LS60 2nd Light

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Second light with different settings to allow prominences and disk viewing.

Captured in Lucam Recorder, aligned and stacked in Autostakkert 2 and processed in CS5.

Processed according to Ken Crawford.

LS60THaCPT/1200 first Light

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This is the first light with the new Lunt LS60 and the new (used) DMK41AU, on Aug 24th at around 11:00 UT.

Captured in Lucam Recorder with these settings @15fps:

exposure time: 7.90 ms

gain: 2.87

gamma: 1.7

Aligned & stacked in Autostakkert 2 and processed in CS5 (mosaic of 2 images).

LS60HaPTC

Just got my new LS60HaPTC last Monday, Aug 20.
Boy what a piece of engineering...
Excellent finish and design!

I had my first light yesterday, around 16:00 UT and was I amazed. Tuning the scope proved a bit difficult at first but eventually I got it. What a beautiful sight... the prominences were right on the disc's edge, clearly visible; the filaments too.
The seeing was good enough and I pushed it up to 62x (2x barlow and a 24mm Panoptic EP).

In one word: Awesome!

Time to experiment with the DMK41AU02.AS now...

M27 - 20120716

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M27 - 20120716 @00h18-01h20 UTC
FS102NSV f/8 (FL:832mm) + ST2k XM + AO8
6x 600"
Astronomik IIc Luminance

After a long long cloudy season, dusting off was pretty easy...

Still May 25th Saturn

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Reprocessed the May 25th picture and made Crepe ring visible and disc colors more vivid.

Saturn 20120525

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Sky transparency was much better but seeing was not as good as the previous evening.

Fitswork and CS5

RGB 15fps best 70% of 1200 frames per channel.

Saturn 20120524

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Finally a good seeing evening, though a little hazy and moist.

Time to dust off, after a wierd winter & spring around here.

C11 f/30; DMK21AF icx618; RGB Astronomik IIc

Leiria, PT @ 01:45 UT