Another video treat! As are others, I’m thoroughly enjoying your enthusiasm with the new rig. Your stuff is always a treat so it’s nice to get more! Bravo!
Currently my biggest telescope is a Questar 3.5 so I’ve learned to be a big fan of Jupiter. Looking forward to more from you and your massive aperture.
It's great to see an experienced astrophotographer work through a new system (planetary) because I can use your learnings right along side my own. Keep up the great progress!
I'm in the same boat Dylan. Back in August I found a used C14 and I've been working on planetary since. Seeing is everything in this game and most of the time it is crap here in Wisconsin. I look forward to watching your journey.
Nice work! Weather and seeing here have been rubbish, my one C14 excursion at Jupiter opposition was pretty terrible (and freezing cold). Glad you're getting some great results! Happy Holidays all!
Bloody awesome mate hmmm I think I'm gonna have to sell some body parts for a C14, hope you all have a great Christmas & look forward to catching up with more of your content in the new year.
I’m not even going to try and make some lame joke such as “He plugs Shiraz and chugs Cab” or something That’s just objectively a beautiful image. Well done!
Nice video Dylan and perfect timing. I'm taking delivery of my Skymax 127 mak scope tomorrow followed soon after by a 2x focal extender. I’ve decided to have a go at planetary after spending the last 3 years in DSO territory. Of course I wont be able to compete with your rig, but I'm looking forward to the challenge.
Maybe 18 years ago, out in the desert south of Phoenix at a star party the gang (well, mainly me) woke up and found Jupiter straight up. In the 16" dob and the 11" NexStar Jupiter was showing detail I've never seen before or since. Totally spoiled me right there.
Sitting in windy, rainy Seattle (on the longest night of the year), thoroughly enjoying your latest video (as well as, by coincidence, a tumbler of a quite tasty Washington state Cab), I raise my glass in the general direction of Australia. Cheers, mate!
Well done possum, awesome setup you have now, the dome, the scope, the automation process, one can only follow your progress with admiration and eagerly await your next upload... I remember seeing Jupiter live through my LS"6 and a simple meade LPG colour camera for the first time back in 2015... I had no idea how to really use the fire capture software back then, but there's just something mesmerising about seeing the plants and their moons live on screen.... The 10inch LX850 f8 ota arrived this week... In the words of the film JAWS "your gonna need a bigger boat"... I'm gonna need a bigger mount,,,, so now to slowly build a new setup over 2025... 😊 Happy Christmas Mr D & Family... May the star God's now forgive you for all those 14 inches before marriage 😂😅😂😊
Awesome work, love the video and the results! Does the C14 come with 5/5 seeing out of the box or is that available as a separate purchase? 😊 Question on the focus points per filter: how does it deal with focuser backlash? Does firecapture have overshoot backlash? Or does it rely on absolute focuser backlash set in the ASCOM driver (which would be annoying)?
Hey Cuiv! Since swapping to the esatto so the focuser is in the image train I think backlash is effectively zero. That’s what I set it to in NINA when I did DSO and it worked a treat!
@DylanODonnell oooooh right I had forgotten! Esatto for the win! I was thinking of people using an EAF (gasp!) on the main focusing knob (ugh!) with mirror flop and shift (barf!)
@@CuivTheLazyGeek yeh that’s why this auto guide and auto run for me is a game changer .. set the focus points per filter .. hit go… walk away! Used to be a fight with the EAF!
Your getting some great results Dylan!. The planetary stuff is a whole different ball game right. I would recommend giving Sharpcap's Planetary tracking/stacking/enhancement feature a go. Its very good. And fast!. If nothing else you can use it for checking seeing without diving in and out of other programs.
