This evening I packed up my camera stuff and I wanted to image from the Kiel-Kronshagen Observatory II (Sternwarte II). There we have several instruments and I wanted to use the Meade ACF 12" F=10 (focal length 3000mm). At first we observed Mercury and Venus and a colleage tried imaging those.

My colleage then tried with his B&W camera on Jupiter and we found, that seeing was not the best - except some short moments.

Then I hooked up my camera and took 9 series of SER videos of Jupiter with the same setting. It later turned out, that only one video was a lot better than all others.

I turned to the Moon and made 8 videos of different sceneries. They all came out quite well.

ALl images are somewhat size-reduced. You can dive very deep into the original image.

Today's
Conditions		 : Clear sky, Temp +8°C, ~60..70% humidity, mediocre seeing, very calm, almost no winds

For all images

Instrument : INTES Meade LX200 ACF 12" F/10 guided (no Barlow and no eyepiece projection)
Software : Firecapture, Astrostakkert 3, Astrosurface, Gimp etc

Jupiter with the 12" ACF Meade (1st: 15% of video frames used; 2nd: 30% of video frames = less noise)
Date - Time : 07 March 2025 - 19:05 UT+
Image Data:
Camera=QHY5III715C | ROI=616x596 | Filter=L | 15% of 3000 Frames | FPS (avg.)=144 | Shutter=2.388ms | Gain=100 (41%)| Offset=30

Moon Alpen Valley (Image 1)
Date - Time : 07 March 2025 - 19:14 UT+
Image Data:
Camera=QHY5III715C | ROI=1344x1000 | Filter=L | 15% of 3000 Frames | FPS (avg.)=89 | Shutter=1.500ms | Gain=107 (44%)| Offset=30

Moon Alpen Valley (Image 2)
Date - Time : 07 March 2025 - 19:15 UT+
Image Data:
Camera=QHY5III715C | ROI=1344x1000 | Filter=L | 15% of 3000 Frames | FPS (avg.)=89 | Shutter=1.500ms | Gain=107 (44%)| Offset=30

Moon Montes Caucasus with craters Cassini (upper left) and Calippus
Date - Time : 07 March 2025 - 19:18 UT+
Image Data:
Camera=QHY5III715C | ROI=1136x592 | Filter=L | 15% of 3000 Frames | FPS (avg.)=89 | Shutter=1.500ms | Gain=92 (38%)| Offset=30

Moon craters Aristillus (upper) and Autolycus
Date - Time : 07 March 2025 - 19:20 UT+
Image Data:
Camera=QHY5III715C | ROI=1136x592 | Filter=L | 15% of 1000 Frames | FPS (avg.)=89 | Shutter=1.500ms | Gain=108 (45%) | Offset=30

Moon with all the above and nice shadows in crater Archimedes - Rima Hadley (Apollo 15) at the bottom.
Date - Time : 07 March 2025 - 19:23 UT+
Image Data:
Camera=QHY5III715C | ROI=3864x2192 (full frame) | Filter=L | 15% of 1000 Frames | FPS (avg.)=21 | Shutter=1.500ms | Gain=108 (45%) | Offset=30

Moon Rima Hyginus
Date - Time : 07 March 2025 - 19:25 UT+
Image Data:
Camera=QHY5III715C | ROI=2116x1670 | Filter=L | 15% of 1000 Frames | FPS (avg.)=47 | Shutter=1.500ms | Gain=102 (42%) | Offset=30

Moon craters Regiomontanus and Werner in the centre
Date - Time : 07 March 2025 - 19:27 UT+
Image Data:
Camera=QHY5III715C | ROI=3864x2192 (full frame) | Filter=L | 15% of 1000 Frames | FPS (avg.)=21 | Shutter=1.500ms | Gain=102 (42%) | Offset=30

Moon South Pole area - Image upside down
Date - Time : 07 March 2025 - 19:29 UT+
Image Data:
Camera=QHY5III715C | ROI=3864x2192 (full frame) | Filter=L | 15% of 1000 Frames | FPS (avg.)=21 | Shutter=1.500ms | Gain=102 (42%) | Offset=30

Equipment

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  : March 2025