Another Good Night of Testing the ATIK Color Horizon: ATIK Color Horizon camera, Hutech HEUIB-II filter, Astro-Tech 65EDQ scope, Celestron AVX mount, unguided... Shot a number of...

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

ATIK Color Horizon camera, Hutech HEUIB-II filter, Astro-Tech 65EDQ scope, Celestron AVX mount, unguided...

Shot a number of targets over a four hour period and things worked reasonably well (for a change)

Targets: Arcturus, M13, M64, M82-M81 (Live Stacked & PixInsight Aligned & Stacked), M106 and Jupiter.

Enjoy!

bwa

Arcturus_PI_ABE_MStretch
Arcturus_PI_ABE_MStretch...

M13(25x30sec,1x1binned,MedGain)_PI_ABE_MStretchx2(32bit)_PS

M64(16x45sec,1x1binned,MedGain)_PI_ABE_MStretchx2(32bit)_PS

M82-81(36x30sec,1x1binned,MedGain)_LiveStacked_PS

M82-81(36x30sec,1x1binned,MedGain)_PI_ABE_MStretchx2(32bit)_PS

M106(25x30sec,1x1binned,MedGain)_PI_ABE_MStretchx2(32bit)_PS

Jupiter(36of39 subs in RegiStax)

CraigFair Loc: Santa Maria, CA.

bwana wrote:

ATIK Color Horizon camera, Hutech HEUIB-II filter,... (show quote)

Your work with the Horizon Camera is excellent Brian I am going to order mine next week. Thanks for sharing your experience with it.
Craig

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

CraigFair wrote:

Your work with the Horizon Camera is excellent Brian I am going to order mine next week. Thanks for sharing your experience with it.
Craig

WOO-HOO!
New stuff! We love new stuff!
Mono? Or Color?

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

CraigFair wrote:

Your work with the Horizon Camera is excellent Brian I am going to order mine next week. Thanks for sharing your experience with it.
Craig

Mono or color?

I'm seriously thinking about selling my mono ATIK 428Ex and mono Infinity and buying a mono Horizon. My dealer indicated they'd be interesting in doing a trade-in.

At present I'm working on getting a good white balance with the color Horizon. The images are too green but I guess that is to be expected with a RGGB Bayer filter.

bwa

CraigFair Loc: Santa Maria, CA.

bwana wrote:

Mono or color?

I'm seriously thinking about selling my mono ATIK 428Ex and mono Infinity and buying a mono Horizon. My dealer indicated they'd be interesting in doing a trade-in.

At present I'm working on getting a good white balance with the color Horizon. The images are too green but I guess that is to be expected with a RGGB Bayer filter.

bwa

Yeah I was thinking that the filter you use was causing the blue/green effect. But the imaging is really nice.
Craig

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

CraigFair wrote:

Yeah I was thinking that the filter you use was causing the blue/green effect. But the imaging is really nice.
Craig

Actually the HEUIB-II and STC Multi-Spectra filters both do a reasonable job correcting image color but the standard RGGB Bayer filter in a color camera leans towards green.

bwa

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

bwana wrote:

Actually the HEUIB-II and STC Multi-Spectra filters both do a reasonable job correcting image color but the standard RGGB Bayer filter in a color camera leans towards green.

bwa

Green color cast resolved! I remembered that I actually had Rogelio Andreo's Hasta La Vista, Green Photoshop plug-in. Works like a charm.

I used the plug-in about a decade ago when I was using QHY's 8 Pro color camera. Forgot that I had the plug-in.

bwa

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

bwana wrote:

Green color cast resolved! I remembered that I actually had Rogelio Andreo's Hasta La Vista, Green Photoshop plug-in. Works like a charm.

I used the plug-in about a decade ago when I was using QHY's 8 Pro color camera. Forgot that I had the plug-in.

bwa

Comparison, before and after Hasta La Vista, Green action. A really good image would be somewhere between these two!

bwa

M82-M81 - Previously
M82-M81 - Previously...

M82-M81 - After Photoshop Hasta La Vista, Green action

Paladin48 Loc: Orlando

bwana wrote:

ATIK Color Horizon camera, Hutech HEUIB-II filter,... (show quote)

All wonderful shots, bwana BUT what were the "particulars" on the Jupiter shot?

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

Paladin48 wrote:

All wonderful shots, bwana BUT what were the "particulars" on the Jupiter shot?

Particulars:

ATIK Color Horizon camera, Hutech HEUIB-II filter, Astro-Tech 65EDQ scope, Celestron AVX mount, unguided...

20x0.01 sec, 19x0.05 sec., Gain: 1, Offset: 1, 36 of 39 subs aligned and stacked in RegiStax. The 0.05 sec. subs were shot to better catch Jupiter's moons. I tried a few subs at the Horizon's shortest exposure (0.001 sec.) to see if I could get some surface features but the planet was still overexposed.

bwa

Paladin48 Loc: Orlando

bwana wrote:

Particulars:

ATIK Color Horizon camera, Hutech HEUIB-II filter, Astro-Tech 65EDQ scope, Celestron AVX mount, unguided...

20x0.01 sec, 19x0.05 sec., Gain: 1, Offset: 1, 36 of 39 subs aligned and stacked in RegiStax. The 0.05 sec. subs were shot to better catch Jupiter's moons. I tried a few subs at the Horizon's shortest exposure (0.001 sec.) to see if I could get some surface features but the planet was still overexposed.

bwa

Thank You ... I have a Celestron C8 deluxe, Nikon D610 can be mounted in prime focus or piggy backed (with a Nikkor 24mm-85mm). For that matter I can mount the camera on its own tripod. Not familiar with your ATIK Color Horizon camera so would your times work with my rig?

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

Paladin48 wrote:

Thank You ... I have a Celestron C8 deluxe, Nikon D610 can be mounted in prime focus or piggy backed (with a Nikkor 24mm-85mm). For that matter I can mount the camera on its own tripod. Not familiar with your ATIK Color Horizon camera so would your times work with my rig?

I also have a Celestron 8" EdgeHD and quite often use a Sony A7S or A7R II on it. For Jupiter, Saturn and Venus exposures of 1/100 sec. at ISO 100 would be a good place to start. Whatever works for the Moon works reasonably well for planets; they have about the same surface brightness.

An example with details at: Jupiter, A7S, C8 EdgeHD

Clear skies!

bwa