Hello Dylan, Thank you and bravo for this tutorial, it's always good to understand ALL the steps! I've started planetary, well, lunar (but I'm also interested in big planets), because until now I've only done deep sky. For this use (on top of my refractors dedicated to deep sky and my RC8), I have an AZ EQ6, a Mak 180, and a 200mm focal length Svbony guide scope fitted with an ASI 220MM, I've struggled to get the same field of view, it's not perfect but I'm not far off. On the other hand, I didn't understand in the video what you use to Goto and target Jupiter on top of the camera dedicated to imaging Jupiter with FireCapture? With NINA and the Mak, I can't do the polar alignement and therefore use TPPA (it even fails with 30sec exposure), is this necessary, or do you point the planets directly with the object you're looking for in NINA? Obviously, I'm stuck for this step when I want to do lunar so i "manually" move the Mak as I coudln't figure out how to do that otherwise withot prcise goto as with deep sky imaging... Thanks for your advice, and if you could do a little focus on this “targeting” with such even higher focal lengths as on your C14, that would be great! I'm using NINA, FireCapture, but I just need to master this targeting step to get started! Philippe
Hi Philippe! Good news.. I recently did a video on this! ua-cam.com/video/anDF_39fA_4/v-deo.html .. the only thing I don't do in the video is plate solve in NINA with the finder scope, but once it was setup, that was an easy next step :) The problem of course, is that you have to keep the digital finder scope 100% locked down .. if you bump it.. it won't be aligned.
Excellent video. I appreciated getting a sense of your workflow. Your enthusiasm is evident, so have fun with it! Off topic: what do you usually play in response to 1 d4?
Oh wow that Moon surface detail!!?? Incredible!! Dylan I'm currently saving for an 11" SCT but in my heart I know I will never be truly satisfied until I own the 14" version! ( or will I be?? I've seen a now discontinued Meade 16" SCT! 🤩 LOL that aperture fever is contagious mate! 😂 ) Love your enthusiasm for your new 'scope, it's always super exciting when we get a new piece of gear, especially a new 'scope! And as always thank you for the awesome content my friend! Wes, Liverpool, England.
The 11 is great too and honestly I could’ve pushed it harder for planets. I definitely did some of my best work on the 11! Thanks for all your support Wes!
@@DylanODonnell Aww thanks for the encouragement/advice Dylan! I can't wait to get the 11" early next year! And you most certainly did produce some gorgous results with your 11"! 😊👍
I try to let software normalise each channel separately then run “auto color” in PS which tries to balance them. I usually find that a bit blue biased so I dial that back a touch. I say this but you’ll find some variance in mine too.. especially if I change the lum from R to G or some exotic combination of them.
I prefer Chateau Wuga Wuga over the Shiraz. The bottle neck is nicely formed, suitable for hand-to-hand combat, and the wine itself really opens up the sluices at both ends.
Some pretty amazing images with that giant mutherscope! ya know it’s actually pretty darn cool when you use your eye to watch a transit happen in real time, try it one day.
For DSO stuff I'm a bit more pedantic .. but for lunar, solar and planetary it literally doesn't make a scrap of difference. If I lived in the city I'd be a planetary photographer full time! When I do DSO stuff, I turn off al the house lights near the obs :)
Amazing!!! I know it would be a pain in the ass, but a comparison video done with a color camera would be nice. Who knows, you might convince some of us one shot color apes to switch and generate some hightpoint link sales ;)
Merry Christmas mate. How are you handling that East coast jet stream? I think Damien and Chris use cold packs to help bring down the temperature of the tube quicker from memory. Congrats on the 14" it's a bloody beast. I don't envy your mount.
@@DylanODonnell I'm sure I remember a BBC interview with Damien where he talks about ice or cold packs on his scope. I'm not really doing any astro stuff anymore and haven't for near 3 years now - more into bird photography. It's too much of a p.i.t.a to set up the scope every night, then tear it down etc. No chance of a observatory for a variety of reasons, and my house block is really BAD in terms of seeing the sky. 2 bright street lights directly to the South (for a small 50m long cul de sac). Ipswich council screwing crap up. I asked for a review and was told that the lumens were acceptable range and pedestrians were more important than me wanting to view the night sky to the South. Even the bright stars of crux are basically invisible. I wonder how they'd feel if I refused to pay my land rates...
