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...
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...
Jupiter – Colour and Mono comparison
A quick post to illustrate the differences between processing data from the same night from a Toucam Pro and a QHY5v Mono taken through my f/6 Newtonian with a 2x Barlow. The left pic...
Jupiter in Glorious Mono with the QHY5v – 13/02/2014
As well as the moon, I targeted Jupiter last night. Jupiter is currently in a very favourable position – nice and high in the sky, and closer to Earth than its been for a...
Jupiter – 09/01/2014 – From Murky Capture to Reasonable Result
This is just a little experiment to see what I could get out of an extremely jumpy bit of footage I took through my 200p Newtonian with a 2x Barlow lens when up at...
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