CraigT82

If you can post up your capture text logs form your various sessions it might give us a clue if there something wrong somewhere

You don’t have binning enabled in sharpcap do you? That would produce a much smaller image in terms of how many pixels Jupiter occupies.

To put it bluntly, if you’re looking for big planetary images you need to use a big scope. The bigger the scope the bigger the resulting image. The 150p and 5x barlow with 224c will give you a Jupiter image which should be about 190 pixels across the equator, is that roughly what you’re getting?

Excellent calculator here by @dan_adi

Nice one…. Counterweights are so expensive it’s good to see some innovative alternatives 👍🏼

Very nice 👍🏼

Thanks, all sounds like good advice

Nice work, would be amazing to spot Olympus visually

Yes AS3 would be best I think, as there would be thousands of subs and so manually rejecting bad ones would be tedious. Not sure how you would place alignment points, on stars probably unless there was some good nebula/galaxy with structure in the subs and you could put points on those too. I would definitely take darks as it wouldn’t take that long with the short exposures. Probably wouldn’t bother with flats with the small sensor of the 462. For the same reason I wouldn’t bother with a coma corrector either.

Thanks I think I’ll wear eye protection too and be sure to mask connectors and switches.

I have ordered a can of Ambersil acrylic conformal coating and I plan on using it to seal the motherboard inside my AZEQ6. Does anyone have any hints, tips or tricks for doing this? Cheers

Are you able to upload the raw capture video somewhere so we can download and have a play? The image of the raw frame looks ok to me

That is excellent, not only the detail but the blending of the panels too, really nice work well done 👍🏼

Not sure about anyone else but I can’t see the images in your post?

Really nice Kon loving the surface details on view

Really nice work Geof loads of surface detail on show

Nice one 👍🏼 Can’t beat it for a £60 scope!

Thanks Geof, just concentrated on adjusting the colour and tidying the edges really. Had a another go at cloning away the edge rind which has worked a bit better than my first go.

Bit of a reprocess… quite subtle not much difference really. original for ref…

Very nice Geof 👍🏼

About 6 years ago I bought a big down filled parka coat from millets which was about £100 I think, best Astro investment I ever made. Also have some Karimoor snow fur insulated boots which have been great but are a bit worn out now. For me it’s mostly the hands and feet that suffer. Haven’t yet found any gloves that keep my fingers warm whilst letting me operate everything without taking them off. The search continues.

Sounds interesting. AI deconvolution trained on Astro images that uses that can calculate PSF from the stars in the image. Also can apply different deconvolution to different parts of the image (stars/nebula etc).

Absolutely, if the parabola isn’t actually a parabola due to poor figuring

To be honest Vlaiv I'm not totally convinced you're not an A.I. 😆

Very nice image Geof. The never ending battle of detail vs noise continues