Plato to Copernicus

[Yawning Angel]

During the evening of the 17th I was noodling about with some Jupiter imagine, with a side excursion to the Moon and Mars. This is an accidental mosaic assembled from my random snapping away at interesting features - I only noticed opportunity when I processed them as a batch

I've been very disappointed with the C8 for quite a while, as it gave very soft images no matter how I tweaked the collimation - and then I replaced the Bob's Knobs with hex cap bolts. Absolutely night and day the difference. It actually holds alignment from night to night!

Oh, and the Celestron dew heater rings work really well and are very tidy 👍

Celestron C8 / x2 Powermate / QHY5iii462c + IR/UV cut

[Kon]

Excellent mosaic with lovely details and some of the colours are coming through nicely!

[Yawning Angel]

40 minutes ago, Kon said:

Excellent mosaic with lovely details and some of the colours are coming through nicely!

Cheers! I was quite happy with the colours in this: I've not previously got the same balance from OSC that I could get with mono

[neil phillips]

Nice capture. The higher the FL the odder the colours seem to come out I've found. I am working a stack of this area as we speak from the past. Mono though 

[TheThing]

Lovely crisp image.  How many panes did you stitch together?

[Yawning Angel]

4 hours ago, TheThing said:

Lovely crisp image.  How many panes did you stitch together?

Thank you! I think there were 6 contiguous panels that could be combined