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Jupiter, Saturn and Mars with TEC140 and Altair GPCam3 290c - 26-07-20


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First night of imaging with my new planetary cam, an Altair GPCam3 290c, telescope was a TEC140 with a 2.5x barlow.  Each picture is the best 15% of frames from around 1 minute, 2500 frame stacks.  Stacked in Autostakkert with wavelets sharpening and colour balance in Registax.  Seems a really versatile camera as I was able to use the same camera and scope to do some DSO live stacking  (pictures in the EAA observations section). Thanks for looking.

Jupiter with Callisto shadow transit

 

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Saturn

 

 

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Mars

 

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1 hour ago, jonathancd said:

First night of imaging with my new planetary cam, an Altair GPCam3 290c, telescope was a TEC140 with a 2.5x barlow.  Each picture is the best 15% of frames from around 1 minute, 2500 frame stacks.  Stacked in Autostakkert with wavelets sharpening and colour balance in Registax.  Seems a really versatile camera as I was able to use the same camera and scope to do some DSO live stacking  (pictures in the EAA observations section). Thanks for looking.

Jupiter with Callisto shadow transit

 

473363761_Jupiter-26-07-20.thumb.jpg.fffacf9d131a2e89e77a2144a2b7fcad.jpg

 

Saturn

 

 

1591944589_Saturn-26-07-20.jpg.b479b469520f40811d05b68aef4a3563.jpg

Mars

 

1925500790_Mars-26-07-20.thumb.jpg.18b3ff729af5d4741552bda6890b4c64.jpg

 

 

Beautiful captures 

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Hello,

I live in NE London (Walthamstow) under Bortle 8 skies though these do not cause too much of a problem when imaging the brighter planets thankfully!  Jupiter and Saturn are still very low at the moment (about 16 degrees above the horizon at their highest) so looking forward to them getting higher and better for imaging over the next few years.  Mars will be good though in October and will reach around 40 degrees at opposition. 

Yes it is a colour camera.  It is an Altair Astro GPCam3 290c.  the ZWO ASI 290c is more or less the same camera.

thanks for the positive comments.

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On 11/09/2020 at 10:43, WarwickshireAstro said:

Great images just received my GpCam3 as well. Had a quick test run the other night on Jupiter just to acclimatise to the planetary imaging process. 
 

Did you leave the UV/IR filter on?

What gain and exposure did you go for?

 

Many thanks

 

Dan

Dan,  I have been keeping the gain low for these planetary images (around 200 in Sharpcap) and a shutter speed that gives me around 40 frames a second.

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