HEQ5, N250/1200, TSO ADC, ASI 462MC (cooled), home observatory, mountpusher
Jupiter with a diagonal line — 2020-08-20
Yesterday was like any other day, using the little time I have left with this part of the sky — long live the real estate maffia. So I turned on the telescope to record Jupiter. At first, I thought the feature is a piece of hair or something similar, but it moves together with Jupiter, so it should be on Jupiter — or a really extreme case of an artifact from the workflow. I’ve never seen something this big on Jupiter. HEQ5, N250/1200, TSO ADC, ASI 224MC (cooled), home observatory, mountpusher
Hypotheses:
1. a random alignment of features. Could be proved by feature tracking, but I have no data for the last seven days. It’s been raining.
2. scars from an impact event, a row of meteors hit Jupiter some time before my session.
3. ?
In the meanwhile, I received notice from two independent observers that the feature is visible on their pictures too: https://www.asztrofoto.hu/galeria_image/1598019963 and https://www.asztrofoto.hu/galeria_image/1598020097
Jupiter, 5 minutes derotated, showing the same feature, 1933Z
Szaturnusz 2020-07-29
This is Saturn as imaged at 2020-07-29 21:52Z, with HEQ5, N250/1200, TSO ADC, ASI 224MC (cooled), home observatory, mountpusher
Jupiter and Io – 2020-08-09
Frames of 1:28 with 2 seconds gap, 2020-08-09-1919Z — 2020-08-09-2111Z. HEQ5, N250/1200, TSO ADC, ASI 224MC (cooled), home observatory, mountpusher
Jupiter and Io, 2020-08-09
Gas giants in UV
HEQ5, N250/1200, ASI 178MM (cooled), home observatory, mountpusher, Baader Venus U filter
Due to the very few light, exposure times needed to be at around >100ms and gain pushed to > 3/4 of the slider to get meaningful results.
Jupiter in UV, Baader Venus U
Saturn in UV, Baader Venus U
Mars 2020-07-22
HEQ5, N250/1200, TSO ADC, ASI 224MC (cooled) for the color, and ASI 178MM (cooled) through IR-pass 650 for the luminance, home observatory, mountpusher
first processing
another processing
