Auriga with Mars (astropical)

Auriga with Mars

Hello, out there, hope you are all keeping well.

The other day, my telescope dealer in Tokyo was wondering why I have not been shopping toys for a long while. Well, weather is one thing, the other is the current weakness of the Japanese Yen against the US$, Euro, etc.

Wow, a few hours without clouds since weeks. Actually, the unit is months, but I don't want to be nagative while COP27 is working so hard also for astrophotographers. I can't wait for COP99.

So, get off the sofa out into the warm and humid night. It was like an early summer night, absurdly unusual for November while convenience stores are selling Christmas trees and Santa-shaped chocolate.

With over 85% humidity a hair dryer is indispensable, but you need another hair dryer to keep that hair dryer dry. What a wet mess. Anyway, time was precious, so I imaged as much as possible until clouds came back at around 2:00am.

Jupiter showed up okay in spite of poor seeing. That was before collimation. After a failed collimation, Mars came out poorly after heavy deringing in Registax, barely enough for an inset. The Double Cluster in the revision too was imaged with poor collimation. Although the 120mm guide scope is too short for a C8 (1:17), guiding was quite accurate probably because the guide camera is monochrome and has small pixels (IMX178).

The constellation of Auriga was taken with a standard 50mm lens luxuriously piggybacked on an auto-guided C8. Auriga catches the eye as Mars is currently located nearby (the brightest star on the image at the right). For those who can't see the constellation because of too many stars, Capella is the bright, white star at the top left.

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