This was a wonderful evening. Low winds mediocre to good seeing. I was able to take a number of good videos of the Moon, Jupiter and Mars.
Lunar Images at the end
Today's Conditions |
: | Clear sky, Temp +2°C => -3°C, ~80..90% humidity, good down to mediocre seeing, very calm, almost no winds |
Jupiter and Mars Data
Profile=Jupiter Diameter=45.80" Magnitude=-2.66 Altitude=33.92° - 55.91° |
Profile=Mars Diameter=14.57" Magnitude=-1.37 Altitude=40.81° |
For all images
Instrument | : | INTES Mak MK67 150/1800mm guided (no Barlow and no eyepiece projection) |
Software | : | Firecapture, Astrostakkert 3, Astrosurface, Gimp etc |
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Mars at Oposition Day (Best of 3 Videos added) |
Date - Time : 12 January 2025 - 19:42 UT+ |
Image Data: Camera=QHY5III715C | ROI=400x400 | Filter=L | 10% of Frames captured=3x10000 | FPS (avg.)=207 | Shutter=4.677ms | Gain=83 (34%)| Offset=30 |
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Jupiter with GRS (Great Red Spot) |
Date - Time : 12 January 2025 - 16:33 UT+ |
Image Data: Camera=QHY5III715C | ROI=400x400 | Filter=L | 10% of Frames captured=10000 | FPS (avg.)=207 | Shutter=1.096ms | Gain=132 (55%) | Offset=30 |
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Jupiter with GRS (Great Red Spot) Difference in Shutterspeed and Gain |
Date - Time : 12 January 2025 - 16:35 UT+ |
Image Data: Camera=QHY5III715C | ROI=400x400 | Filter=L | 10% of Frames captured=10000 | FPS (avg.)=202 | Shutter=4.919ms | Gain=90 (37%) | Offset=30 * First image with standard Color camera procedure. * Second image colours split into R-G-B, contrast and sharpened and then colours recombined. * Third image Sorted 1200 of 10000 with PIPP, then like second image. So, what is the best? |
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Jupiter later without GRS and Seeing became bad |
Date - Time : 12 January 2025 - 19:40 UT+ |
Image Data: Camera=QHY5III715C | ROI=400x400 | Filter=L | 10% of Frames captured=10000 | FPS (avg.)=207 | Shutter=2.281ms | Gain=109 (45%)| Offset=30 |
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Jupiter wider field with Moons Ganymede - Europa - Io (Image Size reduced to 70%) |
Date - Time : 12 January 2025 - 19:42 UT+ |
Image Data: Camera=QHY5III715C | ROI=3864x2192 (cropped down) | Filter=L | 15% of Frames captured=3000 | FPS (avg.)=207 | Shutter=4.569ms | Gain=109 (45%) | Offset=30 |
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Moon - Hevelius Crater (lower) - Calverius (upper) |
Date - Time : 12 January 2025 - 20:03 UT+ |
Image Data: Camera=QHY5III715C | ROI=1024x768 (resized to w=800) | Filter=L | 15% of Frames captured=3000 | FPS (avg.)=114 | Shutter=1.500ms | Gain=107 (44%) | Offset=30 |
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Moon - South Pole region (hard to find on map, where exactly) |
Date - Time : 12 January 2025 - 20:05 UT+ |
Image Data: Camera=QHY5III715C | ROI=1024x768 (resized to w=800) | Filter=L | 15% of Frames captured=3000 | FPS (avg.)=114 | Shutter=1.500ms | Gain=107 (44%) | Offset=30 |
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Moon - Schröter Valley and Aristarchus Crater |
Date - Time : 12 January 2025 - 20:06 UT+ |
Image Data: Camera=QHY5III715C | ROI=1024x768 (resized to w=800) | Filter=L | 15% of Frames captured=3000 | FPS (avg.)=115 | Shutter=1.500ms | Gain=107 (44%) | Offset=30 |
Optics : Omegon Pro APO 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 (System from Astro Gadget / Ukraine - 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 : January 2025