Just an early morning Jupiter, with my usual planetary gear, HEQ5, N250/1200, TSO ADC, ASI 224MC (cooled), home observatory, mountpusher Acceptable seeing but poor transparency.
Jupiter 2020-05-18
NGC 5746
NGC 5746
In today’s astrophotography world there is this tendency to make stuff “internet-beautiful”: nice(?) colors, but oversaturated, sharp, applying HDR three times too many and so on. However, I like the images with a feeling of retro, with that of the pioneers, when it wasn’t about checking out a google image and then pressing buttons with a gear worth a fortune. When there was a sense of new, exploration, experimentation, challenge. Having written a photo planning software is not the best approach perhaps, but the city sky, the balcony’s narrow field of view, and the lack of alignment gave enough challenges for this one.
HEQ5, N250/1200, UHC, ASI 178MM
SN 2020jfo in M61
Observing from my balcony, I managed to dig out the M61 galaxy featuring the SN 2020jfo supernova. I used the HEQ5 + N250/1200 with the ASI 178MM and an UHC filter. (tovább…)
Jupiter and Saturn, 2020-05-13
Using the instruments in the balcony observatory, HEQ5, N250/1200, TSO ADC, ASI 224MC (cooled), home observatory, mountpusher, I imaged Jupiter and Saturn, with HD188546 photobombing the jovial family.
Venus 2020-05-08
Venus, Oiii and CaK
I used my usual Venus gear: EQ3 with the added ST4 port, N150/750, filterwheel, OIII + VenusU and CaK, ASI 178MM cooled.
(tovább…)
Vénusz, Jupiter, Szaturnusz 2020-05-07-08
OIII-CaK bicolor
Venus: EQ3, soapbox, N150/750, CaK + OIII, ASI 178MM c
Jupiter, Saturn: balcony-observatory, HEQ5, soapbox, N250/1200, ADC, ASI 224MC c
Venus 2020-05-02
Venus, full spectrum
This time I used a very modest setup: the sky wasn’t promising, and indeed, the seeing was quite bad. So I put together the MC102/1300 with a barlow and an ASI 120 MM with an UV/IR cut, to capture Venus. Otherwise the unguided EQ3 did its job, given the lower magnification.
Venus 2020-04-22 and 23
The gear is the same, but I deployed a new workflow: I start the editing on the raw stack, before applying any wavelets. The reason for this is that Venus has a nasty habit of its edge going easily overexposed. The pictures are through the Venus U and the Ca K-line filters, combined with the OIII filter.
2020-04-22. Venus U and OIII
2020-04-23 CaK and OIII
So the steps:
Venus 2020-04-20
Same gear, this time I pushed ten minutes into the CaK and also at around ten into the OIII, though for the latter without a particular reason (I forgot to press stop).
Venus 2020-04-17
Venus in CaK and Oiii
The gear, as usual, was the N150/750 on a modded EQ3 autoguided by the soapbox project. As a camera, it was the modded-to-be-cooled ASI178MM, with an automated, originally manual filter wheel. I used the OIII and the CaK filter this time, to create to bicolor combo.
