First light with the scope now that we have moved in to our new home at Murrumbateman... yay!
It was very cold last night, I was working in subzero temps for most of the night, it was tricky keeping the scope at ambient even with the cooler running flat out.
The seeing was spectacular - almost certainly the best yet for this year. Gotta love these clear winter nights :-)
Here's the very first image of the night, taken at 7.30pm local time - just before I came in for dinner. I have a lot more images, but it takes a while to process them...
Details:
13.1" f/5.5 newtonian @ f/41
Dragonfly Express mono camera
40fps all channels
Processing: the usual 5 or 6 steps - apologies if this seems over processed to some :-)
top stuff bird, sorry i stuffed up re double moon transit, it is tonight!!!
fairly overprocessed though mate, i reckon the "straight outa stacking - no wavelets" is good! - sometimes even not even capturing it on to the computer is good, just plug the camera into the focusser...
fairly overprocessed though mate, i reckon the "straight outa stacking - no wavelets" is good! - sometimes even not even capturing it on to the computer is good, just plug the camera into the focusser...
I think this is your bet image yet. The processing and color look very natural and much closer to the gentle pastel shades you see in the Hubble shots, and the image scale is awesome. I wondered if you had processed any images from your Cairns Jupiter photography mission?
I think this is your bet image yet. The processing and color look very natural and much closer to the gentle pastel shades you see in the Hubble shots, and the image scale is awesome. I wondered if you had processed any images from your Cairns Jupiter photography mission?
Mark, after Damian decided not to come out this year we changed venues, and went to the Grampions in Victoria instead of cairns, it's somewhat closer :-)
The camp was great, and both Paul and DaveP got good images there. I got some good data as well, but we had a lot of rain, more than half the nights were clouded out :-(
I must admit, I would love to see your images in the seeing that Damien gets. Your images are really quite outstanding Anthony, and between yourself and those that are in your league, it all has to go very well for the Australasian planetary imaging scene. Young, and I repeat, young, Damien should keep an eye out for the Aussie attack....All this aside it is great to see, amateurs getting such amazing images of the planets.
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