Nice video, and good results...maybe someday I also need a massive scope I have seen many people use some one shot color cams to do planetary nowadays, they have gotten so good that noise isnt really a problem anymore, maybe that could make processing much more enjoyable and easy? Particularily one of the best planetary imagers I have seen on discord uses a OSC cam, so I think it is worth it to investigate a bit
Try an ASI678 one shot colour camera, the tiny pixels are giving me good results even though I've only got a C8, an atmospheric dispersion corrector can help too, but it would require you to be more hands on through the night
Actually everything I used in this video is free .. NINA, FireCapture, Autostakkert, astrosurface, registax and winjupos. And they aren’t sub par either, these are the tools professionals prefer generally!
Thank you! While a 2D stacked photo of Jupiter is nice to frame on your wall, some of us prefer the spirtual connection you get viewing photons real time via a glass lens. Next, try shooting The Trapezium Cluster of stars A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H1, H2, and I?
Set it up so you can make a video of Jupiter turning. I think you can just shot it in "color" and skip the RGB. It's rotating too fast to stack RGB and make a pretty shot, right?
You can stack each of those r g b runs because they’re in sequence and make a good high quality animation of rotation.. lot of work but totally possible !
Doing planetary with a mono cam and filters- is a difficulty level I haven't tried yet. It's like when osc imaging stuff on my poor seeing - light polluted sky wasn't masochistic enough, there is another level to it I have yet to explore. 😄
Our little house in Spain is great for clear skies but council put up lots of high intensity(energy saving!!!) street lights .On the plus side red wine at 14.5 % is 8 euros for 5 litres..
Thanks! The AP stack bit doesn’t really take any time at all. A few seconds. It’s analysing the 2gb 16bit file over the network that is the biggest bottleneck.
@ the other issue I’ve found, when using too many APs, is a mosaic effect - like AS ‘clips’ a portion of a frame out. When using wavelets, the surrounding box of the clip is IMMEDIATELY apparent. It’s an effect that happens regularly to me on stacked lunar landscapes, but also occasionally on planets if my AP points are too small. On my CPC1100 and ASI678 camera, I’ve pretty much settled on an AP size of 72px with a target of between 35 and 45 points. With a C14, YMMV.
oh its like negative 1000 degrees here. Cold enough that i would have battery problems if i tried to do anything with my telescope. I wish I lived in Australia.
I think of you as someone who goes the extra mile to get things right, but come on!, drinking wine out of a tumbler? wine glasses are available you know?, love the video!
Damien says take it to top of a mountain in the Canaries during high pressure weather system with planet closest to us and high up!! Never going to happen in Manchester UK then!
you probably get better results if you don't shoot through the atmosphere. Have you considered launching the scope into orbit? I think NASA has done something like that before
It's just better! When you see the difference between filters it's quite profound. Being able to use R ar G as the Lum makes a huge difference. Mono is always better, even if it is more work.
South Aussie wine, well done mate. Not a wine drinker myself but we (SA) do make some of the best :D Awesome jupiter mate, congrats on the whole setup.
Having done outreach for about 40 years now, I have to disagree about the best planet. Saturn is the one that always illicits, “ oh my God!” from first time viewers.
Nice results! The good thing about planetary imaging is that, while the process has a lot of steps, it is mainly the same every night. I like to use OSC instead of mono, because it makes things much easier, but it is undeniable that the results you can get with mono are better. Now that you are hooked on planetary, you can try the jackpot: several alignments of Jupiter moons, including shadows from moons on Jupiter and even on other moons... ua-cam.com/video/qjUVlD7KLRs/v-deo.html
I see what you meant by bad seeing. Your quality graph on Autostakert was terrible. When my graphs are this bad I delete that particular file. Keep grinding away Dylan as that special night is sure to arrive.
I can't believe this Dylan, I cannot believe you would say something as controversial, as DIVISIVE... as saying that jupiter is better than saturn.. which is OBVIOUSLY false, you can't even see jupiters rings what is this, that's shite! /s
Great to see your son looking so happy and healthy!
