AndrewSingleton
Jupiter 13th November 2013
I did another drive out to a dark sky location on the night of the 12th/13th. This time near Thirsk in the North York Moors. The location was ok although a lot of trees.
The night consisted of general visual observing with telescope and an attempt to get to grips with Jupiter. I tried to find Ison really early in the morning but didn't get it. My patience in 0c was wearing thin and I think the frost had set in on my equipment making life difficult.
This was my first attempt with a webcam which has been kindly passed down from Tommy Wakey at the Salford Astronomical Society who has now moved on to use a specialist CCD camera. Getting to grips with this was difficult having to improvise getting it into the telescope with the metal bit of one of the eyepieces and some ducktape. It would be useful to know how to turn off the light.
Sky-Watcher Explorer-130P with a 2X Barlow lens on a SynScan AZ GOTO Mount .
Although its unbranded the webcam looks like a Phillips Toucan.
Used Sharpcap 2 to video the planet taking around 1000 frames.
Stacked around the best 600 frames in Registack
I'll have another go at some point with the x3 barlow. Focusing on the x2 was hard enough so may not get much of an improvement.
Jupiter 13th November 2013
I did another drive out to a dark sky location on the night of the 12th/13th. This time near Thirsk in the North York Moors. The location was ok although a lot of trees.
The night consisted of general visual observing with telescope and an attempt to get to grips with Jupiter. I tried to find Ison really early in the morning but didn't get it. My patience in 0c was wearing thin and I think the frost had set in on my equipment making life difficult.
This was my first attempt with a webcam which has been kindly passed down from Tommy Wakey at the Salford Astronomical Society who has now moved on to use a specialist CCD camera. Getting to grips with this was difficult having to improvise getting it into the telescope with the metal bit of one of the eyepieces and some ducktape. It would be useful to know how to turn off the light.
Sky-Watcher Explorer-130P with a 2X Barlow lens on a SynScan AZ GOTO Mount .
Although its unbranded the webcam looks like a Phillips Toucan.
Used Sharpcap 2 to video the planet taking around 1000 frames.
Stacked around the best 600 frames in Registack
I'll have another go at some point with the x3 barlow. Focusing on the x2 was hard enough so may not get much of an improvement.