CraigT82 Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 Had another go at Mars last night but the seeing was awful so gave up and decided to try to capture Uranus and Neptune instead. I've tried a couple of times to find the ice giants previously here in central Bristol, but never managed it due to the LP and lack of visible stars to hop with. This time though I just used the synscan handset so I could GoTo and just did a simple one star align which was enough to get me pointing in roughly the right place, then I zeroed in using my new 10x60 Stellarvue finder. Easy peasy!Uranus was 15 mins IR685nm overlaid as luminance on 3min R/G/B captures for the colour, then composited with a 3 min long exposure (1 sec exp) widefield image for the moons. Neptune was the same but without the IR luminance. It's come out a bit egg shaped for some reason but still happy with it.8.75" Fullerscope, 2.5x barlow, ZWO EFW mini,Altair 290m and Baader filters 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkAR Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 Nice one, makes a change from the orange rock. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoflewis Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 Posted by: @CraigT82 Had another go at Mars last night but the seeing was awful so gave up and decided to try to capture Uranus and Neptune instead. I've tried a couple of times to find the ice giants previously here in central Bristol, but never managed it due to the LP and lack of visible stars to hop with. This time though I just used the synscan handset so I could GoTo and just did a simple one star align which was enough to get me pointing in roughly the right place, then I zeroed in using my new 10x60 Stellarvue finder. Easy peasy!Uranus was 15 mins IR685nm overlaid as luminance on 3min R/G/B captures for the colour, then composited with a 3 min long exposure (1 sec exp) widefield image for the moons. Neptune was the same but without the IR luminance. It's come out a bit egg shaped for some reason but still happy with it.8.75" Fullerscope, 2.5x barlow, ZWO EFW mini,Altair 290m and Baader filtersCraig, those are excellent images of the ice giants their brighter moons. I particularly like the one of Uranus, but then Neptune is so far away that it really is a tough gig. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gufo20 Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 Nice image of Uranus plus moons - good to see some hints of detail. Chris 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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