Nigella Bryant

Cak, 100mm bresser, 0.5 reducer, lunt cak b1800 module and Zwo Asi 178 mono camera. HA double stack and ZwoAsi 178mm mono camera.

Hope your recovery is swift, live long and prosper Mr Spock.

Saturn and Jupiter session this evening.

Finally a little clear early this evening. Had a couple of hours looking at Saturn and Jupiter. Saturn was difficult being low down just above my hedge. Could see cassini devision and the equatorial band. Jupiter had some amazing detail at times. Could see at least five festoons from the NEB, two yellow looking lighter areas from the NEB into the equatorial zone. The SEB was rather bland until the GRS came into view. SEB had a large disturbance where the proceeding GRS began. Saw Io go into eclipse from the upper west. Much better seeing than the previous session several days ago.

Thanks Jeremy

Lot's from the postie, well, via birthday pressies, lol. Not all things astro but quite a few. Usb heated gloves, 2x barlow lens, dew ring for the C11, dew controller and the meow book by Patrick Moore. The 10inch tablet will come in handy too, lol.

Thanks Peter much appreciated.

I was out twice last night, Saturn wasn't to bad but anything past the scopes native f10 was a mush. I could see the cassini devision, the creamy white equatorial band and darker hood. Next was Jupiter. Tried just at f10 but seeing wasn't the best. Couldn't get a proper focus, jumping in and out of focus. Anyway, thought I'd go in doors for a while and see if things get better. Went out again at 22.30UT and things had improved and even a little more by 23.00UT. Tried Jupiter at f10 and f25. Details weren't great at f10 but not bad at f25. At f25 I seem to be able to focus better on the moment's of good seeing. Jupiter showed quite a few festoons coming off of the NEB. SEB showed knots and STeB, SSTeb and NTeB, NNTe were visible. The northerly and southerly zones were prominent too. Nigella

Thanks, much appreciated, I'm still practicing, lol. Much better colour.

Tweak away, lol. Thanks.

Hopefully ballanced a little better.

Lovely, I'm going to be clouded out until around 11pm when it's supposed to clear. Happy GRS observing.

Thanks Geoff, appreciate all your input.

Thanks Jeremy, much appreciated and encouraging. Nigella

After some input from members on here about techniques I've caught not only Jupiter but Io with some detail. Really chuffed.

Thanks Geoff, will the weather though, lol.

Thanks Geoff, very helpful, I've a 2x barlow but it's for my birthday pressie next week so don't think I'd get away with saying I wanted to test it, lol. I do have an ADC. If I could get to say f15 that would be great I think. I didn't know about Winjupos telling me about the focal length, thanks for that, that will be interesting to know. Nigella

Thanks Geoff, much appreciated and encouraging. Perhaps I'm to hard on myself, lol. It will be interesting to see imaging at f10 instead of f25. Supposed to be clear tonight and tomorrow. I'll try at both focal lengths as an experiment.

Thanks Ian, much appreciated. It's been suggested to just image at the native focal length of f10. I don't understand the science behind it but I'm going to experiment on the next clear night. Something to do with oversampling, getting higher frame rates and lower file size.

Thanks IB20, much appreciated.

Thanks, trial and error, learning lots here.

Thanks Jeremy, getting there, lol.

Thanks John, much appreciated, my first GRS image, lol.

Hi all, just added this new image from the 27th. This time three images derotated and using registax auto colour balance. Thanks for the tips people, what a great forum to help a beginner in planetary imaging. C11 plus 2.5x powermate and Zwo Asi 462mc. Still some way to go, lol.

lovely captures, thanks for sharing. I'm only just beginning with my C11.