Lunar Capture Shenanigans – 23/02/2018
A reasonably clear night (with some intermittent cloud, but nicely transparent in between), prompted me to get the 8″ LX90ACF out, and slap the ZWO ASI120MC in the back and capture some photons reflected...
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Jupiter – Captured 21st-24th May 2017
This is a set of three shots of Jupiter captured in May 2017. All consist of the best 4000 of 8000 frames captured in Firecapture with my ASI120MC planetary camera through the 8″ LX90ACF...
My First Solar Images, and How I Got Them…
Today, I had an opportunity to go out and attempt my first solar imaging session. A couple of months ago I constructed a Baader Solar film filter for the objective end of my Starwave...
A Triplet of Worlds – Jupiter, Saturn and Mars on Show – 17/05/2014
On 17th May 2014, SEKAS (South East Kent Astronomical Society – www.sekas.co.uk), the astro society of which I am a member, held a public observing session at Western Heights in Dover. It was an...
Saturn and Mars – 14/05/2014
Had a pretty good planetary imaging session last night. I managed to grab my first Saturn of the year. Despite still being fairly low down in the sky at the time it was visible to...
Jupiter and Io – 15/04/2014: The King of the Solar System
On 15th April, I grabbed a new shot of Jupiter with the ASI120MC, which as surpassed everything I’ve ever done on this amazing planet up until now. This really shows the difference that better...
First Light With a New Planetary Camera: The ZWO ASI120MC on Mars and Jupiter – 13/04/2014
I’ve just become the owner of a new planetary camera – a ZW Optics ASI120MC. This post is the fruits of my first efforts with it. Unfotunately, on a night of terrible seeing (the...
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