21.09.2024 (02:07 UT - 02:16 UT)

Celestron C14 Edge HD @ f=9700 mm (F/41), res = 0.06"/px
+ Celestron CGE Pro mount
+ Celestron EF
+ Player One Uranus-C
+ Baader 2x VIP Barlow
+ ZWO ADC
+ ZWO EFW
+ Tempest Cooler
+ Omegon Dew Heater
+ Astrozap Dew Shield for C 14

Very short imaging train: I simply screwed the Baader VIP Barlow into the nose piece of the ZWO EFW. However, the small pixel size of the Player One Uranus-C leads to a pixel scale of 0.06"/px at a reasonable f-ratio of f/41.

RGB: 11 x SER movies
5000 frames/movie
8 ms exposure time, gain = 430
1x1 bin

recorded with Firecapture

Jupiter 54° above the horizon
Seeing: fair-good

Diameter: 40.89"
CMI=19.4° CMII=220.0° CMIII=343.5°

Postprocessing

Autostakkert!4beta:
- Stacking 50% of the frames/movie
- Image Stabilization Planet
- Quality Estimator: Automatic
- Reference Frame: Automatic
- Normalize Stack 90%
- Minimum AP size = 136, Min Bright = 45, Multi-Scale

Registax:
- wavelet sharpening using a Gaussian wavelet filter on layer 2 (28) with slight denoise (0.05), step increment = 2
- RGB Balance - Auto Balance

WinJUPOS:
- image measurement of RGB images
- image de-rotation & stacking of all RGB images

Adobe PS:
- clipping artefacts in the sky background

Lucien Astrosurface 3:
- Lucy-Richardson deconvolution:
Airy PSF Size: 1.7
Noise Prefilter: 0.7 pixels
20 Iterations

Adobe LR:
- increase vibrance & saturation: +15

Topaz Denoise 6:
- noise reduction:
Overall Strength: 0.05
Adjust Shadow: -1

Schwentinental (Germany)

-CS Daniel

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21.09.2024 (02:59 UT - 03:07 UT)

Celestron C14 Edge HD @ f=9700 mm (F/41), res = 0.06"/px
+ Celestron CGE Pro mount
+ Celestron EF
+ Player One Uranus-C
+ Baader 2x VIP Barlow
+ ZWO ADC
+ ZWO EFW
+ Tempest Cooler
+ Omegon Dew Heater
+ Astrozap Dew Shield for C 14

Very short imaging train: I simply screwed the Baader VIP Barlow into the nose piece of the ZWO EFW. However, the small pixel size of the Player One Uranus-C leads to a pixel scale of 0.06"/px at a reasonable f-ratio of f/41.

RGB: 10 x SER movies
5000 frames/movie
9.2 ms exposure time, gain = 430
1x1 bin

recorded with Firecapture

Jupiter 54° above the horizon
Seeing: Pickering 6-7 (fair-good)

Diameter: 40.89"
CMI=50.8° CMII=251.2° CMIII=14.7°

Postprocessing

Autostakkert!4beta:
- Stacking 10% of the frames/movie
- Image Stabilization Planet
- Quality Estimator: Automatic
- Reference Frame: Automatic
- Normalize Stack 90%
- Minimum AP size = 136, Min Bright = 45, Multi-Scale

Registax:
- wavelet sharpening using a Gaussian waveket filter on layer 2 (30) with slight denoise (0.05), step increment = 2
- RGB Balance - Auto Balance

WinJUPOS:
- image measurement of RGB images
- image de-rotation & stacking of all RGB images

Adobe PS:
- clipping artefacts in the sky background
- color saturation enhancement
- removing green tint using histogram transformations
- remove color artefacts surrounding Ganymeds shadow
- slight contrast reduction

Lucien Astrosurface 3:
- Lucy-Richardson deconvolution

Topaz Denoise 6:
- noise reduction

Schwentinental (Germany)

-CS Daniel

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21.09.2024 (03:22 UT - 03:30 UT)

Celestron C14 Edge HD @ f=9700 mm (F/41), res = 0.06"/px
+ Celestron CGE Pro mount
+ Celestron EF
+ Player One Uranus-C
+ Baader 2x VIP Barlow
+ ZWO ADC
+ ZWO EFW
+ Tempest Cooler
+ Omegon Dew Heater
+ Astrozap Dew Shield for C 14

Very short imaging train: I simply screwed the Baader VIP Barlow into the nose piece of the ZWO EFW. However, the small pixel size of the Player One Uranus-C leads to a pixel scale of 0.06"/px at a reasonable f-ratio of f/41.

