Posidonius, Messier A&B and Jupiter - Mewlon 180 & DMK

[Dennis]

Hello,

Last night I took the opportunity to re-acquaint myself with the DMK21AF04.AS and Mewlon 180 whilst eyeballing the Moon/Antares/M4 conjunction. Gee, it doesn’t take long to become rusty and get out of practice!

The Moon was almost full so I have exaggerated the processing on Posidonius and Messier A&B to try to bring some life into them. I also pointed the ‘scope at Jupiter which looked quite spectacular in the moments of good seeing.

I haven’t tried the colour filter wheel with the DMK yet, so unfortunately, Jove is in B&W only. I also noticed that although the ‘scope was collimated for visual use, when I checked a defocused star on the Notebook computer using the DMK, it was slightly out of collimation? Some work to be done yet in investigating this.

Cheers

Dennis

[RB (Andrew)]

I love the second one (Messier A&B ) especially Dennis !
A very interesting image.

Lovely work on all three.
I know what you mean about getting out of practice easily.
Can't wait to get back into it too.

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Nicely done Dennis.

I'm looking forward to giving Jupiter a bit of a shove now that it is getting up above the tree line at a respectable hour.

[iceman (Mike)]

Excellent stuff Dennis, great to see you imaging again.

[Dennis]

Thanks guys. The Mewlon 180 is such a sweet “grab and go” scope compared to the weight and size of the C9.25 that I tend to favour it for a quick set up these days. Also, there is no corrector plate to dew up.

At the risk of sounding a bit like a spoilt brat, there is a major down side to having multiple ‘scopes and several sensors.

• Should I image Lunar, Planetary, Wide Field or DSO?
• Do I use the Vixen 4”, C9.25, M180 or WO 80?
• Should I attach the ST7, DMK or DSLR?

A case of being a Jack of all trades and master of none!

Cheers

Dennis

[Ric]

Lovely images Dennis. It sound like you have a bit of a dilemma as to which camera and which scope.

Cheers

[davidpretorius]

a lovely set of images.........yay dennis!

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Maybe you should build yourself an observatory where the pool is Dennis. If you made it big enough you would have room to have a custom setup for each situation. Then you could run them all at the same time

[ving (David)]

very nice dennis

[h0ughy (David)]

great images Dennis, and I like paul's suggestion........ just no finances to cover it!!

[matt]

Lovely images, Dennis.

As Mike has said, nice to see you imaging again

[John K]

Great work Dennis, excellent stuff!!