Mars / Saturn from 25 May qhy163m

[rustigsmed]

hi all,

here are some snaps from friday night.

i wasn't planning on planetary but was having issues with my main setup.

these were taken with a qhy163 mono, i dont have a filter wheel but use a filter draw, so i was manually changing filters in the true sense. i also couldn't attach my 5x powermate to the qhy163 but managed to get a 2" 2x barlow to attach. i was playing around with the settings quite a bit, but mostly i believe fps were 90-130 depending on the ROI setting.

these were taken in sharp cap (fire capture packed it in on the night :shrug:

i tried winjupos on a couple of these, it introduced issues on the edging, i guess i didnt have it lined up properly in the settings.

anyway, i missed jupiter (behind the trees) by the time i got it working which is unfortunate as in the eyepiece it looked amazing.

well i dont think i need a dedicated planetary cam for the mars opposition looks like the qhy163 goes ok. definitely my best saturn / mars pics. so pretty happy. :thumbsup:

bigger ones https://www.flickr.com/photos/80336656@N07/41482428795/in/dateposted-public/

cheers


russ

[p1taylor]

Those are very good Russ.

peter

[Sebbie]

Nice efforts Russell, try reducing LD value at WinJUPOS derotation step.. 0.90 works well for me (suppressing dark limb artefacts).

Rgds,
Seb

[rustigsmed]

thanks Peter :)



thanks very much for the tip Seb, i greatly appreciate it.

I had another go at Mars (you are right my LD value was at 1.00) and lowering fixed the limb pixels :thumbsup:

Here is a quick reprocess (and i added some extra sharpening now i didn't have weird pixelation). not sure if i pushed it a bit far or not - but it feels better.

less compressed version https://www.flickr.com/photos/80336656@N07/28555618308/in/dateposted-public/lightbox/


cheers

Russ

[astronobob]

Nice ones, Russel, the last two on 1st post are grouse, liking the Mars color, and the cleaner Saturn there :thumbsup: :thumbsup: