wargrafix
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Post by wargrafix on Aug 21, 2023 23:04:52 GMT -5
I know I may not be getting more rocks for a while, but I thought you all might like some images of the planets for this year so far. I am concentrating more on Jupiter and Saturn right now since they are become better everyday.
My telescope is the Celestron 9.25 sct Mount is the Orion Atlas pro Barlow is the Vivitar 3X teleconverter Camera is the Player one Uranus-C
Many images are taken by shooting video, stacking the video to distill the best frames and the applying a combination of sharpening and noise reduction calculations which are done in a program called registax. And better yet, there are programs capable of combing a series of stacks into a cleaner image
Jupiter and Europa on the 16th August
Saturn on the 13th August |
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Post by Son Of Beach on Aug 21, 2023 23:25:13 GMT -5
That's pretty cool. I assume you don't have to stabilize anything being it's so far away?
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Post by liveoak on Aug 22, 2023 6:20:17 GMT -5
Way cool ! The picture of Saturn is truly amazing.  You might not have rocks - but you obviously have a clear sky. Thanks for sharing the photos. Patty |
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Post by jasoninsd on Aug 22, 2023 7:52:58 GMT -5
OMG wargrafix! Those are SO beautiful!! I do envy you a little bit, being able to see them through your telescope!  |
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Post by wargrafix on Aug 22, 2023 8:51:37 GMT -5
For planetary you do want a well tracking mount for long period captures! I am glad you all liking! :-) Jupiter, Io and its shadow as well as the great red spot  |
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Post by skrapyard on Aug 23, 2023 11:42:23 GMT -5
@wargraphix - those pictures turned out great. Its amazing the types of images that amateur astronomers are turning out these days.
Ive always wanted to get into it but I just havent put my money into it. I do have a 12" dob that I take out occasionally but I find it tough to manually track whatever Im viewing.
My girlfriends dad used to run an astronomy group where we would camp out for the weekends with a bunch of people and seeing the images they were capturing was mind blowing. It definitely humbled me as I was fighting to manually track things with the cannon of a scope I have.
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Post by Pat on Aug 23, 2023 16:27:32 GMT -5
They look so ethereal!! Perfect!
Thanks.
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Post by wargrafix on Aug 23, 2023 17:22:47 GMT -5
Thank you all, night before were stunning to almost perfect conditions. I am still working on the data, but here is a spicy preview  |
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Post by wargrafix on Aug 24, 2023 15:58:33 GMT -5
Recently after the passing of a tropical storm, I captured Jupiter in someone the finest conditions of the year  |
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Post by wargrafix on Aug 25, 2023 8:19:19 GMT -5
I know there is a love of Saturn, And I have to say, this is my best of the year so far! From the 22nd August  |
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Post by drocknut on Sept 2, 2023 10:01:36 GMT -5
Those are awesome images. Thank you for sharing them.
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Post by wargrafix on Sept 7, 2023 9:04:04 GMT -5
Wide angle of Europa, Io and Ganymede from the 26th August  |
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Post by michiganpebbler on Sept 7, 2023 9:23:16 GMT -5
Very cool!! Your Saturn images are magical.
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Post by wargrafix on Sept 11, 2023 19:05:45 GMT -5
Here is the great crazy lace agate in the sky on the 9th September
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Post by wargrafix on Sept 11, 2023 19:15:32 GMT -5
Lets go way back. I got my first telescope in 2013 and here is one of my first planetary captures in 2016
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Post by liveoak on Sept 18, 2023 10:12:44 GMT -5
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Post by wargrafix on Sept 22, 2023 21:48:41 GMT -5
Apologies to the mods and members. I have an animation that would have been wrong not to share.
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Post by Son Of Beach on Sept 22, 2023 22:50:04 GMT -5
Apologies to the mods and members. I have an animation that would have been wrong not to share.
Please share the details....how? |
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Post by wargrafix on Sept 22, 2023 23:31:49 GMT -5
Apologies to the mods and members. I have an animation that would have been wrong not to share.
Please share the details....how? I had known this event was happening.The issue was Jupiter was on about 45 degrees up from the horizon (closer the horizon, the worse seeing gets). By great fortune, the conditions were very good. I used the Celestron 9.25 sct telescope, a 3x teleconverter and A planetary camera called the Uranus-C at 104fps.
I focused and shot 50 videos each, which rounded up to a grand total of 480gb of data! I stacked each video and applied wavelets in a program called registax. Then loaded up the final frames into a program called PIPP and set the frame rate to 14fps. The resulting gif is what you see
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Post by jasoninsd on Sept 23, 2023 9:34:31 GMT -5
Please share the details....how? I had known this event was happening.The issue was Jupiter was on about 45 degrees up from the horizon (closer the horizon, the worse seeing gets). By great fortune, the conditions were very good. I used the Celestron 9.25 sct telescope, a 3x teleconverter and A planetary camera called the Uranus-C at 104fps.
I focused and shot 50 videos each, which rounded up to a grand total of 480gb of data! I stacked each video and applied wavelets in a program called registax. Then loaded up the final frames into a program called PIPP and set the frame rate to 14fps. The resulting gif is what you see
OMG! This was so stunning to see! Thank you SO much for all the work that went into capturing this...and sharing it!! |
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