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Finally getting some planeray images I'm happy with
While seeing wasn't great from my home in inner-western Brisbane last night (13 April), it was nice and dark and clear, so I set up my 200 mm LX90 (GoTo Alt-Az mount) with ZWO ASI120MC (one-shot colour), and fired off a few 30-second video captures with FireCapture, and then stacked and sharpened in AutoStakkert.
Jupiter was nice and high - and the GRS came into view nicely later in the evening. Mars and Saturn were low in the sky, sitting in the glare of Brisbane City to the east (and directly over my roof), so I hope to get some better shots in a couple of months when they're a bit higher as well.
My best videos were taken without a Barlow - I just couldn't seem to get quite as sharp focus with my 2x Barlow. Maybe I need to try focussing with a Bahtinov mask on a nearby star before pointing at my target?
These are the best of last night's efforts - they may not rival Hubble (or other IIS members!), but I'm pretty happy with them.
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