Another video treat! As are others, I’m thoroughly enjoying your enthusiasm with the new rig. Your stuff is always a treat so it’s nice to get more! Bravo!
Thanks! Still just having a lot of fun! My asteroid impact detection stats are definitely going up this season too :)
Currently my biggest telescope is a Questar 3.5 so I’ve learned to be a big fan of Jupiter. Looking forward to more from you and your massive aperture.
Fantastic man, these are looking really good!
Hey Dylan. Love watching your journey with the 14”. Wishing you and the family a Happy Christmas 🙂
Thx .. merry Christmas buddy !
It's great to see an experienced astrophotographer work through a new system (planetary) because I can use your learnings right along side my own.
Keep up the great progress!
Happy to see you diving into a new aspect of AP... looking forward to the progress and beautiful images.
Thanks mate !
That 14 is awesome. Great work mate. 😃👍🍷
Cheers man ! 🍻
Very awesome, Dylan! Great vid:)
Thx Tammy!
I'm in the same boat Dylan. Back in August I found a used C14 and I've been working on planetary since. Seeing is everything in this game and most of the time it is crap here in Wisconsin. I look forward to watching your journey.
Nice work! Weather and seeing here have been rubbish, my one C14 excursion at Jupiter opposition was pretty terrible (and freezing cold). Glad you're getting some great results! Happy Holidays all!
Shiraz is the ideal varietal for making Hungarian goulash, but a Belgian Ale is superior for planetary imaging. Good job !
I'm a white person myself. I don't mind a good sav blanc myself, which is Australia's other national drink
A big telescope for a big planet! Great results.
Thanks !
Very nice! In case we don't hear of you anymore this year: merry christmas, happy newyear and clear skies to you and the family Dylan!
Merry Christmas to you also!
Thank you Dylan for the educational video. I happen to use a skywatcher 180 maksutov and the images of the Celestron are amazing.
Hey thanks !
Bloody awesome mate hmmm I think I'm gonna have to sell some body parts for a C14, hope you all have a great Christmas & look forward to catching up with more of your content in the new year.
Great results on all the images.
Thank you!
I’m not even going to try and make some lame joke such as “He plugs Shiraz and chugs Cab” or something
That’s just objectively a beautiful image.
Well done!
Super video 🎉
The surface detail on the moon was a treat
Awesome image Dylan. Merry Christmas
Thanks Craig! 🍻
Nice video Dylan and perfect timing. I'm taking delivery of my Skymax 127 mak scope tomorrow followed soon after by a 2x focal extender. I’ve decided to have a go at planetary after spending the last 3 years in DSO territory. Of course I wont be able to compete with your rig, but I'm looking forward to the challenge.
Congrats! Honestly knowing what I know now I reckon I could've done better work with the C11 even.
Those images look amazing! Well done!
Thanks !
Excellent stuff Dylan!
Maybe 18 years ago, out in the desert south of Phoenix at a star party the gang (well, mainly me) woke up and found Jupiter straight up. In the 16" dob and the 11" NexStar Jupiter was showing detail I've never seen before or since. Totally spoiled me right there.
Sitting in windy, rainy Seattle (on the longest night of the year), thoroughly enjoying your latest video (as well as, by coincidence, a tumbler of a quite tasty Washington state Cab), I raise my glass in the general direction of Australia. Cheers, mate!
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@@DylanODonnell Cheers guys! Another sad rainy Seattle here. I'm starting to feel that my telescope hates me, it's been so long we've been out.
Well done possum, awesome setup you have now, the dome, the scope, the automation process, one can only follow your progress with admiration and eagerly await your next upload... I remember seeing Jupiter live through my LS"6 and a simple meade LPG colour camera for the first time back in 2015... I had no idea how to really use the fire capture software back then, but there's just something mesmerising about seeing the plants and their moons live on screen....
