Saturn 10 September 2023
Again a windy night, I’ve used the Powermate 5X to reach almost 9mt of focal length. … Read the rest
Again a windy night, I’ve used the Powermate 5X to reach almost 9mt of focal length. … Read the rest
Apparently a good night, maybe with too much wind from south.
The session started with some tests on the airy disk. The purpose of this first set of videos was to identify possible problems with the optical set, I’ve always … Read the rest
Very good night
… Read the restGood night at all, some veils.
Jupiter shows a lot of details, to notice the GRS on the left side just before run away.
During the night I was able to shoot an airy disk. It shows a slight misalignment.… Read the rest
A windy night with poor seeing. I was able to record only with the infrared filter.
Below a comparison between 2 images with the same setup. 20% of 100 sec video
I’ve found some “vintage” shoots, from 10 years ago.
… Read the restPoor seeing, but some results mainly on jupiter. All shoots was done with an IR filter to mitigate the seeing.
… Read the rest24 March 2022
M81 from a suburban sky:
Enewton2 40cm home made Newtonian
homemade fork mount,
cheaper coma corrector,
canon 700D fullspectrum,
L-pro filter,
Autoguide with PHD on Stellarvue AT1010.
11 Dark frames
17 Bias frames
68 x 2min @1600 … Read the rest