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Feb 13, 2018 23:08:40   #
W7MEV
 
I got a shot at Uranus recently. I took the picture with my ST-80 guide scope and the QHY color guide camera to get a wider field of view than I could with the C-11. I took the shot without guiding and found the 30 second exposures did not smear TOO much! I only stacked 12 exposures and subtracted a dark frame averaged over 4 exposures. Photo-shopped a little and ended up with what you see here. I would have liked to stack a bunch more, but clouds were starting to move in from the West so I went with what I got.


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Feb 13, 2018 23:34:31   #
Merlin1300 Loc: New England, But Now & Forever SoTX
 
Almost like being there :)

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Feb 14, 2018 02:13:23   #
Europa Loc: West Hills, CA
 
Cool.

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Feb 14, 2018 13:44:43   #
bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada
 
W7MEV wrote:
I got a shot at Uranus recently. I took the picture with my ST-80 guide scope and the QHY color guide camera to get a wider field of view than I could with the C-11. I took the shot without guiding and found the 30 second exposures did not smear TOO much! I only stacked 12 exposures and subtracted a dark frame averaged over 4 exposures. Photo-shopped a little and ended up with what you see here. I would have liked to stack a bunch more, but clouds were starting to move in from the West so I went with what I got.
I got a shot at Uranus recently. I took the pictu... (show quote)

Looks about right! Nice shot.

bwa

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Feb 14, 2018 15:35:12   #
JimH123 Loc: Morgan Hill, CA
 
W7MEV wrote:
I got a shot at Uranus recently. I took the picture with my ST-80 guide scope and the QHY color guide camera to get a wider field of view than I could with the C-11. I took the shot without guiding and found the 30 second exposures did not smear TOO much! I only stacked 12 exposures and subtracted a dark frame averaged over 4 exposures. Photo-shopped a little and ended up with what you see here. I would have liked to stack a bunch more, but clouds were starting to move in from the West so I went with what I got.
I got a shot at Uranus recently. I took the pictu... (show quote)


Yep, that's Uranus. Nice work.

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Feb 14, 2018 17:57:38   #
CraigFair Loc: Santa Maria, CA.
 
W7MEV wrote:
I got a shot at Uranus recently. I took the picture with my ST-80 guide scope and the QHY color guide camera to get a wider field of view than I could with the C-11. I took the shot without guiding and found the 30 second exposures did not smear TOO much! I only stacked 12 exposures and subtracted a dark frame averaged over 4 exposures. Photo-shopped a little and ended up with what you see here. I would have liked to stack a bunch more, but clouds were starting to move in from the West so I went with what I got.
I got a shot at Uranus recently. I took the pictu... (show quote)

Very nicely done.
Craig

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Feb 15, 2018 11:53:49   #
SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA
 
Nicely done.

Now for an encore, try a shot with the main telescope and post both.
Stunning!

Planets can be a lot of fun. When my stuff was brand new, and I was learning how to use it, I was doing observation of Saturn.
Since I knew where it was those summer evenings, I set up to show the son. I got it in the telescope. Then added a 2X Barlow, better. Then tried my 3X Barlow, Mo better.
Then against all advice's, I stacked the two Barlow's and refocused, Stunning view of Saturn and it's rings. The sight degraded at each change, but Saturn is a big bright target anyway.
The family got a big kick out of that.

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