130PDS Planetary Imaging

[JohnSadlerAstro]

Could I be a noob and ask what an ADC is? Also thanks for the tips, I will try cropping down the capture size so I can get way more frames.  

John

[Stu]

ADC is short for Atmospheric Distortion Corrector John, which compensates for atmospheric CA. They can give good results, particularly for imaging low down planets.

https://www.firstlightoptics.com/zwo-accessories/zwo-125-atmospheric-dispersion-corrector-adc.html

[RolandKol]

Hi again,

On Friday night I tried to play with Saturn a bit... He was constantly hiding in the bushes, so all my exposures been interrupted.
Sadly.... But I do not think I can chop bushes even lower...

results are.... not what I was expecting...

(130PDS, x3 Barlow, ASI224MC)

 

Edited June 24, 2018 by RolandKol

[Susaron]

I have just seen this thread, here my contribution.

 

 

 

Edited June 26, 2018 by Susaron

[RolandKol]

14 hours ago, Susaron said:

I have just seen this thread, here my contribution.

 

I like this part the most  

what cameras have you used? I have a strange impression, the rest Full-scale Moon was done with a different cam.

[Susaron]

QHY168C and ASI385MC

[RolandKol]

6 minutes ago, Susaron said:

QHY168C and ASI385MC

I was struggling in between QHY168C and ASI1600MC.

Ended up with 1600MM mono and the empty wallet  
(filters and etc...).
 

the QHY168C image a bit confused me... what are these stripes? Never seen anything similar on my CANON and ASI224MC images...
my 1600MM arrived yesterday and I have not tested it on the Moon yet.

[RolandKol]

My first Moon in Narrowband
Ha=R, OIII=G, SII=B
My nappies are full of joy!!!

 

[RolandKol]

Last night tried again

It looks like I am not able to achieve my previous result anymore

[RolandKol]

Update

hehe, funny... 130PDS is like a switch army knife  

Almost

 

Edited October 25, 2022 by RolandKol

[Eruliaf]

My first attempts at Jupiter on the 130 - also on the getting started with imaging/130PDS topic as well, but more suited to this location.

3 x Barlow and ZWO 462MC - 3 min AVI file processed with AS3.

Also, my first ever mosaic (7 panel moon) - slightly clipped (lower right) where I did not overlap them, processed AS3 and stitched (with much room for improvement) in Gimp.

[RolandKol]

1 hour ago, Eruliaf said:

My first attempts at Jupiter on the 130 - also on the getting started with imaging/130PDS topic as well, but more suited to this location.

3 x Barlow and ZWO 462MC - 3 min AVI file processed with AS3.

 

Also, my first ever mosaic (7 panel moon) - slightly clipped (lower right) where I did not overlap them, processed AS3 and stitched (with much room for improvement) in Gimp.

 

Extremely nice mate! You even managed to shoot down all the Galileos!

P.S.
Try to slightly reduce green or simply use the AutoBalance on Registrax as per post below:

https://stargazerslounge.com/topic/313652-130pds-planetary-imaging/?do=findComment&comment=3440646

 

[AstroMuni]

On 31/10/2022 at 20:02, Eruliaf said:

Also, my first ever mosaic (7 panel moon) - slightly clipped (lower right) where I did not overlap them, processed AS3 and stitched (with much room for improvement) in Gimp.

Nice shot. How did you stitch using Gimp. I have always struggled.

 

[Eruliaf]

It is as painful as it sounds. You have to visually line up each image and then use masks to feather the joins. I am still very much a beginner on this - There are some tutorials on youtube which I followed (several times!) to get the end result. On the full size image, there are some visible lines, but I hope as my skills improve I can prevent this in the future.

[RolandKol]

As I recall Fitswork4 actually worked "quite OK", - it did leave some stiches behind, but not always, 

plus, I never tried to hide them using Gimp or similar software.

Maybe take a look.