Kon

Excellent report and that's dedication to bring your telescope to the holiday. I should invest on a travel setup.

Thanks. I never left it, I only neglected it 🤣. I did miss the calmness and tranquility of observing.

In recent weeks I have been consumed with planetary photography with my Dob and I have not looked down the eyepiece properly for long time and it has also been a while . The planets looked awful last night for imaging as they were 'simmering' but the Milky Way was visible so I decided to have a nice relaxing session in the Cygnus area. Istarted with the planets anyways but both Jupiter and Saturn were just a mess even with the 8.8mm EP; with the 14 I could pick up some banding on Jupiter. I then put my 24mm as I was planning to view nebulas. Saturn looked pretty in the star field; my wife calls it unreal. Jupiter visible with its 4 moons as well. I then moved to M27. A nice ring with some of its mag13 stars visible with averted vision. Going up with the magnification made it look worse with loss of details. I could see a nice outer bright ring and a fuzzier inside. With the 24 I could pick some greenish colours as others indicated on their reports (in the higher mag it was greyish). I know the area quite well so I was panning around and I found the Coathanger looking....well like a coathanger 🤣. Then down the M71 which appeared as a fuzzy little patch. Higher magnification did not resolve individual stars. I then moved to M27. The seeing must have been really good at this point towards zenith as I could see it in my finder scope as a smudge of light. With the 24 the shape was apparent as an hour glass. Unfortunately, I was too preoccupied to go to Veil that I did not put the OIII filter for comparison. Next was the Veil. I could see it without any filter with averted vision but with the OIII it really popped nicely. Nice filaments on both Eastern and Western Veil with a lot of structure. Pickerings Triangle nicely defined with lighter and darker filaments. That really made my night and I am really looking forward to more observing as nights are longer now. I finally moved to the NAN that was easily distinguishable from the darker background. The Gulf of Mexico was showing some nice structure at the edges. Overall an excellent few hours of observing. Unfortunately, my S horizon was cloudy as I was after the usual late summer delights. This weekend is looking promising.

M57 and M27 nebulas. 8" Dob, manual, ES 24mm, NexYZ mobile holder, Pixel 4a controlled by Procam X. I collected 14 and 40 frames each. Stacked in Siril; M57 is showing some of the outer nebulosity. 1s exposures, iso 7200.

Nice report and sketches.

Regarding focus with my asi462mc I cannot reach focus with the 1.25" adapter but if I move to the 2" one no problem at all. With the barlow or powermate, I can reach focus with the 1.25" if that helps. That was true for bot hthe asi120mc-s and 462mc that I have.

The advise you got from @Cosmic Geoff is spot on. To add to that, I have an 8" Dob with manual tracking. I use the asi462mc (I upgraded from asi120mc-s). I shoot with a ROI of 640x480 planetary and ISS (see planetary session and wide field). It is a lot of work and takes patience as you need to keep recentring every few secs. I easily get 15-20K frames per recording at 300fps but at that ROI it is roughly 8-10GB. I am using an external ssd with 500gb on it and it gets filled quickly with several captures per session. If you go down the manual Dob and planetary route get a RACI it will save your back and frustration.

Very nice, but I personally feel your previous post had more details.

Great animation.

That's a very nice image with good details.

Nice image with good details. Regarding Io, you could run a simulation in Winjupos. The halo most likely an artefact IMHO.

Nice animation, it brings it to life.

Stunning amount of details! Just owo!🤩 Top one looks as great.

Stunning picture and I enjoyed the write-up as well.

Thanks Jeremy.

Saturn and Jupiter on 10th September in Wiltshire. I also shoot Jupiter on the 11th but colour balance was a nightmare so I am showing it in B&W. 8" Dob, manual, 2.5x TV powermate, ES 8.8mm for Saturn and 6.7mm for Jupiter, NexYZ mobile holder, Pixel 4a controlled by Procam X. I collected a 2 min video and I used PIPP, Autostakert and Astrosurface.

Thanks Neil, it means a lot! They have come out quite well despite the milky sky. Mars was still low on my East but the sky deteriorated pretty fast after 3am.

Thank you. Yes the colour Saturn is a bit embarrassing 🤣. You are right, the GRS was on show earlier but my seeing was awful to have capture it.

Very nice, your animation is pretty cool.

Very nice Jupiter! The storms and swirls are really well defined. I don't know about you but my sky was milky but I could still pull some nice details.

Nice capture and details; the cloud on the polar cap has come out nicely.

I did not expect much last night with the awful transparency we had. There were moments that things did not seem to 'boil'. Despite that I shot my best Saturn in IR (the colour is ehhh!). Very happy with Jupiter as well. I am presenting you the three planets. 8" Dob, manual, asi462mc, UV/IR cut or IR pass filter, 2.5x TV powermate.

Nice sharp images.

Indeed. It looked quite prominent during the capture. I hope you get some clear skies so we can see it in high res 😉

Nice images. The inverted colour one looks great.