Pete Presland

Hi welcome to SGL from Peter in Bedfordshire 

Interesting observations, pretty decent captures considering what you have said about the window ledge.

I would certainly be trying one of your powermate's, have you consider an ADC as well?  

I have done in the past and am planning to in the coming months. Uranus is certainly a little more rewarding than Neptune. One thing i will definitely be doing is capturing lots and lots and lots of frames. This was with 12,000 very slowly gathered frames, which took nearly an hour. I might try my asi290 as well.

This is Uranus and several moons, the polar cap is clearly visible to the upper left of the planet disc.

This was captured with my C9.25, asi224mc, Baader 610 filter.

The original thread is here and has some excellent advice on processing, the above image was towards the end of the thread.

Neptune was a little less inspiring, same capture technique.

Looked like a beauty,  I have never been lucky enough to see anything similar. 

Hi welcome to SGL from Peter in Bedfordshire 

Hi welcome to SGL from Peter in Bedfordshire 

Hi welcome to SGL from Peter in Bedfordshire :-)

I have done both and still do both, nothing to feel guilty about. I thoroughly enjoy the challenge of star hoping, but also enjoy observing objects. When time/clear skies are limited for astronomers, sometimes a quick "computer aided slew" to an object is extremely welcome 🙂 

Don't feel guilty about anything in astronomy, just enjoy the experience my friend.  

Very nicely sketched, thanks for the video as well.

A wonderfully detail painting!

What a nice surprise,  a superb capture

Managed to see and captured the 3% illuminated Moon on the 31st. Looked very nice from Bedfordshire,  as the sky was darkening.

At least things seem to have picked up since this image 🙂

Looking pretty good, despite the conditions. 

Some decent looking proms there.

Saturn certainly is one of the stand out objects in the sky, i never tire of seeing it. Congratulations on seeing for the first time!

A beautiful slender Moon was on show Saturday evening as the Sun set. Nothing fancy here other than a precariously perched DSLR on the bedroom window ledge.

Sunday night was the first time i have had the scope out since early July. Mostly due to having a hernia opp.

So its was great to be back down the bottom of the garden staring/imaging planets through the gunk at below 20 degrees 🙂 

Jupiter really caught me out. I was waiting patiently for it to appear behind next doors conifers, by the time i realized it was already visible it was pretty low.

Saturn was imaged just after transiting the meridian, so still at a reasonable altitude.  The images are nothing to get too excited about, but it was a very enjoyable session 🙂 🙂 🙂 

A pretty poor Jupiter, C9.25, ASI224mc, X1.8 Barlow + ADC.

A reasonable Saturn, C9.25, ASI224mc, X1.8 Barlow + ADC.

Another reasonable Saturn, C9.25, ASI290mm, X1.8 Barlow.

Focus is really tough, once you have the seeing conditions, its the key along with the colimation of the scope.

6 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Thanks, it's difficult to know when to stop thrashing the data! There's a touch more detail in the  drizzled one. Some people stack a drizzled version then  downsample, which might be worth a try.

Personally I think the one with the moons also has the best Jupiter. Moons and planet got exactly the same processing, which is why Callisto is so faint.

Yes very difficult to know. I was out on Sunday night, 1st time for ages, I jave been doing exactly that since yesterday  🙂

Planety of details visible there.

Excellent images Dave!

Very nicely captured

Very nicely captured and presented.

That's a cracking prom, completely missed its appearance!