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First Jupiter of 2022 (not a good one), Jesco

First Jupiter of 2022 (not a good one)

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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My first attempt at planetary in 2022. And like last year, I've forgotten so much.

First time using my HEQ5 with the handcontroller. And - alas - I couldn't get it to work properly. All slews were way off by 30-40° (despite being polar-aligned and scope pointing to the NCP within a few degrees). I am still not sure what happened there. Collimated on Capella in poor seeing - I would have loved to choose another star at the zenith but since my gotos were way off I didn't dare. Couldn't really setup my ADC the usual way in FireCapture so I resorted to SharpCap. The only thing that went well was focusing. Now I know all my focus offset between the different imaging trains.

So this is the result. A 3x180s WinJUPOS derotation. Captured at 4600mm and 0.17"/px but downsampled to 0.33"/px due to the lower quality. I don't like overmagnifying things.

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First Jupiter of 2022 (not a good one), Jesco

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