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Very nice, nothing but cloud here again last night.

Excellent images for just 35 degree elevation Avani.

A lovely set of images Kostas.

Simply superb

Wow, that it is superb. I have never seen a Moonbow....👏

Nice capture Peter

I love it Kostas, the Eagle has landed on Mars, 53+ years after the Moon.....🤣. Nice capture BTW

Very nice

Nice Mars, with excellent polar hood showing.

Three lovely images Simon, the 1st Jupiter is the best, but also a very nice Mars, with good detail showing.

Wonderful images Avani

Excellent Mars capture and a nice looking scope

Very good Mars

Well done. I recall capturing my first images of Jupiter with a DSLR and it's not an easy gig.....

Ditto to that about @neil phillips, I had a huge amount of help from Neil, both in which colour camera to chose this summer, and then how to optimise using it with my rig. He's still one of my primary gotos for continued advice, so I feel a little bit that I cheated him out of winning.

Thanks Steve

OMG, it’s the first time I’ve won anything, so how happy am I. The standard set by everyone was excellent, so to get my animation voted best in the >50N deg category in such illustrious company is very pleasing indeed, thank you. Congratulations also to Avani, Kostas and Neil.

Thanks. For this image I was using a permanently mounted C14, with an ASI462MC camera with and an ADC. If conditions are excellent I sometimes include a barlow or Powermate to increase operating focal length for additional amplification.

Hi Avani, thanks for you observations and contibution to this topic, which seem to align with what most of the top planetary imagers do. I also don't know why the field experience of so many experts doesn't support the mathematical theory. There must be something about imaging through Earth's atmosphere (or something else) that changes the maths in a way that I do not understand and certainly can't explain.

Thanks Stuart

I thought I'd consigned all my videos from 8 Nov 2022 to the trash, but when checking items to back up I found them still lurking on the hard drive, so I hada look at them. The conditions were very poor, with a lot of low cloud, so I was primarily experimenting with where in the optical train to locate the lens from my new Baader barlow ready for better conditions. I started out trying with a barlow screwed into the end of the nosepiece, giving F21 so no better than with my x2 TV PM, then screwed inside the nosepiece close to the sensor for F18, which was more what I was after. Neither of those amplifications were usable for the conditions, but I did capture a single run without the barlow, which is just about usable, so here is the result from that. It's best 6000 frames (~22%) from a 6 min SER, captured at 13ms (76 fps). Having captured the data through a fair amount of haze, getting any detail to show whilst controlling noise proved challenging, but some details are coming through and oval BA is well seen just past the meridian.

Looks like its a visual fiter, so maybe why I've not seen any images from using it.

Thanks Stuart, unfortunately the seeing has been very poor recently. I've been rating it 3/5 based on recent experience, but in reality it's probably been more like 2/5 - just pleased to be able to see anything. The more frames I can stack the smoother the result, but when I went above 10% the resolution fell away pretty quickly, which I think tells it's own story. The recent fog indicates more stable air I think, but it's been getting so thick here that I was having to push the gain up until eventually I couldn't see anything.

Excellent images. As @Kon says, to get rid of the ring artefact, just select the planet in PS, Affinity, or what ever image processing tool you prefer, then invert to select the background and fill with the same colour.

Lovely images. I don’t think I’ve seen many, if any, NUV images of Jupiter, so what bandwidth is that please?