Barv

Some lovely details on Mars there Simon! Well done indeed

Details looking great Peter! Well done

Excellent work Peter. Loads of detail on Saturn, particularly at its low altitude. Well done indeed!

Best

Harvey

7 hours ago, astroman001 said:

Superb image. well done. great clarity and colour. Image cale looks large, what barlow are you using?

Peter

Thanks Peter

I was only using a 1.5X barlow. Image scale was increased in processing, which I did because it would stand it. Thanks for the compliment

Best

Harvey

Hi

That's a very tidy image. Conditions were pretty good generally last night with no jetstream around. You can go further in these conditions but you'll need to use that barlow I'm afraid. Some form of focus control is pretty essential with something like F20, but patience doing the focusing is key here.

Best

Harvey

40 minutes ago, cuivenion said:

Wow, thats a goodun!

Thank you 😊 

Hi again Guys

Some fairly stable seeing here last night, although I would say that transparency was pretty average tbh. Pleased with this one though

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Thanks Guys for your help. I'll try the Beta release first

Cheers Harvey

Hi Guys

I've just bought a ZWO462 camera. I can get this to work on Both sharpcap and ZWO's  own software but for Some strange reason, fire capture doesn't see it. I have the latest drivers installed and my ZWO224 works fine on fire capture. Any clues please?

Cheers Harvey

Great work, well done!

Nicely done Simon, better conditions will come for sure!

Best Wishes

Harvey

Super detail showing here Peter! 

Hi Guys

Some fairly steady seeing early this morning here, although transparency was only around 7/10. Hope you like it

Best Wishes

Harvey

Beautiful image Craig! Well done Sir

Superb Mars Simon, I was out later on, the seeing here was very jittery. Well done again!

Regards

Harvey

Hi Guys

thank you all so much for your encouraging comments. They're very much appreciated.

Clear skies to you all!

Best Wishes

Harvey

A nice image Pete. As mentioned elsewhere it's a little over exposed on the pole. It's difficult to tone this down, so may need a repro. It may be worth reducing capture times down to 3 mins to be safe, - I know that's what I do

Regards

Harvey

On 23/08/2020 at 14:51, Ouroboros said:

Really nice. Amazing the detail the C14s can pull out.  How does an ADC work? 

Hi

ADC stands for Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector. It's basically 2 lenses where the angles can be altered to compensate for light that defracts when it goes through the Earths atmosphere. By setting the positions correctly it ensures that the different wavelengths all hit the sensor as they should, which basically means that the image becomes noticeably sharper than if you didn't use one. The lower down the object is, the more benefit these give you. I hope this explains?

Regards

Harvey

Hi Guys

It's been a little while since I posted anything on here due to personal commitments. I finally managed to get out at silly o'clock on the morning of the 19th. Seeing was reasonable so I had a stab at Mars. Taken with the C14, ZWO 224 and a Pierre Astro ADC

Hope you like it!

Best Wishes

Harvey

6 hours ago, Radec said:

It's funny how some glorious images just don't get the recognition they deserve on many forums. This is not only an excellent capture, but it's very sympathetically processed too. Not overly aggressive or forced. It shows the value of good data in the first place, that requires sensitive processing rather than 'pushing'. What software did you run it through?

Hi Radek, thanks once again. Main processing was done in Pixin, with a little bit in Astra Image. 

49 minutes ago, Radec said:

That is gorgeous! You are not just a planetary imager any more. One of the best amateur versions I've seen.

Thank you so much for the positive comment and encouragement Radec. I've done very little DS imaging, and with the lack of other comments I thought it couldn't have been very good! Really appreciate this

Regards

Harvey

Lovely shot, well done!

Hi Guys

I thought I'd post this as I've not posted on this section before because I'm mainly a planetary imager.

There is around 5 hours 45 mins of data here, taken with a QHY8L OSC camera and the C14 with a reducer. Focal length was 2.7 metres. Comments and constructive criticism always welcomed, but I hope you enjoy it.

All the best

Harvey

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Hi Guys

Not as good as some images on here I know, but I am quite pleased with how this mosaic turned out at just a tad over 12 degrees.

Thanks for looking

Hi Guys

I've not been out imaging for some time mainly due to personal reasons. I did however get out on the nights of the 17th and 18th. I was allowing the C14 plenty of time to cool whilst viewing through my binoculars. I was quite surprised at how saturn was looking, particularly on the 18th. I decided to slew the C14 towards it and started imaging it after it had cooled down. Here is the result, which I should add is a mosaic, because the moons needed to be captured separately. I'm pleasantly surprised at the level of detail captured bearing in mind its altitude here, which was just 15 deg at the time.