Planetary fun

that_guy (Tony) · #1 10-04-2018, 07:04 AM

what a night! All night 0 clouds or wind! I've yet to sleep (desperately need to). While I haven't fully sorted through some of the DSO stuff (mostly experimenting with HaRGB without a real purpose) I took some nice quick frames of Jupiter, Saturn and the moon with the ASI290MC. I didn't have the USB3.0 cable but still getting around 130 FPS with ROI settings. I'm impressed at how much I can get out of the refractor with just a cheap GSO 2.5x barlow! Captured in Sharpcap and stacked in Registax with processing in photoshop.

Not much thought went in to these captures, something to pass the time while I was capturing darks

PKay (Peter) · #2 10-04-2018, 07:26 AM

For not much thought, they are really good images.

I have put in ten times that effort and not even come close.

How often do we get skies that clear?

Well done Tony

h0ughy (David) · #3 10-04-2018, 07:55 AM

Nice grab

Atmos (Colin) · #4 10-04-2018, 08:06 AM

For an after thought they're very nicely captured

xelasnave · #5 10-04-2018, 10:32 AM

Very impressive.
Alex

CesnaGirl · #6 10-04-2018, 04:37 PM

Those are great shots. What size telescope is needed to get that much detail in Saturn or Jupiter? I was impressed to see the red dot there.

that_guy (Tony) · #7 10-04-2018, 05:02 PM

I was lucky enough to have such great seeing to get these much detail. Ideally, you'd want as much aperture as possible as well as having a long enough focal length. I'm using a 5" refractor which isn't ideal for planetary imaging but it does ok aha. Reflectors are recommended for planets since you cant really beat them in terms of value for aperture. This was taken at around 2500mm focal length with a very small sensor.

raymo · #8 11-04-2018, 12:27 AM

I agree with Alex, impressive. By chance I have an old close up of the same crater, but inverted.
raymo