Jupiter from tonight (18 Nov 2012)

[BuzzBomb]

As it finally cleared here and I got a night off from decorating, I was able to have my first outing with my new (to me) 105mm f13 Mak and a QHY5v cam. Both unused by me before tonight, apart from a quick test on a pylon on Friday pm to familiarise myself with everything.

Took a few AVis of Jupiter, not expecting much - especially considering the lackluster results I had with a SPC900 and my 152mm f5 Newt.

I must say, I am very pleasantly surprised! Still not up to the excellent levels of some who post here, but another step in the right direction and, for a first time with 'new' equipment, pretty good.

105mm f13 Mak and QHY5v (qpprox 7fps)

With a 2x Tal Barlow at f26 (approx 17fps)

Any comments gratefully received.

[JamesF]

f/26 is not a bad focal ratio to be imaging at, but I'd expect the QHY5v to produce a better image. How did you rate the seeing at the time? I wonder if more gain would help, and perhaps a faster frame rate.

Given total unfamiliarity with the kit though I don't think you should be disappointed with your first results.

James

[BuzzBomb]

Thanks James.

The seeing wasn't great - plenty of dew in the and Jupiter going 'fuzzy' frequently.

The QHY5 seems to automatically select a frame. At one point it was taking 2fps at f13!

You are spot on with the gain though - more experimentation needed. Although the image was quite bright on screen, it is very dark on the recorded AVi. I had to rack the contrast right up in Registack.

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[Ultrapenguin]

I looked out last night and I am not that far away from Buzz and decided it was not even worth setting up, I reakon good though those images are Buzz you will be blown away by what your equipment can do in good seeing. Everything was very misty/foggy last night even when it cleared there was a misty halo around the moon for me a sure fire indicator of mist/murky AVI's.

NIce pics though!

[BuzzBomb]

Thank you Ultrapenguin (my favorite bird by the by).

Whereabouts are you?

I was so excited about getting to my new equipment, I didn't really consider the seeing until I had Joop on screen!

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[BuzzBomb]

Having been re-working my data and had better success stacking with AS!2 then processing the wavelets in Registax6.

Hopefully these will be better?

Jupiter 18-11-12_conv_Drizzle15_jupiter_00001-PART1_g3_b3_ap1.tif

The larger images have one of the moons visible at about 4 o'clock, which I'd not noticed bfore.

Might try an animation on this 3, albeit small!

[eli71]

Great pictures, and a lot of improvement with the last ones.

[BuzzBomb]

Just a few more. Ran thru PIPP first, then stacked in AS!2 and didn't seem to need any wavelets in R6, so just left as they are! Might have a fiddle with wavelets tomorrow...

[JamesF]

I think those are pretty good.

James

[BuzzBomb]

Thanks James and thanks to everyone for your kind posts.

Never used PIPP before today, really pleased with how it works out.

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