New Astro Rig & an Old Astro Rig battling Clouds & Wind, the 1st two images are shot with my 8se which is a long focal length SCT at 2032mm & the 3rd is a bodged experiment using a Canon 200mm lens
Long Focal Length 2032mm
The seeing for Jupiter wasnt great but i managed to pick up the cloud bands and two moons Io & Ganymede. I will revisit this at some point but my true love is stuff outside our solar system.
I also got a snapshot stack of the moon with some craters and a mountain range, i believe it to be the Appenine Mountains but not totaly sure.
Short Focal Length 200mm
I was having a bit of a play with a Canon 200mm lens and a bodged adapter setup with my old dedicated Altair 183c astronomy camera, i figured this setup might be real fun with the lens set @F3.5 and the camera having relativly small fixels of 2.4uf Microns. I was half right and i need to dial in the settings a bit more but i only managed 15 mins of data before the clouds rolled in, there was a tiny bit of tilt and i think F4 will be better but slower.
This was the 15 min image of testing with my new mini rig, it was made up of 30 x 30second images stacked in ASTAP and captured in Sharpcap live stack.
This is the image from the capture software, if you look closly on the right side of the frame you will see purple stars probably caused by a small ammount of tilt causing focus shift from oneside to the other.
All images are shot by me and i allow fair use with sources quoted.
