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Yes sir!😉 I will try, I remember your excellent animation back in June so the standards are high.

I agree with Stuart a bit noisy but more details on the last set . Worth playing with derotation, it had helped my captures this season, as I seem to control the noise better.

Thank you both. The 'cloud' season will start again for me.

Thanks Steve. It's getting exciting again.

Venus disc size is increasing and I had a quick session to capture UV clouds this afternoon. I think in a week or two we should be getting some nice details if the weather is stable. 8" Dob, manual, asi462mm, UV and IR pass filters, 2.5xTV powermate. False colour by combining the IR (red)/ IR:UV (green)/UV (blue).

Yes it's not huge amounts of details but they seem to pop more, maybe the harder pushing is helping, a bit less noisy too.

I have never made drizzle work for me but I think your drizzled image shows some more details (assuming similar way of processing) at the NEB, SEB and EZ.

Great shots and a nice write up as always Avani.

I kind of recollect now. I suppose under excellent seeing you could go higher but these images are looking excellent. Worth trying Uranus with the IR as it's northern polar hood is starting to face us but you can still get a district banding. Even with my 8" and IR I could capture it.

Great set of images Geof, and fantastic to see you imaging and posting again. Could you briefly comment on the imaging conclusion? Are you at X5 the camera pixel or something else?

Very nice Steve. Nice processing.

Very nice images. Your methane has some nice details coming through plus bang on the GRS 🤩. The IR is excellent. You seem to have had very good seeing, did you try any colour captures?

Excellent image and processing. Did you derotate the captures as you seem to have some nice constant seeing at the beginning of the animation. The animation is really smooth.

Thanks Maurizio. The 'haze' is from overstretching the image to show the weak methane absorption on the globe. I think with more data it should be easier to pop and avoid this.

Thanks Simon. When I resized it at 120% it was losing the sharpness and was becoming softer and noisy.

I agree and I think it's probably my last imaging of it unless we get spectacular seeing.

I had a decent Saturn session on the 15 Sep, probably the most stable I have seen it this apparition. I captured an OSC image which is ok but the IR and methane came out nice; I created a false colour by trying to match the methane colour to its absorption band pass but of course IR is not blue 😉; more artistic interpretation than true colours. CH4 is 30 min derotation. 8" Dob, asi 462mm, 2.5xTV powermate, IR and CH4 filters.

Very nice set of images. Saturn has come out nicely.

Excellent image. Colour balance is excellent and the details you have brought out in your processing. Opposition should provide us with an excellent opportunity for better images.

Thank you both. I think seeing is a big factor but careful collimation also helps.

International Space Station from 04/09/23. First time trying to make a 'high resolution' animation. 8" Dob, manual, asi462mc, 2.5xTV powermate, UV/IR cut filter. 20000 frames with ISS and hand picked every 500 to stack and create a frame. It is capturing the approach, zenith and departure. Not great seeing that night.

International Space Station two hours after the moon transit above (04/09/23). 8" Dob, manual, asi462mc, 2.5xTV powermate, UV/IR cut filter. 20000 frames with ISS and hand picked every 500 to stack and create a frame. It is capturing the approach, zenith and departure. Not great seeing that night.

Excellent images. It was really good last night. I was told by a friend that the night before was even better.

Thanks Peter . As long as I get 4-6hrs sleep I am fine. I was up this morning again but not good seeing so I was back in bed. The idea of the platform is good and I have started looking into a DIY from the excellent SGL topic on it. I should do it over the winter for next season.

Great shots. I would love to see it one day. You didn't, did you? 💣 💥 🤣