Well, here goes. This is my first picture of Jupiter, lovingly (and blindly) put together.
Long story short: I've had a Nexstar 6SE bought many years ago for visual only. It was used on a couple of camping trips with the then-young son, then put away and has gathered dust since.
A few months back I decided to give the hobby another go and bought a few preowned pieces here in IIS. The two key additions for this photo were an ASI224MC and a Baader cut filter. Then, with Jupiter high in the sky, I had a crack at planetary astrophotography.
Details are:
Bortle 7 skies
Exposures 27ms
Gain 204
Brightness 8
Top 20% of 3100 frames stacked
Workflow: ASICAP -> AS!3 -> RS wavelets -> Affinity Photo
TBH, I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing...just following YouTubes, but am blown away you can do this with such a basic scope. I'm totally hooked again
Any and all tips appreciated.
Cheers,
Paul