W7MEV

I recently received my ZWO ASI533MC camera. I have the MC-COOL version coming as well, but back ordered. I put the MC version on the back of my Celestron C-11 and tested it on Jupiter. Had only half an hour of open sky before it clouded up. The attached is 337 frames stacked in Registax 6. I then ran the result through Topaz DeNoise AL which smoothed out the noise. Some light Photoshop and the result is what you see. I am really happy with it and am really impressed with the new ZWO camera.
I will be mounting the ASI533MC on my Hyperstar to take advantage of its short exposure times maybe offsetting the small noise from not cooling and I will be mounting the ASI533MC-COOL Pro in the back to use with cooling when I am using the C-11 in SCT mode.

Any and all comments are welcome, even nasty ones. I am insult-proof and ALWAYS interested in whatever I can learn from the rest of you!

Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV

I don't think anyone with at least half a brain and one eye would say anything nasty about this!! Pretty spectacular!!

BassmanBruce Loc: Middle of the Mitten

Well I have at least half a brain and one eye and Dang! You’re right, pretty spectacular!

Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV

alberio Loc: Casa Grande AZ

Very nice image of Jupiter. It took me years before I got one with this much detail. I am curious why use that camera on the Hyperstar? Are you wanting wide field images? You didn't say if you used a 2x or 3x Barlow, if not you might try one to double the focal length. Most people don't know what a challenge it can be to get this much detail out of an object as far away and visually small as Jupiter is.

SkyKing Loc: Thompson Ridge, NY

…beautiful…!

W7MEV

i will be using the ASI533 on the hyperstar for wide field, short exposure pix. I have installed the newly arrived ASI533MC COOL on the back of the C-11 as my imaging device when using the full 2800 mm focal length of the C-11. I am using a 2" light train from the SCT to the camera. I don't have a 2" Barlow, so I have not tried it.

Usually images from the C-11 in SCT mode are fairly large in the camera. Often they are too big to handle and I must go to another telescope to get an image. I have an ST-80 which I use as a guide camera and sometimes I assign its camera (QHY 5 series color) to the imaging software and shoot larger objects with it. I also have an ASI178 camera attached to a 70mm finder scope and I can diddle around with it to get huge swaths of the sky - but not really sharp edge to edge pictures. Still fun, though.

I no longer use any of the telescopes for direct visual observation. I have some damage to the retina in the left and need cataract surgery on both, so visual observation is wasted effort. Not good, but it is what it is.

I did a series of the Orion nebula last night with the new ASI533MC COOL camera to see what different filter would do, and I will be posting that shortly.

Ballard Loc: Grass Valley, California

Nice detail. What frame rate where you using?