A poor image this night, perhaps the conditions, perhaps impatience regarding attention to good focus? See also cropped version. Captured with BackyardEOS 5X Planetary mode - 700 frames @ ISO2500 at 1/30 sec. Video copped by Video Castrator Post Processed with Registax 6 to stack best 10% (70) frames and with Wavelet processing. Further processed with Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 Telescope - PowerNewt 200mm f/4 with Televue 4X 2" Powermate f/16 FL=3200mm, No filter, Baader BCF modified Canon 70D DSLR field 16' x 24' , Ambient ~11C. EQMOD EQASCOM with Ascom 6 for mount control. Backyard EOS Pro 3.1.2 for Image acquisition. Mount - Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro.
Set up early afternoon (3:33PM) for evening capture of Venus and Jupiter conjunction. This was 3 days before closest approach. Post processed with Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 Telescope - PowerNewt 200mm f/4 with PowerNewt(ASA) f/2.84 Reducer/Coma Corrector,No filter, Baader BCF modified Canon 70D DSLR field 90' x 134' , Ambient ~xxC. EQMOD EQASCOM with Ascom 6 for mount control. Backyard EOS Pro 3.1.2 for Image acquisition. Mount - Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro. Guidescope - Orion ShortTube 80 with Starlight Xpress SuperStar (Mono) CCD Auto Guider and Stark Labs PHD auto guiding software.
Twilight (5:35PM) capture of Venus and Jupiter conjunction. This was 3 days before closest approach. Cropped version showing Jupiter and its 4 Galilean Moons. See also uncropped version for Venus separation ~93 arcmin. Post processed with Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 Telescope - PowerNewt 200mm f/4 with PowerNewt(ASA) f/2.84 Reducer/Coma Corrector,No filter, Baader BCF modified Canon 70D DSLR field 90' x 134' , Ambient ~xxC. EQMOD EQASCOM with Ascom 6 for mount control. Backyard EOS Pro 3.1.2 for Image acquisition. Mount - Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro. Guidescope - Orion ShortTube 80 with Starlight Xpress SuperStar (Mono) CCD Auto Guider and Stark Labs PHD auto guiding software.
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