Today is the day of this year's Jupiter opposition. Weather forecast was rain. Unexpectedly it was quite clear, but strong wind gusts. I waited for a while until Jupiter was higher up in the sky and looked on the satellite cloud images. Clouds were approaching, but slowed down. I set up my gear and started.
I believe, that there are still some mechanical issues, because I cannot get the images as sharp as I was used to get them.
Latest Update : 23 December 2023
Today's Conditions |
: | clear sky, Temp +5C, ~50% humidity, poor seeing, low wind |
A raw stack of 4000 frames. | PIPP, AutoStakkert, Registax | AstroSurface (only) Richardson-Lucy (RL) |
AstroSurface (only) Point Spread Functions (PSF)+WL |
Earlier best Jupiter Image (2015) |
Date - Time | : | 03 November 2023 - 2001 UT |
Instrument | : | Mak MK67 150/1800mm guided (no Barlow or eyepiece projection) |
Camera | : | QHY5III715C |
Exposure | : | SER Video 4000 frames at 0.7ms/frame | 400x400 pixel |
Camera Settings | : | @210 fps gain 130 |
Software | : | Firecapture, Astrosurface |
Date - Time | : | 03 November 2023 - 2045 UT |
Instrument | : | Mak MK67 150/1800mm guided (no Barlow or eyepiece projection) |
Camera | : | QHY5III715C |
Exposure | : | SER Video 600 frames at 2ms/full-frame | crop 1200*800 pixel |
Camera Settings | : | @210 fps gain 130 |
Software | : | Firecapture, Astrosurface |
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 : November 2023