[ahmed_haider (Ahmed)]

I finally managed to capture Jupiter and Saturn with my big dobsonian last night.
Luckily the smoke haze that had plagued us in Sydney for the last few days had blown off (atleast in my area) and I was able to get some nice frames of Saturn. Jupiter is too low on the horizon to get sharp pictures but I tried anyway.

Equipment:
12 inch SKywatcher dobsonian with Synscan, FL 1500mm
Televue 2.5x powermate (1.25 inch), which brought the FL to approximately 3750mm
ZWO ASI585MC planetary camera, it has small pixels 2.9 micrometers but generous sized chip (for a planetary camera that is) at 6mm x 11mm

Aquisition software: Sharpcap pro
Stacking: AutoStakkert
Wavelets and color balancing etc. Registax 6

This was my first time trying planetary astrophotography with the Skywatcher dobsonian, and it's really good for that purpose in my opinion. It's easy to setup and a breeze to use plus the optics are excellent. The powermate is an excellent addition.

Thanks for looking!