The 10inch LX850 f8 ota arrived this week... In the words of the film JAWS "your gonna need a bigger boat"... I'm gonna need a bigger mount,,,, so now to slowly build a new setup over 2025... 😊 Happy Christmas Mr D & Family... May the star God's now forgive you for all those 14 inches before marriage 😂😅😂😊
Haha thanks Jez! Good luck with your 2025 goals!
Well done mate, your kicking goals.
Damo
Cheers man!
Awesome - I'd love to see more on the workflow/processing with the Registax alternatives once you figure out what works best for you.
Thx! Yes there might be something as I dog deeper.
DIG!
4:23 is the best part!
Awesome work, love the video and the results!
Does the C14 come with 5/5 seeing out of the box or is that available as a separate purchase? 😊
Question on the focus points per filter: how does it deal with focuser backlash? Does firecapture have overshoot backlash? Or does it rely on absolute focuser backlash set in the ASCOM driver (which would be annoying)?
Hey Cuiv! Since swapping to the esatto so the focuser is in the image train I think backlash is effectively zero. That’s what I set it to in NINA when I did DSO and it worked a treat!
@DylanODonnell oooooh right I had forgotten! Esatto for the win! I was thinking of people using an EAF (gasp!) on the main focusing knob (ugh!) with mirror flop and shift (barf!)
@@CuivTheLazyGeek yeh that’s why this auto guide and auto run for me is a game changer .. set the focus points per filter .. hit go… walk away! Used to be a fight with the EAF!
@@DylanODonnell for real, the results are insane, you make me want to spend on a C11 (because C14 is for insane people :) )
@ hehehe
WELDONE MATE!
YOU ARE AN ABSOLUTE LEGEND.
I APPRECIATE YOUR EXTRAORDINARY IMAGES OF JUPITER!
MANY BLESSINGS,
A. SORAYA
🔮🍹🔭🎁✨🎄🎅❄️🌎
Thank you!
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Your getting some great results Dylan!. The planetary stuff is a whole different ball game right. I would recommend giving Sharpcap's Planetary tracking/stacking/enhancement feature a go.
Its very good. And fast!. If nothing else you can use it for checking seeing without diving in and out of other programs.
I will definitely give it a spin thx :)
Hello Dylan,
Thank you and bravo for this tutorial, it's always good to understand ALL the steps!
I've started planetary, well, lunar (but I'm also interested in big planets), because until now I've only done deep sky.
For this use (on top of my refractors dedicated to deep sky and my RC8), I have an AZ EQ6, a Mak 180, and a 200mm focal length Svbony guide scope fitted with an ASI 220MM, I've struggled to get the same field of view, it's not perfect but I'm not far off.
On the other hand, I didn't understand in the video what you use to Goto and target Jupiter on top of the camera dedicated to imaging Jupiter with FireCapture?
With NINA and the Mak, I can't do the polar alignement and therefore use TPPA (it even fails with 30sec exposure), is this necessary, or do you point the planets directly with the object you're looking for in NINA?
Obviously, I'm stuck for this step when I want to do lunar so i "manually" move the Mak as I coudln't figure out how to do that otherwise withot prcise goto as with deep sky imaging...
Thanks for your advice, and if you could do a little focus on this “targeting” with such even higher focal lengths as on your C14, that would be great!
I'm using NINA, FireCapture, but I just need to master this targeting step to get started!
Philippe
Hi Philippe! Good news.. I recently did a video on this! ua-cam.com/video/anDF_39fA_4/v-deo.html .. the only thing I don't do in the video is plate solve in NINA with the finder scope, but once it was setup, that was an easy next step :) The problem of course, is that you have to keep the digital finder scope 100% locked down .. if you bump it.. it won't be aligned.
Excellent video. I appreciated getting a sense of your workflow. Your enthusiasm is evident, so have fun with it! Off topic: what do you usually play in response to 1 d4?
Thanks! Good question.. I dabbled in Caro but I alternate to Sicilian sometimes and I don’t truly understand either !
