Clear night in Sydney tonight but mostly awful conditions for planetary viewing and imaging (literally such bad transparency I kept on checking if clouds had come over).
There was however a couple of moments of better conditions, and I used this to do some initial (first time for me) test runs on some mono planetary imaging - using my asi290mm mini guide cam and RGB, IR685 filters in a drawer. I'm yet to process them or even work out how i'm going to combine them, but just for interest I ran the IR685 shot as it looked much cleaner on the screen than anything else I got this evening. Obviously IR is not affected by seeing so much...the blue channel I could hardly even resolve the Cassini division!
So here's what I've got so far, stacked 30% of 18k frames from a 3min AVI captured in ASICAP with the C14, ZWO ADC & asi290mm.
Side note - don't forget to take off your UV/IR cut filter when shooting with a IR Pass filter - took me several minutes to work out why i wasn't getting much signal through...
