Hey all
Here's my
first image out of my new setup - the 12" GSO on the EQ6, taken this morning at about 5:40am or so.
My alignment wasn't accurate enough for the 5x powermate (too much drifting and correction required), and I wanted to get
something without playing around with drift aligning. The seeing was quite good and Jupiter was getting higher.
So I used the 3x barlow, in the 12" newt.
This is just one sample out of 4 avi's i've done a rough look at. There's still 3 more avi's I haven't touched yet.
Very happy with the detail, especially for the shorter focal length. The GRS looks very nice, and there's a red bar to the left of it. It looks like there's a nice white spot in the NEB too.
The overnight temperatures were quite warm which helped the mirror reach close to ambient too, I reckon.. although I haven't got any temperature sensors on this beast yet.
I've only processed this on the laptop, will have another go when I look at the other avi's on the proper LCD on Monday.
Unfortunately the green channel is slightly overexposed to the south of the SEB
And I stuffed up the codec when recording, so it ended up as 720x480 (!?) so I had to resize it to 640x480 in virtualdub while saving as BMP's.
15 fps, 1/15s exposure. 45 seconds on each channel. 330 frames stacked on each channel.
Thanks for lookng. I like what the future holds for this 12"!