P.S. I am extremely baffled as to why this has happened..
P.S. 2 I got the C9,25 fairly well collimated regardless of the bad seeing!
The forecasts for this night seemed nearly ideal. Meteoblue as well as Unisys & Wundermap data all pointed to a night of very good conditions. Naked eye examinations of stars at zenith showed little or no twinkling and stars at 30-ish elevations showed a slight calm wobble. Early in the night collimation tests of the telescope showed average to good conditions but the true shocker came in the early morning hours. This must be amongst the worst conditions I have ever imaged! A washed out, soft and nearly feature-less Jupiter! Mars, a bright orange wobbling mess that was so bad it was almost impossible to tune the ADC correctly. Never the less, here are the images.
P.S. I am extremely baffled as to why this has happened.. P.S. 2 I got the C9,25 fairly well collimated regardless of the bad seeing!
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It has been two whole months. After battling poor weather and saharan dust attackes, the skies cleared a bit yesterday to allow the possibility of imaging. After spending the first part o the night attempting to fine tune collimation on the telescope, the early morning hours were spent on observing Jupiter. Now a healthy 42" across, the giant offers a wealth of detail to be observed. The seeing was fair to poor for these captures however and the transparency was also poor as I did notice I was imaging through a veil of thin cirrus clouds, illuminated by the nearly full Moon. I also had a chance to test out the ADC/Barlow combo I put together and happy to report it seems to be doing it's job very well indeed.
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