Jupiter 2023Feb13

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by kevin on February 14, 2023 at 17:55 and modified on February 14, 2023. at 17:59
Posted In: astronomy

Jupiter was low (airmass was 2.55 !!!), seeing was average, transparency was poor. This was the best 10% of 15K frames at 5ms per frame.

First time out in a month and boy was it cold… not as cold as before but still brrrrr!
This is the 3rd imaging session of 2023. Sunday evening.. could not stay up for long. Attempted to find Mars and after 10 minutes of searching, slewing, resetting, etc. no joy.

Really really looking forward to a newer bigger camera someday that has a bigger FOV… then I might be able to find my target better!

Then again maybe this ZWO ASIAir may be another possibility.. Only issue is, can the ASI 290MC camera image stars in order for plate solving to take a stab at pointing and aligning?