Ibbo!

Quick and dirty process

GRS and Io on the screen but as Arkwright may have said its Jer Jer jiggling  bit in the breeze

and at the moment if the seeing is rubbish its best guess in the "best looking"range

1 hour ago, Cosmic Geoff said:

Lots of detail on those rings. With IR pass filter and Powermate, what was the frame rate/exposure time like?

Thanks

23ms 31 fps

Here is one from about 1 hour later.

Not much has changed 😀

edit alterd contrast, cropped and colour balance altered.

I got clearance about an hour late.

With blackbirds rather than the earlier owls (while grabing saturn data) for background sound effects

the early back up vid will be my record of the 50th.

My 1202 alarm is clouds😟

I thought there might be a prog on normal TV (BBC,ITV) at the time of the walk.

1 minute ago, Davey-T said:

Still clear 

Dave

Oh oh oh just seen it

and its gone again

Still cloudy

Off to locate beer as cloud has come in.🍻

my Scottish wine is Irish this time .🥃

now over to luna as saturn nowparked in garage

Seeing much better than the other night.

Back with the C11 and the colour cam on Saturn.

Try letting Eqmod search for the com port itself

This is about the closest I will get to the date.

My thoughts

a ) Seeing was not good here tonight -C11 no powermate

b)  What gain was you using - I tend to use 70% ish on the planets and a low gain on sun and moon

c) it got a bit chilly for shorts and t shirt

8 minutes ago, Ruud said:

This is what the Skywatcher Nirvana / WO UWAN 16 mm looked like when they still had a twist-up eye cup.

I have this eyepiece. It's compact, comfortable and optically very good.

There aren't many focal lengths, just 4, 7 and 16mm. The 16mm has the largest eye lens and plenty eye relief.

Two months back, Agnes posted a report on the new 16mm Nirvana:

 

You forgot the big brother 

the 28mm

A tin of gloss and a paintbrush interferred with my attempt, sorry for the swearing.

Now set up and focused just waiting r seing to settle (I hope)

Haze coming back in Moon is going yellow again.

1 hour ago, Davey-T said:

Nice one Steve, I had no intention of trying to image Saturn this time around but due to the surprise felling of the neighbours Leylandii I can now see it from the obsy, so got as far as sticking the ZWOASI178 on my old Atik 1 filter wheel and having a quick look last night between the clouds to see the usual wobbly thing, now ordered an ADC from FLO to help, maybe an IR filter is needed as well

Dave

I pulled the ADC from the chain last night as well  as I just did the IR, also I had lost jove by the time I had stopped fiddling with the kit.

I had almost given up on the planets this time round but maybe I spoke too soon, a bit of decent seeing and things improve.

Or maybe forget the colour cam and go for IR filters is the way to go.

I have more data to prod and poke but am in need of sleep.

200mm SCT x2.5 powermate IR642 filter Chameleon mono cam.

25 minutes ago, geoflewis said:

Thanks Steve,

Good luck with the prodding and poking 😀. I'm not sure if I'll continue with planetary imaging much longer this year. I stuck with it last year hoping that Mars would come good, but there some summer DSOs that I'd like to capture that I haven't looked at for a few years due to me mainly focusing on planetary imaging from late April through early September. I'll let this Moon cycle clear out of the way, then probably switch cameras as we move back towards fully dark skies again.

Geof

I know how you feel, it seems a dead loss at the moment. I have banished the C11 back to the cupboard -again.

Very good for this year I would say.

Yes I was out but I am still prodding and poking the stacks.

A gentle waft of the hair dryer on the dew collector certainly upset the seeing 😀

thanks folks.

i will try the other ser files when i hand done clearing out the garage which was brought by another thread on SGL