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Great result. You can push de-rotation on Saturn further than you think to get a superb result from mediocre seeing.
You have captured the planet showing through the rings very well.
Peter
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Thanks guys. The next night was a write off with blurred seeing. It's all down to the seeing really.
Peter
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Hi Angie
Really nice images, great colour balance as well.
Peter
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Well done, at least you saw something. It's been cloudy here since 12th August
Peter
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Nice image, with my ZWO ADC I have the levers at about +/- 50 degrees from horizontal. I use Firecapture which has a nice ADC calibration feature. When viewing on screen in colour, it has a red and blue circle which you need to overlap, it changes to white as it overlaps. Seems to work for me. I did find over the past few years that I ran out of adjustment with the levers and couldn't correct the Planets below 20 degrees altitude. No issues with Jupiter at the moment. Last year with Mars, I hardly needed to move the levers from null because the planet was approx 50 degs.
I always have to boost saturation with the OSC cameras. I find the image too yellow when captured, so I tweak the colour balance towards blue to compensate as well.
Colour balance is much harder with OSC compared to RGB.
Peter
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Excellent capture and animation, an amazing event.
Peter
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You must be pleased with those after such a long break. Good reward for all the effort.
Peter
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At last we have some good seeing. Here are a few images showing the GRS region rotating off the disk. Two prominent dark barges just above the NEB.
Note the 23:45 image was a single image, the seeing went to pot for 15-20 mins or so before recovering in time for the other images.
By comparing with the later images it is clear to see the benefit of de-rotating and combining multiple images in WinJUPOS.
Details in the images.
Peter
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Craig is spot on with the focusing technique, it's what I do as well. Also notice an improvement in feature contrast at best focus.
An electric focuser is a must, you will be fortunate to find focus with the telescope focuser, too much vibration when you touch it.
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Thank for the comments.
Neil, the imaging was 3 x 8000 frame subs at 50fps, so about 160 secs each, but spaced out over the 18 mins with gaps because of clouds scudding by.
Peter
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Hi Neil,, good results considering the poor conditions. I noticed that the moon shadow doesn't have too many colour fringes, so your colour channels are quite well aligned. I think autostakkert does some of the heavy work if you have that box ticked.
A well tuned ADC will help resolution further however.
Craig, check Damian's images for the location. At lower right most of the good recent ones say Chilescope. This is remote imaging in the Atacama desert in Chile with Jupiter high in the sky.
Peter
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Definitely a small improvement, ha! Excellent results.
Peter
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Great results again Neil. Well done.
Peter
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Hi Neil, another set of great images with the 245 Newt, Well done. Some great detail captured.
Peter
JuJpiter with Io and Shadow in transit 28th August 2021
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Jupiter with Io and shadow in transit. The first and last images were short de-rotations showing moon and shadow distinctly. The middle image was a longer de-rotation and the differential motion of fast moving Io has smeared the disk out.
Peter