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Clear night and I tried my best with the rather poor seeing on Jupiter and Saturn. Saturn disappears already quite early behind the house and Jupiter is now high enough at that very time.

The QHY5III715C does a remarkably good job so far.



Saturn very low in the sky and purely wobbling around. This is what I got out of it. Now the time for Saturn is almost over (for me), as it disappears behind the house early now.
22 September 2023 - 2106 UT - 25%/4000 frames at 2ms/frame 210 fps - QHY5III715C - Mak MK67 150/1800mm



After Saturn was away behind the house, I tried again on Jupiter, which was already quite high up. Seeing has been poor as well. This is the best I could get out of it in this year so far.
22 September 2023 - 2224 UT - 70%/4000 frames at 1ms/frame 270 fps - QHY5III715C - Mak MK67 150/1800mm



I realized by just looking to the SkyChart, that Jupiter moon Io would appear from behind the planet. I managed to make a short sequence of this event.
22 September 2023 - 2226UT - 9 * 70%/4000 frames at 1ms/frame 145fps - QHY5III715C - Mak MK67 150/1800mm

Equipment

Optics              : Omegon Pro AP Triplet ED FCD-100 d=85 f=510mm Apochromat (f=1/6)
                    : Intes MK-67 Maksutov Type Reflector d=150mm f=1800mm (f=1/12)
Camera              : Omegon veTec 533 C Colour CMOS Camera with IMX533 square 9MP sensor 3,75µm pixels
                    : QHY 5III715C Colour CMOS IMX715 8,2MP sensor 1,45um pixels high speed
                    : NIKON D7000 DSLR unmodified (from 2011)
                    : The Imaging Source DMK21AU4.AS monochrome USB highspeed camera
                    : Panasonic LUMIX G110 MFT System (from 2021)
Filter              : IR/UV Cut, Astronomik H-Alpha, Astronomik LRGB set + filter drawer
add. optics         : ED 2x Barlow lens, eyepiece projection
                    : 35mm, 50mm, 135mm and 200mm NIKON lenses available
                    : 2.8/60mm Sigma, 12 .. 60mm Leica for MFT system
Mount               : VIXEN GP Highspeed Step Motors (Non Vixen Motors)
Controller          : EQStar Pro (since May 2023)
Guiding             : PHD2
Aquisition          : DELL Notebooks (Windows 10 & Windows 11), SharpCap, FireCapture and others
Image Processing    : DeepSkyStacker, Siril, Gimp and others

latest list update  : September 2023