Day: 11 January 2025

Viewing Report 3rd December 2024 Teide

After 2 nights of cloud tonight, night 4, it is lovely and clear. I am suffering from a cold, however I have setup and been imaging since 7:45pm. I have started with the 100 Esprit and placed the new Askar C1 (Ha +OIII) filter in place. I slewed to the California nebula and rotated the camera to fit the object diagonally across the chip as it is larger than my field of view. I plan on taking 2 hours with the C1 filter before I switch to the C2 (SII + OII) filter

Above is a single exposure of 300s

I managed to complete the imaging run then I tried to process but not with much luck. Fortunately I have a good set of friends who can process narrowband images and here is what they did!

This image above from Tim Powell

This image above from Dave Boddington

This image above also from Dave Boddington

This image above from Nigel Davison

This image above also from Nigel Davison

They are all great and I am so happy with what my friends have done with my data

🙂

Viewing Report 2nd January 2025

16:09 – 02:15

Planets tonight with the Mak180.

I then went on and imaged beautiful Venus as a half crescent.

Next up was Saturn and the faint and vaguely tilted rings.

Then I moved onto Jupiter capturing the great red spot GRS in the process.

Last on my list and slightly low at this time of night was Mars.

I could see Syrtis Major even through the turbulent air.

A good night even at this point. I then packed away the travel setup and the Mak180 and opened the dome. However, due to problems with the ASI1600MM camera cooler I did not really get anything done. I also had power problems with he noise creating in which last time I saw this was the PSU itself. I will investigate tomorrow and replace the PSU as needed. The ASI1600MM is beyond repair from a coping perspective. I’m not going to pay to have it fixed, instead I have decided to keep it as a guider with the APS-C chip which is much better than the tiny chips that come with the ZWO planetary cameras. It will work perfectly on the new ONAG On Axis Guider I have just purchased to replace my friends one he lent me.