Planetary imaging with 102/1300 Maksutov

[Balage]

Hi guys,

I am a newbie on this forum, this is my first topic here but I would like to show you my recent planetary imaging results. I started to catch the planets with a dedicated planetary camera last month but never thought that a small 4" Maksutov can show such small details. The equpment I used:

• SW 102/1300 Maksutov
• 2.25x Q-turret Barlow lens
• QHY5L-II color camera
• EQ-3 GOTO mount

All the images were taken on differend countrysides in Hungary. I hope you will like it

Also, please share your images taken with similar OTA, I'd like to learn some tricks from others as well  

 

Jupiter's 15 minutes of rotation. Captured with Firecapture, processed in AS!3, Registax and WinJUPOS (2020.08.21)

                                                                    

 

Saturn, 1 hours stacked with AS!3, processed in Registax (2020.09.05)

 

Mars, 3 hours of rotation. Captured with Firecapture, stacked with AS!3, processed in Registax. (2020.08.22)

 

Mars again, 5 minutes stacked in AS!3, processed in Registax. You can see also Olympus Mons and Arsia Mons next to the terminator  (2020.09.05)

 

 

Finally, a result of a Hungarian star party where I learned how to use properly my equipment  This time I borrowed an ADC for Saturn.

 

[Stargazer33]

Great set of images. I love your rotation videos. Very impressive. 

[Mr Spock]

For 102mm these are excellent!

[Tommohawk]

Fantastic set of images especially with such modest aperture - nice work!

[Kyle Allen]

Wow! Nice images. 👍

[Alien 13]

Great images, the small Maks are very sharp...

Alan

[CraigT82]

Fantastic work! The little mak punches well above it's size in skilled hands.

[callisto]

Nice 3D feel on Jupiter....Excellent 👍

 

Mark