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.
Merlin1300
Loc: New England, But Now & Forever SoTX
Almost like being there :)
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.
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Looks about right! Nice shot.
bwa
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.
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Yep, that's Uranus. Nice work.
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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