RGB: 10 x SER movies
5000 frames/movie
9.2 ms exposure time, gain = 430
1x1 bin

recorded with Firecapture

Jupiter 56° above the horizon
Seeing: Pickering 6-7 (fair-good)

Diameter: 40.89"
CMI=65.1° CMII=265.3° CMIII=28.8°

Postprocessing

Autostakkert!4beta:
- Stacking 10% of the frames/movie
- Image Stabilization Planet
- Quality Estimator: Automatic
- Reference Frame: Automatic
- Normalize Stack 90%
- Minimum AP size = 136, Min Bright = 45, Multi-Scale

Registax:
- wavelet sharpening using a Gaussian waveket filter, layer 2 with slight denoise, step increment = 2
- RGB Balance - Auto Balance

WinJUPOS:
- image measurement of RGB images
- image de-rotation & stacking of all RGB images

Adobe PS:
- clipping artefacts in the sky background
- color saturation enhancement
- removing green tint using histogram transformations
- remove color artefacts surrounding Ganymeds shadow
- slight contrast reduction

Lucien Astrosurface 3:
- Lucy-Richardson deconvolution

Topaz Denoise 6:
- noise reduction

Schwentinental (Germany)

-CS Daniel

g h i Some Rights Reserved

21.09.2024 (03:57 UT - 04:17 UT)

Celestron C14 Edge HD @ f=9700 mm (F/41), res = 0.06"/px
+ Celestron CGE Pro mount
+ Celestron EF
+ Player One Uranus-C
+ Baader 2x VIP Barlow
+ ZWO ADC
+ ZWO EFW
+ Tempest Cooler
+ Omegon Dew Heater
+ Astrozap Dew Shield for C 14

Very short imaging train: I simply screwed the Baader VIP Barlow into the nose piece of the ZWO EFW. However, the small pixel size of the Player One Uranus-C leads to a pixel scale of 0.06"/px at a reasonable f-ratio of f/41.

RGB: 20 x 60 s SER movies
~6000 frames/movie
5.3 ms exposure time, gain = 400
1x1 bin

recorded with Firecapture

Mars 53° above the horizon
Seeing: Pickering 6-7 (fair-good)
Unfortunately, I did not notice the significant amount of dew forming on the C14 corrector plate

Diameter: 7.16"
CM: 18.4°

Postprocessing

Autostakkert!4beta:
- Stacking 10% of the frames/movie
- Image Stabilization Planet
- Quality Estimator: Laplace, Noise Robust 5, Local
- Reference Frame: Autosize
- Normalize Stack 90%
- Minimum AP size = 88, Min Bright = 45

Registax:
- wavelet sharpening using layer 2, step increment = 1

WinJUPOS:
- image measurement of RGB images
- image de-rotation & stacking of all RGB images

Lucien Astrosurface 3:
- Wiener deconvolution

Adobe PS:
- noise reduction
- color correction

Schwentinental (Germany)

-CS Daniel

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28.08.2024 (03:34 UT - 03:48 UT)

Celestron C14 Edge HD @ f=8750 mm (F/37), res = 0.07"/px
+ Celestron CGE Pro mount
+ Celestron EF
+ ZWO ASI 290 MM
+ Baader 2x VIP Barlow
+ ZWO EFW
+ Baader IR (685 nm) filter
+ Tempest Cooler
+ Omegon Dew Heater
+ Astrozap Dew Shield for C 14

Very short imaging train: I simply screwed the Baader VIP Barlow into the nose piece of the ZWO EFW. However, the small pixel size of the ZWO ASI 290 MM leads to a pixel scale of 0.07"/px at a reasonable f-ratio of f/37.

IR: 8 x SER movies
5000 frames/movie
5.2 ms exposure time, gain = 268
1x1 bin

recorded with Firecapture

Saturn 45° above the horizon
Seeing: Pickering 4-5 (poor)

Postprocessing

IR

Autostakkert!4beta:
- Stacking 25% of the frames/movie
- Image Stabilization Planet
- Quality Estimator: Laplace, Noise Robust 5, Local
- Reference Frame: Autosize
- Normalize Stack 90%
- Minimum AP size = 104, Min Bright = 45

Registax:
- wavelet sharpening using layer 2, step increment = 1

WinJUPOS:
- image measurement of IR images
- image de-rotation & stacking of all IR images

Lucien Astrosurface 3:
- apply LR deconvolution

Topaz Denoise 6:
- noise reduction

Schwentinental (Germany)

-CS Daniel

g h i Some Rights Reserved