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Old 30-05-2020, 11:54 PM
Mickoid (Michael)
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First for the season

Grabbed this around 2.30am this morning. Testing out my newly acquired manual filter wheel. Beats taking the camera out of the focuser every time I had to change the filter! This was a short sequence of LRGB taken with my guide camera - the ZWOASI120MM. The seeing was poor and my best 1 minute take was with the Luminance filter which fortunately added the majority of the detail to the image. Most of the time Jupiter was wobbling like a jelly fish so I wasn't expecting much but I got enough of an idea to know how things will work when the planets near opposition.

Taken with an 8 inch f5 Newtonian on an old EQ5 RA driven mount. Eyepiece projection with a 6mm eyepiece stuck with tape to a 2X Barlow.

P.S. I've added a cropped version as it looked a little small on screen. and Saturn taken on the same night with same set up.
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Last edited by Mickoid; 01-06-2020 at 08:45 PM. Reason: Add picture
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