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Month: August 2022

Fading summer

Fading summer

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I had a short but focused session last night. My initial goal was to capture Mars and Uranus with the planetary camera but the supermoon made things a bit difficult. I hope to revisit these planets later this year.

The summer triangle is slowly moving away from my usual observation sights so I’ll need to say my goodbyes soon to Vega, Deneb and Altair. New other prominent objects are showing up now, such as the lovely Pleiades.

I decided to have one last look at M57 and took an almost 4 minute exposure with the ZWO224MC.

The reward was worth the effort:

Outer worlds

Outer worlds

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I decided to focus on planets and experimented with gain/exposure on Jupiter, Saturn. Needless to say I’m absolutely thrilled about the result.

Jupiter resolved way more detail than I expected and the moons Io and Europa as a bonus. Saturn shows cloud bands and the Cassini gap.

All pictures processed with ZWO224MC, 8 inch dob, Orion shorty barlow and IR filter on the camera. Post processed with PIP, AS3, Registax.