CraigT82

The Alpkit head torches are great, good bang for you buck.

Very nice shots, this latest generation of cameras are a real game changer

Ah I’m sure it’ll be fine to repeat what’s said on CN or even post links to it… just include an advisory warning that CN is a wilderness and should be navigated with care! 😂

Please post in this thread… I’m sure lots on here would be interested in a new Registax!

Very nice, I like that a lot. Great resolution from the (relatively) little mak.

That’s a beauty Neil, expertly processed… really well done 👍🏼

Very nice image 👍🏼

Those are fabulous captures, the subtle colour really brings them to life. As for sheer resolution I think you could still do better with the 8” newt. What is your sampling rate? My best detail from the same class of scope (well, an 8.5” newt) is below and I think you could get close to this with your 8” in excellent seeing and correct sampling.

Depends on what you’re using it for, but for general deep sky work I would use a UV/IR cut (I.e any luminance filter).

Just need and OpenAstro tripod and pillar extension to go with it

QHY now getting in on the 585 game… They’re also bringing out the QHY5iii200m which is highly sensitive in the UV and NIR (will be a great Venus imaging camera).

Really nice capture Geof, nicely processed

What a unique mount, Looks like it is driven via long belts around the two large round plates? What is the need for the tall ‘rats cage’ pillar? That looks like it might be a weak spot.

Lovely image. Hellas basin stands out like a sore thumb, don’t remember it being that colour last time. Maybe the recent storm deposited a load of fresh sand there.

Nice shot, lots of detail and definitely got potential. Seems like focus might have been off a tad? Maybe just seeing.

Nice! Your C8 is kicking backside

Nice shot, there’s a few ways to deal with the edge rind. Martin Lewis has done some fairly comprehensive work on what it is and how to get rid of it: https://skyinspector.co.uk/mars-edge-artefact/

Nice image there m, shows even in poor conditions it’s worth going out. I’d be tempted to boost the saturation little to give it some zip

Thanks! I’m not going to pretend I understood much of that but it’s given me some direction for further reading. Thanks for taking the time to respond 😊 I have looked at the planet size in the image and back calculated to FR and it came out to F/17, so I thought I was actually oversampled with my 2.9um pixels.

Thanks Vlaiv, super informative as ever. The individual stacked tiffs were all sharpened with wavelets and deconvolution before going into WJ…. And I guessed at the kernel size during the deconvolution step exactly like you said. Any ideas how I could properly restore all frequencies?! Sampling looks ok though does it? I’m not sure.

Really nice result Neil, lovely detail

Very nice Mike, tough to beat sheer aperture on the moon

Had a go using the normal FFT function and got this (loaded up my winjupos derotation output OSC with no further post processing/sharpening). Edge of circle is 2.06 pix per cycle. Does this look right @vlaiv. Seems to be a large concentration of low frequencies If I try the same thing on the fully post processed image (no rescaling occured) I get this weirdness

Just having a go with the FFTJ plugin but I'm doing something wrong I think... what settings do you use in this box?

That mosaic is a real beaut, the different mineralogy of the Aristarchus plateau is plain to see.