Longer capture, more frames

[morls (Stephen)]

Tonight I took my time and set up properly, finalised the collimation and took some longer sequences (2500 to 15000 frames). I did this after reading some of the other posts in this forum - thanks to all for offering us beginners such good advice.
Cheers
Stephen

[foc (Ross)]

Beautiful late season captures. You are really giving your fine optics a good opportunity with your longer capture. I have often wondered why more people with 180 Maks do not post images. It is easy to see the plentiful detail on Jupiter with your mages and a close look at the rings shows how successful your Saturn images are. I look forward to when you start doing color images as all this detail will really stand out very attractively.

[Saturnine (Jeff)]

That's looking pretty sharp now , focus seems good with plenty of detail in Jupiters clouds and Saturns rings.

[morls (Stephen)]

Thanks Ross and Jeff.

[Saturnine (Jeff)]

Once you get the hang of RGB and produce colour images from your sequences then you'll be impressed. All good practice for next years planet season, which will include Mars as well as Jupiter and Saturn.

[Outcast (Carlton)]

Nice shots, plenty of detail & very sharp..

[morls (Stephen)]

Thanks Carlton.
Yep, RGB will be great, my ZWO mini filter wheel arrived this week. It'll be a while before I have the funds for filters, but that's ok. I'm going to start thinking about other targets soon, which should be interesting given the challenges of long focal length and melbourne skies. Hopefully there are some bright galaxies or similar I could chase. Any suggestions?

[gb44 (Glenn)]

NGC253 and 47Tuc are a must.

Cheers
GlennB