Imaged at Perth Observatory on their equipment, as my NEQ6 mount was out of action with a failed mainboard. Captured with BackyardEOS 5X Planetary mode - 500 frames @ ISO1600 at 1/3200 sec. Video cropped with Video Castrator Post Processed with Registax 6 to stack best 20% (100) frames and with Wavelet processing. Further processed with Adobe Photoshop CC 2022 Telescope - Meade LX200-ACF 14" f/10 F-3556mm, Long Perng 0.6x APO Focal Reducer,No filter, Canon 60D DSLR field 35' x 25' , Ambient ~20C. Meade Fork mount with EQ X-Wedge with siderial tracking, no guiding. BackYardEOS 3.2 for image capture.
Near Full Moon - testing StellarMate automation. Coma visible in TL,BL but little TR/BR implies skewed L-R focal plane. This cropped version shows 5 Moons - Umbriel (2 o'clock to Uranus); Titania; Miranda; Ariel; Oberon (in a line from 5 O'clock to 10 O'Clock) DeepSkyStacker 4.2.6 Stacked 80% (15) of 19 Images Gain 100 @ 90 Sec, 35 DARK Gain 100 @ 60 Sec, 35 BIAS Gain 100 @ 1/1000 Sec, 19 FLATS GAIN 100 @ 1/2500 Sec, Post-processed with Adobe Photoshop CC 2022 Telescope - PowerNewt 200mm f/4 with 2" TeleVue 2X PowerMate for F=1600mm f/8.0, IDAS NB1 filter, QHY 268C CMOS camera field 34' x 51' , Ambient ~20C, Camera 0C. StellarMate on RP-4B with Kstars/Ekos for EQMOD mount control, auto-focusing, plate solving and image acquisition. Mount - Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro. Guidescope - Orion ShortTube 80 with Starlight Xpress SuperStar (Mono) CCD Auto Guider and Ekos auto guiding software.
Near Full Moon - testing StellarMate automation. Coma visible in TL,BL but little TR/BR implies skewed L-R focal plane. See cropped version to see the 5 Moons - Umbriel; Titania; Miranda; Ariel; Oberon DeepSkyStacker 4.2.6 Stacked 80% (15) of 19 Images Gain 100 @ 90 Sec, 35 DARK Gain 100 @ 60 Sec, 35 BIAS Gain 100 @ 1/1000 Sec, 19 FLATS GAIN 100 @ 1/2500 Sec, Post-processed with Adobe Photoshop CC 2022 Telescope - PowerNewt 200mm f/4 with 2" TeleVue 2X PowerMate for F=1600mm f/8.0, IDAS NB1 filter, QHY 268C CMOS camera field 34' x 51' , Ambient ~20C, Camera 0C. StellarMate on RP-4B with Kstars/Ekos for EQMOD mount control, auto-focusing, plate solving and image acquisition. Mount - Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro. Guidescope - Orion ShortTube 80 with Starlight Xpress SuperStar (Mono) CCD Auto Guider and Ekos auto guiding software.
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