Barv

On 22/08/2023 at 22:01, Kon said:

Very nice image despite the conditions. (You seem to have a blue cast at the edges). 

Thanks Kon. Yes, must admit, I didn't notice that straight away! It shows more at night! LOL

On 22/08/2023 at 23:05, orion25 said:

Nice GRS!

thank you 🙂

On 23/08/2023 at 06:46, si@nite said:

Some nice detail around the grs.

Thanks Simon, hope you're well! 

On 22/08/2023 at 18:13, Fraunhoffer said:

Lovely 🙂

 

 

Thank You 🙂

Thank you. Appreciated 🙂

Hi Guys

Not posted things on here for some time due to work commitments, and frankly, I can't be a*rsed to get up at silly o'clock! 🙃

So, this particular day I drove back from holidaying in lovely Devon and the sky looked ok when I got back. I saw Saturn coming up so opened the obsy and put the fan on on the big Mak. After a few hours of fiddling around I slewed to Jupiter and got the following result. Conditions  were stable, but there was some localised high cloud around which frankly, played havoc with the captures. Transparency was quite milky too. Anyway, - here it is!

Best WIshes

Harvey

9 hours ago, Grant said:

Wowsers! That's incredible detail - that Zen Mak is giving superb results 🙂

 

Cheers Grant, appreciated. The optics are really coming into their own on Mars

10 hours ago, michael.h.f.wilkinson said:

That is really good. I am hoping to have a go tonight. Fingers crossed

Thanks Michael, - good luck tonight!

2 hours ago, geoflewis said:

That's excellent for the conditions you had, with loads of detail on show.

Cheers Geof, it surprised me!

3 hours ago, knobby said:

That's excellent Barv. And yet another cracking image taken well outside of the conventional wisdom of 5 x pixel size .. you're approx 9 x but an excellent result.

Thanks Knobby. Mars seems to fair better with pushing the focal length over other subjects

Cheers

Harvey

Lovely image Geof, very natural

Cheers

Harvey

Very Nice Stuart. - Doesn't look bad for a rushed focus!

All the best

Harvey

Hi Guys

I actually went out to check collimation after needing to strip down my scope due to an issue with the inbuilt focuser. This was done for the first couple of hours of being out, so I pointed to Mars afterwards. Things looked that bad on the live view, and focusing was extremely difficult, despite the high altitude of Mars at the time. I was frankly amazed that once I started processing the data, a wealth of detail was present. Here is the result

Thanks for looking

Harvey

Both look lovely Kon, personally, I prefer the larger image scale

Cheers

Harvey

Thanks Geof. Of course it can't be done easily on Jupiter as the screens not big enough!

Hi Guys

Here's a shot of Mars taken under reasonable seeing compared with the norm on this apparition. I'm finding it best to image at a longer FL if seeing plays ball. This was imaged at around F26 with the 462MC, which of course is way oversampled. I'm preferring this image scale though

Best Wishes

Harvey

Fantastic images! I must congratulate you Astrolulu! This must be the best collection of quality lunar images I have seen anywhere! 👋

1 hour ago, stuy said:

Lovely image mate ,you just need THAT night of great seeing it will come and when it does  😳😳👌

Thanks Stuy. I am really surprised bearing in mind the conditions!

1 hour ago, Space Cowboy said:

Lots of detail there Harvey!

Thanks Stuart 🙂

2 hours ago, Scooot said:

That’s  another cracker Harvey. I like the colours. 

Cheers Richard 😀

Thanks Kon, -appreciate your views

Cheers

Harvey

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I was pleased to get this level of detail on the night of the 30th October. Seeing could only be described as fair, but transparency was the usual 'mushy' that I seem to get here. Clearly the quality of the Maks optics are starting to show through. Better windows to come hopefully

Cheers

Harvey

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9 hours ago, U Cyg said:

Nicely done Harvey.  Good to see you posting again.

Angie

Thanks Angie. Good to hear from you!

2 minutes ago, Chris said:

Superb!

Thank you Chris. Appreciated 🙂

3 minutes ago, Chris said:

Superb!

2 hours ago, Scooot said:

That’s a fantastic image Harvey, your experience and know how really shows through. Maybe yet another image in one of the magazines? 

Thanks very much Richard, who knows!

Cheers

Harvey