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Originally Posted by N1
Marc, excellent shot of my favourite planet (other than our own). She's gibbous right now so yep that's what it should look like. What scope was this with? I took one recently and it's similar. I'll post it later. I was stoked to just get the phase though, and after sunset which is unheard of around here. Visual in the dob was similar - no albedo features but pleasingly sharp view of the limb and slightly fuzzier terminator. Yes the IR is great for cutting through the seeing but the UV does yield a little albedo detail but you need excellent seeing as exposure times increase massively.
I think there is a resolution tradeoff to be considered with longer wavelength longpasses.
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Thanks Mirko.
Not even sure what the QE of the 462MC is under 400nm. Will give it a go next session. I have on order a 807nm IR pass from Astronomik. See if that increases contrast.
I'm still not convinced the limb is ok. Should be sharper.
Good fun to play with anyway.
