Kon Posted August 11 Share Posted August 11 (edited) A quick session on Venus from this afternoon. This is my first Venus for 2024. I am looking forward to 2025 when it will be much larger. The seeing was awful and the IR filter did not help much. I did not attempt any UV. Skywatcher 300P Flextube goto, asi462mm, IR pass, 2.5xTV powermate. Resized 125%. Edited August 11 by Kon 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigT82 Posted August 11 Share Posted August 11 Nice clear phase there Kostas, what is the apparent diameter at the moment? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kon Posted August 11 Author Share Posted August 11 1 minute ago, CraigT82 said: Nice clear phase there Kostas, what is the apparent diameter at the moment? Thanks Craig. It is currently 95%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bosun21 Posted August 11 Share Posted August 11 Nice image despite the poor seeing Kostas. Venus is always hidden from my observing area unfortunately. I'm going to have another go on Saturn tonight i think. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kon Posted August 11 Author Share Posted August 11 4 minutes ago, bosun21 said: Nice image despite the poor seeing Kostas. Venus is always hidden from my observing area unfortunately. I'm going to have another go on Saturn tonight i think. Thanks Ian. I was thinking the same for tonight too, but I think seeing should be better on Tuesday morning, less windy. Looking forward to what you get. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bosun21 Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 9 hours ago, Kon said: Thanks Ian. I was thinking the same for tonight too, but I think seeing should be better on Tuesday morning, less windy. Looking forward to what you get. I saw what you meant by less windy. It was just as bad here with Saturn bouncing around screen and sometimes off of it!. I persevered and captured a few shorter 60 second SER's due to this. I'll get around to processing them later and we'll see if PIP can do its thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kon Posted August 12 Author Share Posted August 12 33 minutes ago, bosun21 said: I saw what you meant by less windy. It was just as bad here with Saturn bouncing around screen and sometimes off of it!. I persevered and captured a few shorter 60 second SER's due to this. I'll get around to processing them later and we'll see if PIP can do its thing. I didn't bother to get out in the end. Yes PIPP should sort it. I hope your perseverance paid off. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bosun21 Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 13 hours ago, Kon said: I didn't bother to get out in the end. Yes PIPP should sort it. I hope your perseverance paid off. I abandoned the processing after looking at the quality graphs in AS4. The constant bouncing around with the wind is definitely not conducive to planetary imaging, or any imaging in fact. I would have been better using the 180 Mak on my AZ-EQ6. If it's not the Jetstream it's the damned wind. Why do we even do this Kostas? 😂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kon Posted August 13 Author Share Posted August 13 11 hours ago, bosun21 said: I abandoned the processing after looking at the quality graphs in AS4. The constant bouncing around with the wind is definitely not conducive to planetary imaging, or any imaging in fact. I would have been better using the 180 Mak on my AZ-EQ6. If it's not the Jetstream it's the damned wind. Why do we even do this Kostas? 😂 That sucks! I seriously don't know why we do it 🤣. I was up 230am this morning to be greeted by mushy planets. I will post them later. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterStudz Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 23 minutes ago, Kon said: That sucks! I seriously don't know why we do it 🤣. I was up 230am this morning to be greeted by mushy planets. I will post them later. Although I don’t do this kind of imagining I know the answer, well, from my perspective. If it was easy everyone would be doing it. It’s fun because it’s not easy. Requires patience, takes a lot of time, work and effort - activities like this are often fun and rewarding. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Presland Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 On 13/08/2024 at 09:37, Kon said: That sucks! I seriously don't know why we do it 🤣. I was up 230am this morning to be greeted by mushy planets. I will post them later. Very depressing when this happens, unfortunately it is fairly regular occurrence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Presland Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 Very nicely captured Kon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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