Observing Log for Mike Durkin


10/27-28/2023 about 10:30PM-1:00AM
Locust Valley, NY
Transparency: 9/10, Seeing 3/5
Temperature: about 55-65 degrees
Equipment: Celestron Ultima 8 with PEC

Basically a full moon tonight, but I wanted to get some more practice using the ASIAir.
First did some visual observing of Jupter and the moon with the 6.7mm eyepiece. Jupiter showed all 4 moons plus some background stars in the same field of view. I also took a look at the moon, which did have some craters in shadows near the edge. I took a couple of pictures with my iPhone, which came out imuch better than I expected. I also tried to take a picture of Jupiter with my iPhone and that did not come out as well.
Then I set up the ASIAir to start taking pictures with the ASI 174 mini. I took a few videos of Jupiter and the moon using the camera and a 5x Barlow lens.

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Location: Long Island, NY
Camera: iPhone 11 Pro
Telescope: Celestron Ultima 8 with PEC.
Image of the area around crater Hevelius taken using an iPhone 11 Pro through a 6.7 mm eyepiece.

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Location: Long Island, NY
Camera: iPhone 11 Pro
Telescope: Celestron Ultima 8 with PEC.
Image of the area around crater Eddington taken using an iPhone 11 Pro through a 6.7 mm eyepiece.

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Location: Long Island, NY
Camera: iPhone 11 Pro
Telescope: Celestron Ultima 8 with PEC.
Image of the area around crater Pythagoras taken using an iPhone 11 Pro through a 6.7 mm eyepiece.

Hevelius-2
Location: Long Island, NY
Camera: ASI174MM Mini
Telescope: Celestron Ultima 8 with PEC.
Additional into: Info obtained using ASIAir Plus. About 104 frames. Stacked using AutoStakkert 3.1.4. Wavelet processing using Registax.

Hevelius-1
Location: Long Island, NY
Camera: ASI174MM Mini
Telescope: Celestron Ultima 8 with PEC.
Additional into: Info obtained using ASIAir Plus. About 104 frames. Stacked using AutoStakkert 3.1.4. Wavelet processing using Registax.

Pythagoras-1
Location: Long Island, NY
Camera: ASI174MM Mini
Telescope: Celestron Ultima 8 with PEC.
Additional into: Info obtained using ASIAir Plus. About 75 frames. Stacked using AutoStakkert 3.1.4. Wavelet processing using Registax.

Jupiter 2023-10-27-235459
Location: Long Island, NY
Camera: ASI174MM Mini with 5x barlow lens
Telescope: Celestron Ultima 8 with PEC.
Additional into: images obtained using ASIAir Plus. About 250 frames. Stacked using AutoStakkert 3.1.4. Wavelet processing using Registax. Image scale increased by about 40% using GIMP.

jupiter-animated 2023-10-27
Location: Long Island, NY
Camera: ASI174MM Mini with 5x barlow lens
Telescope: Celestron Ultima 8 with PEC.
Additional into: images obtained using ASIAir Plus. Stacked using AutoStakkert 3.1.4. Wavelet processing using Registax. Image scale increased by about 40% and 3 frame combined to make an animated GIF using GIMP.

Then just for curiosity I wanted to see if I could take a longer image of the area around the Flaming Star nebula. I'm a bit concerned that the plate solve feature on the ASIAir didn't quite work the way I was expecting, but I'll have to check again when using a DSLR.
I should try out using the RGB color filters on Jupiter the next time I try to take a video of Jupiter or Saturn.




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