Have you given Sharpcap's planetary wavelet sharpening a try yet? I've used it on the moon and it looks great. I don't have a scope for planetary atm.
Oh wow that Moon surface detail!!?? Incredible!! Dylan I'm currently saving for an 11" SCT but in my heart I know I will never be truly satisfied until I own the 14" version! ( or will I be?? I've seen a now discontinued Meade 16" SCT! 🤩 LOL that aperture fever is contagious mate! 😂 )
Love your enthusiasm for your new 'scope, it's always super exciting when we get a new piece of gear, especially a new 'scope! And as always thank you for the awesome content my friend!
Wes, Liverpool, England.
The 11 is great too and honestly I could’ve pushed it harder for planets. I definitely did some of my best work on the 11! Thanks for all your support Wes!
@@DylanODonnell Aww thanks for the encouragement/advice Dylan! I can't wait to get the 11" early next year! And you most certainly did produce some gorgous results with your 11"! 😊👍
Great video Dylan. I believe Damian Peach used to put damp beer towels over his tube to cool it down. Jus' saying...
Nice :)
Damn those images are fantastic. Details on moons of Jove..awesome. ❤
Thanks !
How do you decide how to process colors? Every photo I see online of a planet is different.
I try to let software normalise each channel separately then run “auto color” in PS which tries to balance them. I usually find that a bit blue biased so I dial that back a touch. I say this but you’ll find some variance in mine too.. especially if I change the lum from R to G or some exotic combination of them.
I prefer Chateau Wuga Wuga over the Shiraz. The bottle neck is nicely formed, suitable for hand-to-hand combat, and the wine itself really opens up the sluices at both ends.
Astronomy juice. Yay!
🍷
Shiraz, yes please....but, but you grabbed the cab sauv? Helps focus the red channel better?
Both faves .. and Merlot !
Some pretty amazing images with that giant mutherscope! ya know it’s actually pretty darn cool when you use your eye to watch a transit happen in real time, try it one day.
But then I’d need to put an eyepiece on. Hehe
during your time-lapse I noticed the light bleed thru on the dome, ever thought about flocking the inside of the observatory?
For DSO stuff I'm a bit more pedantic .. but for lunar, solar and planetary it literally doesn't make a scrap of difference. If I lived in the city I'd be a planetary photographer full time! When I do DSO stuff, I turn off al the house lights near the obs :)
Awesome, the wine I mean, Jupiter looks ok to 😉
Hehe
Amazing!!! I know it would be a pain in the ass, but a comparison video done with a color camera would be nice. Who knows, you might convince some of us one shot color apes to switch and generate some hightpoint link sales ;)
Merry Christmas mate. How are you handling that East coast jet stream? I think Damien and Chris use cold packs to help bring down the temperature of the tube quicker from memory. Congrats on the 14" it's a bloody beast. I don't envy your mount.
Yeh some nights are terrible! The jet stream moves off sometimes tho. I should try ice!
@@DylanODonnell I'm sure I remember a BBC interview with Damien where he talks about ice or cold packs on his scope. I'm not really doing any astro stuff anymore and haven't for near 3 years now - more into bird photography. It's too much of a p.i.t.a to set up the scope every night, then tear it down etc. No chance of a observatory for a variety of reasons, and my house block is really BAD in terms of seeing the sky. 2 bright street lights directly to the South (for a small 50m long cul de sac). Ipswich council screwing crap up. I asked for a review and was told that the lumens were acceptable range and pedestrians were more important than me wanting to view the night sky to the South. Even the bright stars of crux are basically invisible. I wonder how they'd feel if I refused to pay my land rates...
Nice video, and good results...maybe someday I also need a massive scope
I have seen many people use some one shot color cams to do planetary nowadays, they have gotten so good that noise isnt really a problem anymore, maybe that could make processing much more enjoyable and easy?
Particularily one of the best planetary imagers I have seen on discord uses a OSC cam, so I think it is worth it to investigate a bit
Yeh it’s certainly easier with OSC!
oww yeah,thats how big scopes performance..lovely. happy christmas all !!!
