Some good conditions on and off for the last few days and after spending some time with the usual subjects thought I'd have a crack at some targets that don't get much attention...
I always wondered how my ASI294mc pro would handle the lucky imaging stuff so just kept it on the rig after some other messing around to see how it went. Quite surprised actually how good it handled the fast frame rates and with the bigger sensor was much easier finding targets in the daylight. Was planning to do a comparison with the 224mc last night but yeah those clouds come through earlier than expected!
Neptune 2/9: (first time attempt so wasn't quite sure how to approach this!! Triton showed easily on my preview shot but could not catch it on the AVI for some stupid reason
. Not confident those surface features are anything other than stacking artefacts...)
124sec
200ms
5fps
500 gain
best 20%
Jupiter 29/8:
60sec
9ms
96fps
300 gain
best 30%
Saturn 2/9: (Some weirdness in the rings going on maybe b/c too long a video..need to work out how to use winjupos i think!
180sec
15ms exp
66fps
400 gain
best 50%
Mercury 2/9 5.47pm: (First time attempt and had trouble trying to focus and got some ghosting the edges which reduced with contrast/brightness adjustment)
181sec
3ms
107fps (not bad for a DSO camera ay!)
300 gain
best 10%
Venus 1/9 5.54pm:
240sec
1ms
112fps (
)
250gain
best 10%
All on the 10" LX50 + 1.8x Barlow
ASI294mc PRO (cooled to -10 for the daylight shots)
Baader UV/IR cut filter
AS!3
Registax6
PSexpress
Anyways here you go - would love your comments/advice for next time!!
Cheers
Dave