Planets and DSOs

Took advantage of a clear and moonless night to do some EAA. My goal was to image DSOs but also planets (a first with the Geoptik platform).

At the end (around 11:30pm), the sky looked pretty good for San Francisco, so I took used the Baader Zoom to look at Jupiter and its moons.

I started with the focal reducer and the L-Enhance filter.

I removed the filter and replaced the focal reducer with the Barlow lens for Saturn.

After that I continued without focal reducer, Barlow lens or filter.

At the end, for Jupiter, I reinstalled the Barlow lens.

Tracking wise, it was problematic initially but quite good afterwards (for the planets and a few other targets).

Observations:

C19 Cocoon Nebula - Cygnus - a lot of frames were rejected and the stack shows tails on the stars
C63 Helix Nebula - Aquarius
M2 Globular Cluster - Aquarius - very few frames kept
Saturn using FireCapture + ASIVideoStack - I also tried ASICap but did not get better results
Neptune and Triton
Uranus, Oberon, Titania and Umbriel - in ASILive then with FireCapture + ASIVideoStack where one could tell the phase is not 100%
M45 Pleiades - Taurus - the Maia nebula - tracking was much better than earlier
M33 Triangulum Galaxy - very high in the sky - so much better results than last few times - tracking was also pretty good
M31 Great Andromeda Galaxy and M32
M110 Galaxy - Andromeda
NGC 672 and IC 1727 interacting galaxies - Triangulum
Jupiter