Merry Christmas !
Try an ASI678 one shot colour camera, the tiny pixels are giving me good results even though I've only got a C8, an atmospheric dispersion corrector can help too, but it would require you to be more hands on through the night
Yeh an ADC would be essential .. my seeing is so poor I tend to use R or G as lum though to get a better result.
Hello Dylan, I am new to this astro using telescope, is fire capture Free software or we need to purchase it?
Actually everything I used in this video is free .. NINA, FireCapture, Autostakkert, astrosurface, registax and winjupos. And they aren’t sub par either, these are the tools professionals prefer generally!
Looking great! Curious how much work it would be to make a color animation with a mono camera.
It’s a bit time consuming .. but possible ! And the results are amazing.
Hell yeah right before sleep some star stuff
Sleep well :)
Thank you! While a 2D stacked photo of Jupiter is nice to frame on your wall, some of us prefer the spirtual connection you get viewing photons real time via a glass lens. Next, try shooting The Trapezium Cluster of stars A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H1, H2, and I?
How about a 3D stereogram animation?
How about deep sky mosaics? Just imagine the details you can get with this beast.
Hah true !
Is there something better for planetary than an SCT or is that typically better because of the long FL?
As long as it has the focal length I assume but I have no experience!
There's always watering down the roof to cool it during sunset. Tell the wife you are growing a second floor.
Hehe I have been known to crack out the hose !
@@DylanODonnell New Years I have to wet the roof. Neighbors ought to work for NASA they launch so much.
nice work...haven't seen a star here in Michigan for 2 months.
Heh it’s been bad here too!
Set it up so you can make a video of Jupiter turning. I think you can just shot it in "color" and skip the RGB. It's rotating too fast to stack RGB and make a pretty shot, right?
You can stack each of those r g b runs because they’re in sequence and make a good high quality animation of rotation.. lot of work but totally possible !
Props 👏
Doing planetary with a mono cam and filters- is a difficulty level I haven't tried yet.
It's like when osc imaging stuff on my poor seeing - light polluted sky wasn't masochistic enough, there is another level to it I have yet to explore. 😄
Hehe I find it easier with mono. The edges and clarity is just so much better in the pure red channel.
Fun eh? What is your imaging train & camera you are using in this video? Barlow?
Esatto Focuser -> ZWO EFW filter wheel -> QHY678M Camera ... no Barlow. Fully native. No underpants.
Our little house in Spain is great for clear skies but council put up lots of high intensity(energy saving!!!) street lights .On the plus side red wine at 14.5 % is 8 euros for 5 litres..
the good thing is that light pollution doesn't really make a difference for planetary :)
I'm just starting to get into planetary and it's been challenging
It really is !
No Barlow! Love it, thanks.
Fully native! No underpants !
Dylan, in AutoStakkert, you really don’t need more than about 40 alignment points. Your processing will speed up markedly.
Thanks! The AP stack bit doesn’t really take any time at all. A few seconds. It’s analysing the 2gb 16bit file over the network that is the biggest bottleneck.
@ the other issue I’ve found, when using too many APs, is a mosaic effect - like AS ‘clips’ a portion of a frame out. When using wavelets, the surrounding box of the clip is IMMEDIATELY apparent.
It’s an effect that happens regularly to me on stacked lunar landscapes, but also occasionally on planets if my AP points are too small.
On my CPC1100 and ASI678 camera, I’ve pretty much settled on an AP size of 72px with a target of between 35 and 45 points.
With a C14, YMMV.
Super!
"with a glass of Shiraz cos it's out national wine" ... goes out an buys a Cabernet .... sigh
great images, what an awesome scope.
I told YOU to go get a shiraz 😂
@@DylanODonnell I was instantly queued on the same observation as @Rostol, but I see now you are just working your export business - all is forgiven.
Please make a video like this on planet Mars, and also pls map the surface of Mars!!!
