Moon and Venus, April 23, 2023, 16:10
Equipment:
-Meade 70mm Astrograph Quadruplet APO Refractor
-Sky-Watcher AZ-GTi mount
-ZWO IR-cut filter
-ZWO ASI 183MC camera.
Venus
Venus, April 15, 18:05, 2023
Equipment:
-telescope Celestron NexStar 8 SE
-Barlow lens cell NPZ 2x
-atmospheric dispersion corrector ZWO ADC
-extender tube
-ZWO IR-cut filter
-camera ZWO 183MC.
Stacking of 1000 frames from 29640 in Autostakkert, wavelets in Registax 6.
Venus, March 25, 2023, 17:35
Equipment:
-telescope Celestron NexStar 8 SE
-Barlow lens cell NPZ 2x
-atmospheric dispersion corrector ZWO ADC
-ZWO IR-cut filter
-camera ZWO 183MC.
Stacking of 500 frames from 14665 in Autostakkert, wavelets in Registax 6.
Source video at link.
Wavelet settings in Registax
Venus in visible and UV light, March 25, 2023, 17:35, 17:43
Equipment:
-telescope Celestron NexStar 8 SE
-Barlow lens cell NPZ 2x
-atmospheric dispersion corrector ZWO ADC
-camera ZWO 183MC (green channel from previous image) + ZWO IR-cut filter
-camera QHY5III178m + Antlia CaK 3nm 393.3nm.
Stacking of 1000 frames, wavelets in Registax 6.
False colors: G, G + UV (50%), UV.
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.
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.