Using the MC102/1300 and the TS-Optics 76/342 TS76EDPH, mountpusher, EQ3-mod, with the ASI 178MM (cooled) and ASI 462MC (cooled) with various accessories, barlows and the Baader K-Line Filter 1.25″ (double stacked) for Venus, I obtained the following images. Venus’s featureless disk is artificially generated, to simulate the visual part of the spectrum, represented as orange in the false color, vs the cyan of the CaK.
Using the ASI 178MM (cooled) and ASI 462MC (cooled), with various barlow setups, for Venus the Baader K-Line Filter 1.25″ (double stacked), TS-Optics 76/342 TS76EDPH, mountpusher, EQ3-mod, I observed Venus, Jupiter and Saturn, as best as possible with the rather modest setup and inadequate ersatzobservatory, which isn’t even an observatory, just a good patch of sky and an open window. Still, I got maybe some detail on Venus, Jupiter’s clouds with Io’s shadow and Io, and Saturn with the Cassini gap, give or take. Thank you, real estate maffia, thank you.
Jupiter and Io
ASI 178MM (cooled), Baader K-Line Filter 1.25″ (double stacked), TS-Optics 76/342 TS76EDPH, mountpusher, EQ3-mod
ASI 178MM (cooled), Baader K-Line Filter 1.25″ (double stacked), TS-Optics 76/342 TS76EDPH, mountpusher, EQ3-mod
ASI 178MM (cooled), Baader K-Line Filter 1.25″ (double stacked), TS-Optics 76/342 TS76EDPH, mountpusher, EQ3-mod
ASI 178MM (cooled), Baader K-Line Filter 1.25″ (double stacked), TS-Optics 76/342 TS76EDPH, mountpusher, EQ3-mod
ASI 178MM (cooled), B600, Lunt LS60T Ha, mountpusher, EQ3-mod with the 0.5x reducer
Using the ASI 178MM (cooled), Baader K-Line Filter 1.25″ (double stacked), TS-Optics 76/342 TS76EDPH, mountpusher, EQ3-mod and the ASI 178MM (cooled), B600, Lunt LS60T Ha, mountpusher, EQ3-mod with the 0.5x reducer, to have a better view of the Sun’s entire disk, I think I managed to capture a protuberance-something in Calcium K also.
ASI 178MM (cooled), Baader K-Line Filter 1.25″ (double stacked), TS-Optics 76/342 TS76EDPH, mountpusher, EQ3-mod
Using my home standard, with the focusing controller mounted into a white box (not to be confused with the soapbox project, which is the auto-guider, also a home standard interfacing with the ST4 on the mount), this is the last tube of mine to be motorized. While the solution leaves no room for one’s head, unless a snail… the solution should work well for planetary photo.
