On the night of 3rd/4th January I wanted to image Jupiter, finally attempt to catch the GRS sharply... Last time it was a bit fuzzy.
After looking at Jupiter through the eyepiece through various filter, I didn't see any detail, slight hint of banding, but very poor... Nothing like how it was a couple of weeks ago when even in the eyepiece Jupiter looked sharp with heaps of detail visible at 290x magnified.
I gave up on Jupiter and decided to do a quick experiment with my "guide scope"... The BOSMA 80mm refractor and M42 using a canon 7D for a wider field of view.
The following is the pic I managed... It was only a quick polar align, and it was unguided.
4 minutes of 30sec subs
2 minutes of 10sec subs and
5 minutes of 1 min subs
stacked in Nebulosity 3.
Contrast adjusted in PS.
I think that all in all the BOSMA is not a bad scope... Especially for the price.
Thanks Gents, next time I get chance to image, I'll align better, use the main sct as a guider and collect about a hours or subs of M42 though the 80mm refractor.
Will be interesting to see how much detail and faint nebulosity will be visible.