I’ll try ! It’s next in line :)
"it's actually Jupiter" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Haha yes
Cool pics. But why not image in OSC? Makes life 10x easier.
Mono gets better detail :)
oh its like negative 1000 degrees here. Cold enough that i would have battery problems if i tried to do anything with my telescope. I wish I lived in Australia.
I guess i would have less atmospheric turbulence but I would need like heated gloves or I would be absolutely miserable.
Yeh the cold shuts down my brain and enthusiasm !
Aah alcohol one way to make my blurry stars look sharp ;)
It's a small portable scope!
I think of you as someone who goes the extra mile to get things right, but come on!, drinking wine out of a tumbler? wine glasses are available you know?, love the video!
Ahem! It’s a stemless wine glass! When you are a TRUE alcoholic you need to take these precautions. :)
@@DylanODonnell Sure the wine tastes just as good, Merry Christmas and thanks for your efforts, looking forward to the coming year!
Damien says take it to top of a mountain in the Canaries during high pressure weather system with planet closest to us and high up!! Never going to happen in Manchester UK then!
LOL yeh I'm way too lazy for that. I'll wait for the good conditions to come to me (which might be once every few years - but I'll be ready!)
Que sueño tener uno, yo este 2025 ire por mi C8 Edge, es el ideal para mi.
Congrats!
you probably get better results if you don't shoot through the atmosphere. Have you considered launching the scope into orbit? I think NASA has done something like that before
That's why my shots suck. Wine not whiskey. 😅 I knew it was jupiter. ❤❤❤
Try some planetary nebulae!
I certainly will!
Saturn. My wife agrees with you.
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I have a really good tip!
Never wear your wellies in the bath...
Man, I just bought a new mount that could absolutely handle a C14. Don't make me spend more money.....
Oh man ... you know you want to... (use my affiliate link lol)
Jupiter 🙂
imagine this scope with sub arcsecond seeing conditions
I know right .. this is just average to bad seeing most nights here.
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The real challenge is to capture Uranus...
that poor seeing likely the downside to living a stones throw from one of the best stretches of coastline in australia :P
It sure is hah my luxury prison
So it IS all about size
Yep :)
U have a C14 wouldn't have known 😂
Dude .. you’re never going to believe this …
Need to ask the wife for a separate 14 for each color channel 😅
Hahaha
Mono planetary imaging makes no sense to me.
It's just better! When you see the difference between filters it's quite profound. Being able to use R ar G as the Lum makes a huge difference. Mono is always better, even if it is more work.
South Aussie wine, well done mate. Not a wine drinker myself but we (SA) do make some of the best :D Awesome jupiter mate, congrats on the whole setup.
It’s a good one actually! Especially for the price.
Having done outreach for about 40 years now, I have to disagree about the best planet. Saturn is the one that always illicits, “ oh my God!” from first time viewers.
Yes we have to forgive them their saturnalia.
Nice results! The good thing about planetary imaging is that, while the process has a lot of steps, it is mainly the same every night. I like to use OSC instead of mono, because it makes things much easier, but it is undeniable that the results you can get with mono are better.
Now that you are hooked on planetary, you can try the jackpot: several alignments of Jupiter moons, including shadows from moons on Jupiter and even on other moons... ua-cam.com/video/qjUVlD7KLRs/v-deo.html
Yep! Moon transits and planetary weather .. fun!
I know i yelled at you over your politics and that's just because they suck. 😆 kidding but your channel is great man thanks
Haha cheers mate
I see what you meant by bad seeing. Your quality graph on Autostakert was terrible. When my graphs are this bad I delete that particular file. Keep grinding away Dylan as that special night is sure to arrive.
Yep .. I don't live in an ideal location!
Do you a bronce for the third comment? 😅
Yes but you missed it haha
Second I guess 😭
silver 🥈
I can't believe this Dylan, I cannot believe you would say something as controversial, as DIVISIVE... as saying that jupiter is better than saturn.. which is OBVIOUSLY false, you can't even see jupiters rings what is this, that's shite!
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