Hi Everyone,
Well it finally happened, after 4 days of cloudy nights, the clouds broke and blew away last night and I lugged R2 out to the back near the pool and was astounded at the brightness and resolution of everything
After an hour or so of visual observing I noticed Saturn had cleared the rooftops and I thought I might try some Juggling Photography
on the new dob!
I could even see the moons of Saturn! One of them I even "tracked" for about 10 mins thinking it was Saturn and THEN realised it was Titan!
So.... here it is, the first light for the new scope, I hope you like it. Comments are welcome.
Details:
Scope: 305cm Skywatcher Flex Dob, FL = 1500mm
Camera: Philips Toucam Pro II @ Prime Focus
Magnification: 2.5x APO GSO Barlow
Frames: 222 stacked in Registax from 30 secs captured at 30 fps
Time: 15:02 UTC (2:02am AEST)
Processing: LE deconvolution and Wavelets applied in Astra Image Pro
I have a few more jumpy ones and others smoothly transiting the camera diagonal that I am going to process so there may be more coming. I am not too sure about the final image as its been a while and I am a bit out of practice, so apologies if its too much or if I have overcooked it in the processing. Also, collimation is not exactly spot on, so I am looking into sorting this out, and a few dust bunnies on the camera CCD sensor meant I had to drop a few frames off each pass, still, it
was my first time....
Thanks for looking.
Cheers
Chris