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Jupiter 10-02-2022 with C8, Marc Dickinson

Jupiter 10-02-2022 with C8

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Not a great image but I'm happy with it.  Still learning planetary imaging, it’s fun but has a lot of trial-and-error and I’ve discovered the processing can be just as tricky and tedious as deep sky. This image is with an old 1975-76 C8, back when it was ‘Celestron Pacific’. I’ve been using it because I haven’t been able to get a good image with my C14, they all turn out soft and blurry.  I get better results with my C8 under identical conditions, I don’t know why.  Both scopes are 1976 vintage.  The C8 is older and doesn’t even have coatings on the corrector, glass only.  Either the C14 has a problem or I’m doing something wrong, likely the latter.  I welcome any suggestions.

I didn’t use FireCapture because I didn’t want to sit outside with my laptop and the mosquitos, so I used the video mode on my ASIAIR and sat inside with my phone.I did forty 60 second videos at ~50 to 60 frames per second, stacked 45% of each .asi video with autostakkert, did some light wavelets with Registax then converted the ASIAIR file name date to WinJupos file name date and stacked the 40 .png files with WinJupos.  

Info in .avi.txt file from  ZWO ASIAIR Pro:
[ZWO ASI462MC]
Bin = 1
Capture Area Size = 640 * 480
Colour Format = RAW8
Exposure = 0.003 Sec
Flip = None
Gain = 335
StartX = 648
StartY = 308
Temperature = 23.2 C
Bayer = RG
White Balance (B) = 86
White Balance (R) = 60
Duration=60 Sec

Some info from the AutoStakkert .as3: 
Median quality 47493.93 ( quantiles 44623.12, 47493.93, 50334.04 ) 
Frame count 3425
  _quality_gradient_laplace                                       
True  _quality_gradient_local                                         
True  _stack_type                                                     
png  _stack_frames_percentage_1                                      
45  _stack_normalize_stack                                          
True  _stack_normalize_stack_independant_rgb                          
False  _stack_normalize_stack_percentage                               
80  _stack_sharpened                                                
False  _stack_rgb_align                                                
True  _stack_filename_ri_drizzle15                                    
Drizzle15

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Jupiter 10-02-2022 with C8, Marc Dickinson