Pete Presland

Lovely close up capture

Nice capture at least you got something, despite the problems.

The clouds gave me no chance of seeing 1st contact, but they did clear at times quite nicely. Wind and clouds played havoc with imaging, at least the rain held off!

Really pleased to see/image anything to be honest.

Lunt 50mm, DMK21au618, stacked the best 10% of 1500 frames.

Not the best conditions,  but compared to earlier its wonderful 

Might be an outside chance of some gaps 🙂

I would be more than happy with that outcome as well John

Beautiful looking Moon shot!

Lovely memories Steve, i seem to remember that the early morning conditions were not great last time either considering it was early Summer. There does look like a chance its going to be better PM, so fingers crossed for a few gaps!

Forecast isn't great for tomorrow, but it does say its going to clear a little by dinnertime.

Hi welcome to SGL from Peter in Bedfordshire 🙂

Hi welcome to SGL from Peter in Bedfordshire 🙂

The early mornings are a beautiful sight at the moment, always my favorite time of the day at any time of the year.

With the current weather around, any view is going to be a bonus!

These are a couple of images from a few years back, of the same active area when activity was plentiful.

White light on the left, H/A on the right.  Much more detailed than you will see through the eyepiece though.

Looking forward to this, just hope the weather is kind. I have decided to view/image it from my mum's. Decent views from the beginning until around 3.30 so just past mid point.

Interesting seeing the sketches especially, thanks for sharing.

We have LED lights fitted down our road recently, it certainly seems to have helped a little. The town in general is abysmal. The amount of businesses that light their premises up all night with dozens of lights, its seems crazy purely on a financial level.   

Very nicely reported and a very interesting link.

No wonder i couldn't see C/2017 T2 through my 20x80's the other morning. I didn't realize it was so faint.

I also use a zoom eyepiece, certainly very convenient to carry around. When i first bought my old PST, i did try a few different eyepieces and could not see much difference in what was visible through many of them.

It is very quite at the moment, even in H/A unfortunately.

I do love to see a large Sunspot in white light though. So as soon as the activity picks up it will be well worth getting a filter to view them. When the seeing is particularly good its so interesting to see the fine detail in the Umbra and Penumbra. 

Using Firecapture allows the user to take a flat before the imaging run and apply it as the data is captured.

The method is very simple, especially for the mosaics i do. I defocus, set the histogram to 50-70%, capture flat field. When you capture your data the flat is automatically applied. You have do a new flat whenever the imaging train is altered.

8 hours ago, astroavani said:

I find it impossible due to the low altitude of Uranus here for me, it is already difficult in excellent condition friend Pete!

I didn't realise it was so low for you, Jupiter and Saturn have been the same for us in the UK.

1 hour ago, Benjam said:

Thank you for coming to my rescue

I can’t actually find anyway of buying Christophe Pellier’s book. However I did manage to signup to his newsletter (Get successful Planetary images). 

 

Reading through the thread under the advert, there is question asking about the English version in September. The response is "still working on it"

I don't think there is much choice of books dedicated to just planetary imaging. I would quite like to read this one though. Damien Peach also has a few DVD's out on the subject as well. 

https://www.planetary-astronomy-and-imaging.com/en/planetary-astronomy-the-book/

Hi welcome to SGL from Pete in Biggleswade 🙂

Hi welcome to SGL from Pete in Biggleswade :-)