My best Venus yet(4x imagemate combined with 2x barlow)

[mpeniak]

First image is stacked from around 1500 frames. I had crazy idea to combine 4x imagemate with 2x barlow and it did work! Hence the image is not resampled but it is magnified more than the bottom one. I think I will be able to use this combination on very bright objects only though .

<img src=http://iseestars.net/image/9238/large/image.jpg alt=ISEE STARS Image>

<img src=http://iseestars.net/image/9237/large/image.jpg alt=ISEE STARS Image>

[jonifive]

Wow...that is excellent. I tried this last night but she was so bright and I don't as yet have a dew shield, so all I got was a blur!!!

Lovely image.

[geppetto]

Excellent..

Love Venus images, always moody

[maroon bells]

Good stuff.

Have you tried using a moon filter? It seems to improve my visual view of the planet.

[SteelRat]

Flippin marvelous shot 8) Good stuff Martin

[centroid]

Nice result Martin, well done!!

Dave

[Cloudwatcher]

Clever! Think your right about 'bright stuff only' though.

Small FOV with that setup I imagine,any probs' with achieving focus?

[mpeniak]

Good stuff.

Have you tried using a moon filter? It seems to improve my visual view of the planet.

No I haven't. I just used IR-cut filter.

Martin

[mpeniak]

Clever! Think your right about 'bright stuff only' though.

Small FOV with that setup I imagine,any probs' with achieving focus?

Did not really find it difficult to focus. However what I found difficult was keeping Venus in the field of view. I don't have RA motor and I did only rough polar aligment. I set the scope during the day so I just guessed where the polar star was

Martin

[barkis]

Great image Martin, you are becoming expert at getting this moody lady to sit still for you.

Ron.

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Marvellous shot Martin, lovely image scale.

Kaptain Klevtsov

[GazOC]

Very impressive, I can only imagine how hard it was to keep that first shot in FOV wilth no motor.

[Akyra]

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice

[beamish]

that's a cracking pair!! ( of shots... oooer missis)

well done Martin

karlo