Wow what a night/morning. Humidity would have to have been 100% & had to setup the pedestal fan to stop my glasses from fogging up at the laptop. Helped to keep the heavy dew away as well. Just got Mars on the chip & it blinked out. Next minute the heavens opened up & down it came. I'm pretty quick these days at getting that roof shut. Only a few drops on the corrector thanks to the long dew shield I use. Eventually got a few captures in a few sucker holes, but none were as long as I wanted. Won't bore you with the rest of the comedy of errors but suffice to say this happened 5 X while I was out there. Wringing wet so time for a shower!
Damn I hate this place! Great seeing when it decides to come good but boy, it can be a test to your sanity, I'm crazy enough as it is now
Yes great reward for your anxiety output I would say
Now, forgive me for my deep sky imagers ignorance and I know we have our Ea Carina .... but how many images of two planets can a single imager take..? You planetary guys must get bored eventually surely?? To me it seems like fishing, you keep throwing the line out hoping for that elusive perfect fish night after night, same species of fish every time but you keep throwing the line back, in hope for a better one Not sure I could do it
The beauty of our diverse pastime I guess I know I enjoy the odd look and make involuntary rude proclamations (privately) at the big fish when you guys do catch'em though
Yes great reward for your anxiety output I would say
Now, forgive me for my deep sky imagers ignorance and I know we have our Ea Carina .... but how many images of two planets can a single imager take..? You planetary guys must get bored eventually surely?? To me it seems like fishing, you keep throwing the line out hoping for that elusive perfect fish night after night, same species of fish every time but you keep throwing the line back, in hope for a better one Not sure I could do it
The beauty of our diverse pastime I guess I know I enjoy the odd look and make involuntary rude proclamations (privately) at the big fish when you guys do catch'em though
Mike
Understandable thought, Mike. While there are thousands of different targets for DSI fans there are thousands of different aspects of the Solar System Family - every rotation of planet, rings, moons gives a virtual infinite set of possibilities so it works out about even stevens!
Understandable thought, Mike. While there are thousands of different targets for DSI fans there are thousands of different aspects of the Solar System Family - every rotation of planet, rings, moons gives a virtual infinite set of possibilities so it works out about even stevens!
Yes, I guess most planetary fishermen are hoping this doesn't happen to them ...well they'd still be happy, maybe just jealous it wasn't actually them
Hi Mike, dont think inserting smiley faces changes the thrust of your post.
Interesting and not very well informed comment Mike.
I suppose the difference is between making pretty pictures and capturing data of scientific importance.
PS: sorry Asi, but I felt the need to defend our craft.
Well I have to say I am rather gob smacked and disappointed really at this completely unecessary response mate
I was in no way denigrating the work you have mentioned here in your..?..almost soliloquy .
I was making what I thought was a very light-hearted observation and that's all, it was well intentioned and the emoticons are for exactly that.
Chill man, I love your work and that of other planetary imagers (I am using this emoticon in a clearly exaggerated way to show I love you but in a light-heared well intentioned way ).
Yeah, but the DSOs don't exactly change much, whereas Juipter, Saturn, the Sun and Mars are all pretty dynamic, so you get something new each time.
It's a bit like golf, I don't understand why people keep chipping away at it, but I keep dragging my sorry arse out to try and get a better planetary shot than last time.
But DAMN Asimov, how do you get such images, I was so happy with my Saturn image, especially since it was very cloudy, but then I saw yours....
I'll be out again tonight.
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Yes great reward for your anxiety output I would say
Now, forgive me for my deep sky imagers ignorance and I know we have our Ea Carina .... but how many images of two planets can a single imager take..? You planetary guys must get bored eventually surely?? To me it seems like fishing, you keep throwing the line out hoping for that elusive perfect fish night after night, same species of fish every time but you keep throwing the line back, in hope for a better one Not sure I could do it
The beauty of our diverse pastime I guess I know I enjoy the odd look and make involuntary rude proclamations (privately) at the big fish when you guys do catch'em though
Forget my fishing comments guys, we don't want this to turn this into a planetary imagers are more professional and better than deep sky imagers etc, that was 100% not my intention, misinterpretation of my humour just gets me in trouble sometimes.
Sorry Asi I didn't mean to divert your image thread, your planetary shots are great and I do not belittle or devalue them in anyway.
Chill man, I love your work and that of other planetary imagers (I am using this emoticon in a clearly exaggerated way to show I love you but in a light-heared well intentioned way ).
Mike[/QUOTE]
Appreciate the clarification Mike, I mistakenly took your post as caning planetary imaging in general. Put my over reaction down to another over 60's moment, Keep spreading the love brother.
Chill man, I love your work and that of other planetary imagers (I am using this emoticon in a clearly exaggerated way to show I love you but in a light-heared well intentioned way ).
Mike
Appreciate the clarification Mike, I mistakenly took your post as caning planetary imaging in general. Put my over reaction down to another over 60's moment, Keep spreading the love brother.
Mars continues to elude me, seeing was okay at about 4am this morning, but I still only got the merest hint of any feature on my blobby red stack.
Well done.
Found this data exceedingly difficult to work. Every Mars capture has clouded out sections in it, with me playing the gain slider like a damned fiddle again. Any resizing on any data coincided with lines & so had to rotate this one to kill them off. Plenty of other stuff went on to get this image to the best of my ability. All part & parcel in the black arts of planet imaging/processing at times
For what it's worth Mike. Nope. In 7 years of shooting planets, I've never been bored once
Beautiful images no matter how many times we see such images! What I love about the planetary stuff is that it is kind of here and now (Sun and Moon included) - sand storms, clouds, comet impacts, active regions, storms etc etc - we will never see the same thing again. Please do not get me wrong I love the deep sky stuff too but it is static in comparison.
.... but how many images of two planets can a single imager take..? You planetary guys must get bored eventually surely?? To me it seems like fishing, you keep throwing the line out hoping for that elusive perfect fish night after night, same species of fish every time but you keep throwing the line back, in hope for a better one 
(I am using this emoticon in a clearly exaggerated way to show I love you but in a light-heared well intentioned way 
