Jupiter 2021 December 22
The workflow process is slowly changing over time. Now I tend to do a full view overexposed capture to establish orientation of the moons of Jupiter, to math it up…
Jupiter 2021Dec12
Seeing was NOT DISGUSTING this evening… merely poor! The following three images are the best 5%, 10% and 25% of 1340 frames with autostakkert3! in a 30 second run. This…
Jupiter 2021Dec05
seeing = 1 = DISGUSTING Initial image full res wide view overexposed to confirm moon orientation no barlow. Ganymede further out on left, Europa closer in on right then to…
Jupiter 2021Dec03
Working through the troubleshooting still. Much hardness in troubleshooting as seeing is 1=DISGUSTING. uninstalled firecapture completely. reinstalled from scratch into new location. Always have the debayer option ON. That seems…
Jupiter 2021Nov23
More commissioning attempts at solving the bad colour. This is the results of processing 39 runs (more actually, some were very bad and not included) through PIPP (.ser to .avi…
Jupiter 2021Nov22
Profile=Jupiter Diameter=39.25″ Magnitude=-2.35 Altitude=29.35° Airmass=2.04 CMI=19.4° CMII=182.6° CMIII=31.3° (during mid of capture) This is the last image of the night’s run… still needs collimating.. and the colour issue still needs…
collimate! collimate! collimate!
Telescope optics tend to be a finicky and complex issue at times. Mirrors tend to be finished down to fractions of a wavelength of light across the mirror surface to…