And the next night/morning. Sept 24/25

[WestCoastCannuck]

Was an epic weekend for me and the moon.  Managed two great nights of observing and imaging.   Clouds moved in last night...  but can't have everything.

 

On this night I setup about midnight with the moon about 30 degrees, and closed up shop about 3AM - luna still not at meridian yet.  Views were absolutely stunning through my binos on the 140 and single eyeball views on both the 200mm and 140.    Was shooting through a light mist, but seeing was supporting close efforts.    Spent more time just viewing before closing up shop.

 

First up, my full disc single panel shot with APM140 and 183MM camera.   I expect the 140 will get more of a workout imaging wise again in the future, but I am still getting my HiRez skillz fine tuned with the Vixen....  so its getting the bulk of my imaging time right now.   Really enjoying going for the max I can do!

 

After a couple clips like the one above,  I spent the rest of my imaging time with the Vixen and 290MM camera.    All the following images were shot with a Vixen VMC200L, a Seibert Optics 1.5X Telecentric barlow, a Baader 610nm red narrowband and ZWO ASI 290MM  camera.  Clips were all 10,000 frames, the files pre-sorted while I slept in PIPP and the best 520 frames saved.   I then stacked 50%, 40%, 30% and 20% of those in AutoStakkert!3.   I went with processing the 40% stacks.    Wavelets and deconvolution in Astra Image.  This next image is a terminator mosaic of 8 panels.    

 

These next ones are other single captures that show off features and details perhaps better than the mosaic because I could fine tune processing to the area.

 

 

 

Hope you enjoyed!   I sure enjoyed doing all this work.   The viewing was even better!

 

 

Clear skies!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 26, 2021 by WestCoastCannuck

[neil phillips]

Quality as always Sounds like you had a great time. Setup the 10 last night. clouds came, pulled it all back in lol. Fun times. If you need to keep fit

[WestCoastCannuck]

8 hours ago, neil phillips said:

Quality as always Sounds like you had a great time. Setup the 10 last night. clouds came, pulled it all back in lol. Fun times. If you need to keep fit

I know all about the wasted workout.  haha.  We have similar climates.   I had a fabulous time.  Seeing was wobbly, but lots of sharp moments and luckily not too wobbly for AS!3 to find all the matching bits!   AFter running PIPP while sleeping for a quality cull, I then ran every (smaller) file through PIPP again and sorted with FOV.    I think I must always do this frankly.   My overworked mount bounces around more than most I am sure.  I spent a fair bit of time viewing actually...... snapped a pic of setup truly a great night for viewing.   Was fabulous.  The eyepieces on my binos had first light, I just got them in the post that day.    Gave a great full disc view on the APM.

Edited September 27, 2021 by WestCoastCannuck

[neil phillips]

8 hours ago, WestCoastCannuck said:

I know all about the wasted workout.  haha.  We have similar climates.   I had a fabulous time.  Seeing was wobbly, but lots of sharp moments and luckily not too wobbly for AS!3 to find all the matching bits!   AFter running PIPP while sleeping for a quality cull, I then ran every (smaller) file through PIPP again and sorted with FOV.    I think I must always do this frankly.   My overworked mount bounces around more than most I am sure.  I spent a fair bit of time viewing actually...... snapped a pic of setup truly a great night for viewing.   Was fabulous.  The eyepieces on my binos had first light, I just got them in the post that day.    Gave a great full disc view on the APM.

Lovely setup Looks awsome.

[Alkaid]

The mosaic is one of the finest and sharpest I've seen - hats off Sir!

[WestCoastCannuck]

21 hours ago, Alkaid said:

The mosaic is one of the finest and sharpest I've seen - hats off Sir!

Thanks much Steve!!