Imaging planets and some DSOs
The sky was mostly clear and Mars visible above the eastern horizon so I decided to take out the Dobs and asi678mc camera to get my first pictures of Mars. I started with Jupiter then turned the scope to Mars. I did not use the Barlow. I captured videos with FireCapture and did the stacking and post-processing in ASIVideoStack.
I also imaged a few DSOs (also with the asi678mc using bin2).
I finished with some visual observations using the binoviewers.
Observations (camera)
- Jupiter (Great Red Spot) with Io and Europa
- Mars
- M1 Crab Nebula - Taurus
- M42 Great Orion Nebula (zooming in on the center: Trapezium cluster)
- M43 de Mairan's Nebula - Orion
- NGC 1975 Running Man Nebula - Orion
Observations (visual)
- Mars - very bright, could not make out any features
- M42 Great Orion Nebula (Trapezium cluster)
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| Jupiter, Io and Europa - 20% of 10150 frames x 1.5 ms |
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| Mars - 20% of 10737 frames x 0.1ms |
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| M1 Crab Nebula 50 x 1s (bin2) |
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| Trapezium Cluster in M42 Great Orion Nebula - 100 x 0.5s (bin2) |
