I did not expect that, but it has been very clear for a few hours or so. I put up the gear and clouds came rolling through. Luckily they disappeared again - for while.
Seeing was best of all of this Jupiter period, but away from being perfect. I managed to take a series of images between 4000 and 10000 images per SER video. One of the 10000 videos came out very well. All others suffered from the seeing.
Latest Update : 13 January 2024
| Today's Conditions |
: | clear sky with clouds passing through, Temp -1C, ~75% humidity, mediocre seeing, low wind |
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| 50% of 10000 images | Same image in Mono |
| Date - Time | : | 12 January 2024 - 16:36 UT |
| Instrument | : | Mak MK67 150/1800mm guided (no Barlow or eyepiece projection) |
| Camera | : | QHY5III715C |
| Exposure | : | SER Video 10000 frames at 2.3ms/frame | 400x400 pixel |
| Camera Settings | : | @~200 fps, gain 128 |
| Software | : | Firecapture, Astrosurface, Gimp |
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 : November 2023