Thanks for all your comments. Seeing has been pretty rotten for about a month so it's nice to be out amongst it again. Unfortunately it didn't last long, last night the seeing was back to below average.
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Good detail throughout the image, Mike.. I like it!
I've been meaning to ask how your images seem to hold good detail from the center right out to the edges... mine get noticeably poor towards the outer edges of the planet.. or is this just the effect of my 3.6m focal length vs your 7.5+m?
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Most likely it's just the seeing. and the fact that you didn't have tracking so there would've been some blurring. In poor seeing, my shots have very little detail at the limbs as well.
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Yeah Lesters image is a stunner, but all things being equal, the DMK wins.
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Comparing apples with apples, sure - the DMK is better than the DBK. But the question was, can the DBK produce results like that - and the answer is a most definite YES. However we also mustn't forget that Lester is using a cooled 14" meade and has several years experience doing this stuff.
Newbies at planetary imaging would find RGB imaging quite confusing unless you've done something like it before. The extra cost for filters and wheel etc is significant, too.
The cost of the DBK is so cheap these days it's almost what we were paying for ToUcam's 3 years ago. Even though the ToUcam's have also come down in price, the DBK would represent a fantastic starting camera (one-shot colour) for someone getting into planetary imaging and wants to learn the ropes. Or for someone who simply doesn't want the hassle, extra cost and extra time required for a monochrome camera.