Colorful Moon, March 7, 2023, 22:30-22:50
Equipment:
-Svbony MK105 telescope
-Sky-Watcher AZ-GTi mount
-ZWO IR-cut filter
-Svbony SV705C camera
Processing: panorama from 4 frames, Autostakkert (100 frames from 2700), AstroSurface. Scale 50%.
astrophotography
Venus and Jupiter, March 02, 2023, 18:37
Equipment:
-Meade 70mm Astrograph Quadruplet APO Refractor
-Sky-Watcher AZ-GTi mount
-Barlow lens NPZ 2x
-ZWO IR-cut filter
-ZWO ASI 183MC camera
Due to the huge difference in the brightness of Venus, Jupiter and its satellites, I had to shoot two separate videos.
Shooting and processing:
1. Shooting a video with normal exposure for Jupiter, but overexposure for Venus (shooting time 18:37).
2. Shooting a video with normal exposure for Venus, but underlight for Jupiter (shooting time 18:38).
3. Addition of frames (separately Jupiter, separately Venus, 250 frames each).
4. Overlay of the unexposed image of Venus from the second video on the overexposed image of Venus from the first video.
5. Adjusting the white balance, increasing the brightness of Jupiter’s satellites relative to the planet’s disk.
Sun, February 27, 2023, 10:52
Equipment:
-Celestron 102 SLT telescope
-Celestron Nexstar SE mount
-Lacerta Herschel prism
-ND3 filter
-Baader Solar Continuum filter
–ZWO ASI 183MC camera
Stacking of 100 frames.
Sun, February 27, 2023, 10:56
Equipment:
-Celestron 102 SLT telescope
-Celestron Nexstar SE mount
-Lacerta Herschel prism
-Antlia CaK 3nm 393.3nm filter
-ND96-09 filter
–ZWO ASI 183MC camera
Stacking of 100 frames.
The Moon, February 23, 2023, 18:28
Equipment:
-Orion StarBlast 102mm telescope
-Celestron NexStar SE mount
-ZWO IR-cut filter
-ASI ZWO 183MC camera.
-Celestron NexStar SE mount
Processing: stacking of 100 frames from 1920 with Autostakkert, wavelets and deconvolution with AstroSurface.
Venus, February 23, 2023, 17:45
Equipment:
-telescope Celestron NexStar 8 SE
-Barlow lens cell NPZ 2x
-atmospheric dispersion corrector ZWO ADC
-filter ZWO IR-cut
-camera ZWO 183MC.
Stacking of 1000 frames from 17850 in Autostakkert, wavelets in Registax 6.
Venus, February 23, 2023, 18:08
Equipment:
-telescope Celestron NexStar 8 SE
-Barlow lens cell NPZ 2x
-atmospheric dispersion corrector ZWO ADC
-camera ZWO 183MC (green channel from previous image) + filter ZWO IR-cut
-camera QHY5III178m + Antlia CaK 3nm 393.3nm.
Stacking of 1000 frames, wavelets in Registax 6.
False colors: G, G + UV (50%), UV.
The Antlia CaK filter proved to be suitable for capturing the cloud cover of Venus. True, the brightness of the image turned out to be noticeably less than that of a stack of ZWB2 + SZS filters, so I had to increase the camera gain when capturing.