it in one, http://www.astronomi...features-2.html

Actually on looking at the AVI I haven't drizzled that second smaller shot..... perhaps it's something to do with the distance from the camera to the barlow? Who knows!

I would guess processing with drizzling and then cropping

I use registax to drizzle the image (whatever that means?!!) which appears to increase the size, and I use Castrator to crop and centre the planet.

The big downside about stacking 2 2x barlows to get 4x is that focusing is tricky to say the least, and manually tracking is incredibly intensive as the planet moves so quickly across the screen!! However, it is possible to get half decent results from our little scope :-) I'm sure I can get some more detail....just need some more practice when the rain has gone.

Thanks, will try to get the focus right :-)

Here's another from the same night using only 1 2x barlow. I'm gradually getting the hang of it I think, although this is slightly over processed.....

Using my basic Astromaster 130EQ tracking manually with two 2x barlow and an SPC900 camera.