ASIGN Observatory II - Planetary first light.

[bloodhound31]

First light out of the new planetary camera.

This is just a screen grab from the live view without any calibration or real knowledge of what I am doing yet. Still trying to work out the capture program and settings. I am pretty impressed with the image scale though.

I had a bit of a play around but really need to read up on how to do this. The help file is not really helping yet. It's going to take a while for me to make sense of it all.

Can't wait to work it out! Camera: Imaging Source DBK618 on an ED 120mm refractor telescope with a 2.5x powermate and a 2x Barlow.

[Shiraz (Ray)]

good start with detail showing. now take an Avi of few thousand of these and stack them in Autostakkert to improve the SNR - should look very nice.

what exposure time was this? - the signal levels are a bit low, but quite usable with stacking. your final image scale shows ~5.3x magnification, you would get more signal by running at slightly lower magnification, but that would reduce image scale - assume you had the Barlow and Powermate stacked to get 5.3x?

[bloodhound31]

Originally Posted by Shiraz

good start with detail showing. now take an Avi of few thousand of these and stack them in Autostakkert to improve the SNR - should look very nice.

what exposure time was this? - the signal levels are a bit low, but quite usable with stacking. your final image scale shows ~5.3x magnification, you would get more signal by running at slightly lower magnification, but that would reduce image scale - assume you had the Barlow and Powermate stacked to get 5.3x?

Not sure of anything yet mate as I don't understand the program or how it all works. It's going to take me some time to nut it all out.

Yes, the Barlow and Powermate were stacked. The focus tube on the ED120 was almost fully extended.

[asimov (John)]

Not a bad start Bazza.